However, regardless of whether Yuan Zhuang is Qin Jing'an or not, there are many doubts in every move he makes. This is an indisputable fact.
When Tian Chunda was deep in thought, Hong Xiangsong's sharp voice suddenly came from beside him.
"Captain Tian, didn't you find the footprints of the masked man in the ruins of Toyota Village? So, on the night when Zhu Wenwu was killed, was the masked man who stayed at the Baiwu Hotel still lingering in this area?
Why didn't you arrest him earlier? Who is that person? "
"Oh, we are also fully investigating this matter, but the other party is not an ordinary person.
After the suspicious Tian Sanping stayed in Xiping for one night, he left Xiping on the 13th and headed towards Nanguang. The masked man who stayed at the red-leaf cypress house on the night of the 15th must be this person. Mrs. Hong Xiangsong, Zuo Qing, I have asked you several times, do you really not know who this person is? "
Zuo Qing, who was wearing a mask, shook his head without saying a word, while Hong Xiangsong stared at Captain Tian in disbelief, and soon showed a bitter smile and said: "It's not easy for you to find out these things. By the way, Toyota Apart from the footprints of the masked man, is there anything else at the scene of the village?"
"Well... yes, he did leave a lot of things behind... I think there is something quite strange about it."
"What a strange method?"
"Everyone knows that Xin Youzhi was tied to a chair with his upper body naked. His chest and hands were all scratched by the rope. In other words, he was trying to break free from the rope, which is why he left these scars. Just judging from these scars, It’s difficult to see that the rope should have been tied quite loosely, but when we found the body, the rope was tied tightly to Xin Youzhi’s body, not even a little finger could go in.”
Hong Xiangsong kept staring at Tian Chunda, and after a while he asked in a very calm voice: "So, what is going on?"
"I don't know, but there is one more thing," Captain Tian took out a shirt from his briefcase.
"Mrs. Hong Xiangmei, is this Xin Youzhi's shirt?"
Hong Xiangmei looked at the shirt with tears in his eyes, and then nodded silently.
"Xin Youzhi's shirt has a very special feature. All five buttons on his shirt are inlaid with diamonds on a chrysanthemum-shaped gold base, but the top diamond button has fallen off.
Do you know when this button fell off? "
Hong Xiangmei shook his head and said, "I don't know. However, this button must have fallen off when Xin Youzhi went out. Because Xin Youzhi loves to look pretty, and if his shirt is missing a button, he will definitely not wear it out. Hey. ?Didn’t you find this button at the murder scene?”
"No. We've been looking for this button for a long time but haven't found it. By the way, could it be that he was responsible for Zhu Shi... Well, we wonder if it fell on the motorboat at that time? But we searched all over the motorboat and still couldn't find this button. I wonder if the button fell into the lake? If so, it will be impossible to find it."
At this moment, Host Zhiqing came in like a gust of wind and revealed a rather terrifying secret...
Host Zhiqing was very excited about his discovery, and his face was full of joy. He glanced at everyone, threw the cloth bag on the chair, and talked about it proudly.
"Everyone, I know the secret of Mr. Hong Li's will. The reason why Mr. Hong Li left so much inheritance to Miss Zhu Shi is not because she is the granddaughter of his benefactor; in fact, Miss Zhu Shi is Mr. Hong Li's own Granddaughter. In other words, Miss Zhu Shi’s mother is actually the daughter of Mr. Hong Li and his mistress.”
At first, everyone looked at Zhiqing in confusion. After a while, they suddenly understood what he wanted to say. At this time, everyone was shocked by this shocking truth. Zhu Shi's face turned blue and he looked like he would fall down at any moment, while Zuo Qing, who was wearing a mask, had his shoulders shaking.
It was the first time for Mrs. Hong Xiangsong, Hong Xiangzhu and Hong Xiangmei to hear this statement. They saw the three of them staring at Zhu Shi fiercely.
*******
Usually, the shore of Hongye Lake starts to freeze in mid-December, and after about mid-January, the ice on the shore is ready for skating; but if it is particularly cold that year, you can skate on the shore around the end of the year. .
This year happened to be a very cold year. As soon as mid-December entered, the lake shore behind the Red Leaf Hotel began to be covered with thick ice.
On the morning of December 13, the police discovered the gruesome body of the last victim of the Hong Li family in the ice near the lake!
At this time, Tian Chunda looked at the increasingly depressed and desolate scene by the lake, and his inner melancholy was invisibly increasing day by day.
Two months have passed since he accepted Lin Ruo's invitation to come to Hongye Valley. During these two months, three men were killed successively, and these three murder cases are still in a stalemate.
Although Tian Chunda felt strongly in his heart that the murderer was around him and right in front of everyone, there was always a speck of dust in his eyes, preventing him from clearly seeing the murderer's true face.
Tian Chunda was getting more and more irritable. Recently, he even began to feel that his heart could never settle down.
He wanted to simply re-read what had happened recently, and maybe he could find some clues in it, so he read his diary again and again, but the mysterious figure hidden behind the smoke screen always made it difficult for people to see his true face.
Although he has not yet seen the whole incident, the answer to the Hongli family's serial murders is already hidden in the events recorded in these diaries.
1. October 18th - He came to Hongye Valley at the invitation of Lin Ruo. Later, Zhu Shi encountered a shipwreck disaster and Lin Ruo was killed on the same day.
2. November 1st - Masked Zuo Qing returned to Hong Li's house, and lawyer Gu Gong announced Mr. Hong Li's will in front of Hong Li's family.
3. November 15th - Zhu Wenwu and Xin Youzhi suspected Zuo Qing's identity, so they went to Miyun Temple to retrieve Zuo Qing's handprints stored there (this matter was all due to Zhu Shi's extraordinary wisdom)
4. In the evening of the same day - Mrs. Hong Xiangsong and Zuo Qing refused to have their fingerprints stamped, and the family meeting broke up unhappy around ten o'clock.
5. At 11 o'clock in the evening on the same day - Zhu Shi called Zhu Wenwu to the observation tower and handed him a pocket watch with the fingerprints of the masked Zuo Qing on it (the whereabouts of the pocket watch are currently unknown, and may have sunk to the bottom of the lake.)
6. On the evening of the same day - Zhu Wenwu was killed. The murderer was estimated to have committed the crime between 11 and 12 o'clock.
7. Around eight o'clock in the evening of the same day - a masked man who called himself Tian Sanping stayed at the Kashiwaya Hotel in Lower Hongye. He left the hotel at around ten o'clock and returned to the hotel at about twelve o'clock. When he returned to the hotel, he looked embarrassed. appearance.
8. On the morning of November 16th - Yuan Zhuang found Zhu Wenwu's head on the platform where the chrysanthemum doll was placed. The murder scene was determined to be at the observation tower.
9. On the same day - Mrs. Hong Xiangsong and Zuo Qing volunteered to have their fingerprints stamped. This fingerprint matches the fingerprint retrieved from Miyun Temple, so it is determined that the masked Zuo Qing is the real Zuo Qing.
