On the balcony, both old and young sat down.

Although Chen Yi was suspicious of Lou Meiying, out of respect for the old man, he did not deliberately target her, hoping to get more clues about Gao Xiaofei by knocking on the side.

"Just from ...... Let's start talking before the fire breaks out. Chen Yi nodded.

Lou Meiying sighed deeply, she didn't want to remember it in her heart, and she could only continue the topic helplessly at this moment: "That's ...... When Xiaofei was in elementary school. ”

Elementary school?

Chen Yi was slightly stunned and interrupted: "Ms. Lou, are you mistaken? The fire broke out at the time of the junior high school. ”

"Junior high school?" Lou Meiying was at a loss, "That should be junior high school, I can't remember too clearly." ”

Chen Yi paid attention to Lou Meiying's expression reaction, it was not like pretending, the fire was the most unforgettable memory, and he would not mistake the time.

Be...... Are there any symptoms of Alzheimer's disease?

The spirit has received a major blow, and the mood swings are violent, which will lead to abnormal psychological states for a long time, and may have problems such as memory impairment and induce Alzheimer's disease.

Judging from Lou Meiying's state, it is still relatively normal, even if there are signs of Alzheimer's disease, it is not too serious.

Chen Yi didn't care, and said: "It's indeed junior high school, and Gao Xiaofei was more rebellious at that time. ”

Lou Meiying: "Oh...... I remembered it, I remembered it out of order, it was junior high school, and it was Hao Hao who went to elementary school. ”

Hao Hao is Gao Xiaofei's younger brother.

Chen Yi judged that the reason why Gao Xiaofei became rebellious, the younger brother should occupy a certain proportion of the reason, this is not patriarchy, but the preference for the younger son, and the gender is the same, it is difficult for a two-child and three-child family to have a bowl of water, mainly depends on how the parents deal with it.

A child's heart is very sensitive.

"What was the cause of the fire at that time?" Chen Yi asked.

Lou Meiying: "It was Haohao's birthday, maybe the candle caught fire, and the fire said that the candle burned first." ”

Chen Yi: "Where did it burn?" ”

Lou Meiying: "I remember it was the living room. ”

Chen Yi: "It's night, right?" ”

Lou Meiying: "Yes. ”

Chen Yi began to automatically build a 3D model of the fire in his mind, and after everyone fell asleep at night, the candles in the living room began to burn, and the fire began to spread due to accidental factors.

When Gao Xiaofei's parents found out that there was a fire in their home, they could no longer control the fire, and the whole family except Gao Xiaofei died in the fire.

Then the question arises, how do the candles burn out of thin air, after the birthday everyone sleeps, someone must have lit the candle.

Most likely, it is Gao Xiaofei.

The picture changed, in the middle of the night, Gao Xiaofei walked out of the bedroom to the living room, sat there and lit the birthday candle, very sad.

Why be sad?

Parents care about their younger brother and don't care about themselves, but parents celebrate their younger brother's birthday but don't celebrate it for themselves?

"When Xiaofei celebrates her birthday, will the whole family celebrate her?" The picture ended, and Chen Yi asked.

Lou Meiying: "When I was young, I lived every year, and I was with them, but then I didn't know. ”

Chen Yi: "How young was when you were young, before junior high school?" ”

Lou Meiying: "Almost." ”

Chen Yi: "Who lit the candle burning at night?" ”

Regarding this question, Lou Meiying was silent for a few seconds and said, "Haohao." ”

Chen Yi: "How do you know?" ”

Lou Meiying: "Xiaofei said that she didn't order it, it must be Haohao, children like to play with fire." ”

Chen Yi: "Then what if Gao Xiaofei lied?" ”

Gao Xiaofei was a rebellious girl back then, and she must be very skilled in falsehood, let alone rebellious, even if she is a child with excellent character and learning, there is no guarantee that what she said is the truth.

Lou Meiying turned her head to look at Chen Yi: "Young man, is it still meaningful to ask who lit the candle now?" The fire has already broken out, and it doesn't matter whose fault the sister and brother are. ”

Chen Yi looked at her: "It makes sense, Gao Xiaofei is still alive and has grown up." ”

Lou Meiying looked puzzled, as if she didn't understand what Chen Yi wanted to express.

Chen Yi doesn't know if Lou Meiying's acting skills are good or has nothing to do with this case, the police can't be swayed by emotions in the process of trial and error, and they must be ruthless.

To put it bluntly, Lou Meiying has lived for most of her life, and she has eaten more salt than she has walked, if she is really a suspect in this case, it is not easy to deal with.

"If it was Gao Xiaofei who caused the fire, do you hate her?" Chen Yi put forward his hypothesis.

Lou Meiying still didn't understand Chen Yi's intentions, and when the other party was chatting, she shifted her gaze to look out the window, and said: "It's all children, I don't hate it, Haohao or Xiaofei, fate, it has nothing to do with them." ”

Chen Yi hesitated and gave up his plan to deceive Lou Meiying.

The brief conversation yielded little information, but one important thing was that Lou Meiying seemed to suspect that Gao Xiaofei had caused the fire.

The word doubt is very subtle, and one step forward is to be sure, maybe Lou Meiying already knew that it was Gao Xiaofei who lit the candle, but she lied and said it unclear and didn't matter.

He continued to talk to Lou Meiying about the fire.

"How did Gao Xiaofei escape at that time?"

Lou Meiying closed her eyes, and tears welled up in the corners of her eyes: "It was his father who rescued her, her bedroom was closest to the door, and after being rescued, her father ran back to save the mother and son at home, and the three of them didn't come out again." ”

As soon as these words came out, the atmosphere fell silent.

A father is a father after all, even if there are biases in life that are unavoidable, but in an emergency, he will not hesitate to save his daughter.

Sons and daughters are the same, they are both children, there is no difference, he can exchange his life for the peace of his sister and brother.

can imagine that if the fire was caused by Gao Xiaofei, then when she saw her father saving herself without hesitation, and saw her father buried in the fire, how strong the remorse was in her heart.

As for lying......

It was a junior high school child's self-psychological protection under extreme panic and fear.

At this point, Chen Yi has a general inference about the whole incident.

Nine years ago, when Haohao's birthday came, the whole family bought cakes and candles to celebrate Haohao's birthday, and everyone was very happy, except for Gao Xiaofei.

Since Haohao was born, Gao Xiaofei has received less and less attention, she is angry, she is jealous, she hates this younger brother, and at the same time she is sad, her parents have not given her birthday for a long time.

Especially after she became more and more rebellious and disobedient, she felt that everyone around her did not like her, and everyone was prejudiced against her.

That night, Gao Xiaofei, who was sad and crying, couldn't sleep anymore, got up from bed in the middle of the night to the living room, lit the remaining candles, and remembered that her parents used to snuggle up to her and sing happy birthday songs to herself.

The fire broke out, Gao Xiaofei woke up from her sleep, the fire was already very big and uncontrollable, her father did not hesitate to pick her up and rush out of the fire, and used her body to resist the relentless fire, and finally Gao Xiaofei only suffered burns on her arm.

After Gao Xiaofei was safe, her father rushed into the fire again and never came out.

She regretted it, she broke down, she lied that the candle was not lit by herself.

Lou Meiying continued to raise Gao Xiaofei instead of her son.

Gao Xiaofei has had the experience of chronic iron poisoning, and there are many possibilities to be extended here.

The first possibility is that Lou Meiying didn't know that the fire was caused by Gao Xiaofei, but she had suspicions and couldn't accept the death of her family, so she transferred her anger to Gao Xiaofei, and used diet to poison Gao Xiaofei for a long time, and she didn't kill her.

The second possibility is that Lou Meiying didn't know that the fire was caused by Gao Xiaofei, but she had suspicions and couldn't accept the death of her family, so she transferred her anger to Gao Xiaofei, and used diet to poison Gao Xiaofei with iron for a long time, and finally replaced it with trivalent arsenic to kill her.

The third possibility, Lou Meiying didn't know that the fire was caused by Gao Xiaofei at first, but later found out that she was very angry, and used diet to poison Gao Xiaofei's iron for a long time.

The fourth possibility, Lou Meiying didn't know that the fire was caused by Gao Xiaofei at first, but later she was very angry when she found out, and used her diet to poison Gao Xiaofei iron for a long time, just a punishment, but she never thought of killing her.

The fifth possibility, Lou Meiying did not suspect Gao Xiaofei, chronic iron poisoning and arsenic poisoning have nothing to do with her, and the grandparents get along very harmoniously.

The sixth possibility......

There are many possibilities, and the thought flashed through Chen Yi's mind, and he finally found that he couldn't judge which possibility was more likely for a while.

"What do you think, what happened to Gao Xiaofei's death?" Chen Yi changed the subject and stopped talking about the fire.

Lou Meiying shook her head: "Half of the person who is buried in the soil, what can I know?" I don't know what Xiaofei is doing outside, I'm really worried about whether she has become ...... Same as when I was a kid. ”

Chen Yi understood what the other party meant, bad junior high school and bad college are two concepts, the former is at most limited to the campus and is pointed at by the elders, while the latter develops and will be much more serious.

But these things have been investigated very clearly by the Suicheng police, Gao Xiaofei has no interpersonal relationships outside of school, she is an ordinary senior student whose parents are dead, and she has not had a big grudge against anyone.

Whether it is a roommate or a cousin, they only stay at the level of contradictions, talking about murder...... Not really.

"Do you know how Gao Xiaofei died?" Chen Yi asked.

Lou Meiying: "Didn't you say that you died of poisoning?" ”

Chen Yi: "Do you know what poison?" ”

Lou Meiying shook her head.

Chen Yi: "Which village is your hometown?" ”

Lou Meiying: "Nanshuiyang Village." ”

Chen Yi knows that this place is not far from the city, about an hour and a half by car.

"What kind of drugs were more toxic in the countryside before?" He continued to speak.

Lou Meiying is like a few treasures: "Rats are strong, paraquat, dichlorvos, arsenic ......"

When he heard arsenic, Chen Yi captured the change in Lou Meiying's expression and found nothing abnormal.

Chen Yi: "Are these things still sold?" ”

Lou Meiying: "I don't know, maybe there is, I haven't been back for a long, long time since I moved to the city." ”

Chen Yi nodded slightly and chatted: "It's been very difficult to take Gao Xiaofei alone for so many years, right?" ”

Lou Meiying sighed: "Hey, what's the difficulty, I have to raise her well, and my daughter usually comes to see me, but fortunately, Xiaofei is very competitive and admitted to college, and she is about to graduate......"

In the end, Lou Meiying couldn't suppress her emotions and burst into tears.

On the other side of the kitchen, her daughter heard Lou Meiying's crying and walked over quickly, frowning when she saw her mother's emotions a little out of control.

"Comrade policeman, do you want to eat at home in the evening? I went out to buy some food. ”

Chen Yi knew that this was going to be a send-off.

He stood up.

"No, thank you very much, can I go to Ms. Lou's room and have a look?"

The woman's attitude was indifferent: "Whatever." ”

After speaking, she squatted down to comfort Lou Meiying, and gradually both women began to cry.

Chen Yi didn't care, every case is a process that must be experienced in the face of the victim's family, as Zhou Yebin once said, don't empathize, just investigate the case, and use yourself as a tool to investigate the case, and the suffering in the world will never come to an end.

At least not while everyone is alive at the moment.

There is no suffering in the world, that is too beautiful a vision.

When they came to Lou Meiying's room, Chen Yi took the gloves handed by Qin Fei, and at this time, Zhuge Cong and the others had already left Gao Xiaofei's bedroom and walked in.

The room was somewhat cramped to accommodate seven people, and Xia Lan and Lin Chen stayed outside.

"Did you find anything?"

Chen Yi looked at the room furnishings, occasionally rummaged through animal objects, and asked casually.

Zhuge Cong replied: "No, everything is normal." ”

Chen Yi didn't speak again, and looked and checked as he walked.

There are years, there is warmth, it is very tidy, and there are several old photos hanging on the wall, which are photos with family.

Chen Yi walked over, and there was a group photo of the Gao family, as well as a group photo of the Gao family, including Shi Yiqing's parents.

Lou Meiying has a son and a daughter, one died in the fire, and now only the one outside is left.

In the photo, everyone is smiling happily, but unfortunately it is now fragmented.

"Team Chen, Lou Meiying...... Did you find anything? Cheng Hanjun asked in a low voice from behind.

Chen Yi shook his head: "Not for the time being, there is something wrong with the accuracy of Lou Meiying's memory, but the reaction is quite normal, about the fire, it is very likely that it has something to do with Gao Xiaofei." ”

Several people's eyes were slightly condensed.

If the fire has anything to do with Gao Xiaofei, then Lou Meiying's motives are very sufficient.

"Do you want to ...... Bring it back for trial? Zhuge Cong hesitated.

Chen Yi waved his hand: "Forget it, it's not that step yet, today is just a preliminary understanding, let's go." ”

It is common for police officers to not be treated equally.

Several people walked out of the bedroom and prepared to leave, Chen Yi walked at the back and thanked Shi Yiqing's mother.

The door closed slowly, Chen Yi subconsciously turned around, and when the door was not completely closed, he had a final brief look with Shi Yiqing's mother through the narrow crack in the door.

In less than a second, the door closed completely, but Chen Yi's eyes narrowed.

Just now, the sadness and helplessness in Shi Yiqing's mother's eyes disappeared in an instant, and was replaced by a gloom that came over her face.

This kind of gaze is very familiar, and Chen Yi has seen it in many criminals.

It was just a feeling, but his focus began to shift.

When he came downstairs, Chen Yi habitually took out a cigarette and lit it, and glanced back at the floor where Lou Meiying's house was located, thoughtfully.

"Team Chen, what's wrong?" Qin Fei spoke.

Chen Yi took two puffs of cigarette and said, "Shi Yiqing's mother seems to have a problem. ”

Several people were surprised when they heard this, looked at each other, and all looked up at the floor they had just visited.

Shi Yiqing's mother?

She doesn't seem to have much to do with this case.

Zhuge Cong hurriedly asked, "Team Chen, what's the problem?" ”

Chen Yi: "It's the change in the eyes. ”

Zhuge Cong didn't understand.

Chen Yi continued: "Gao Xiaofei's past is a weak point in the investigation, and her elders are also weak points in the investigation. ”

"Go back to the city bureau first, Zhuge Cong, go and transfer the information of Shi Yiqing's family to be as detailed as possible."

Zhuge Cong: "Yes! ”

(End of chapter)