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Chapter 2 Wooden Wedges

When Wang Qin was 25 years old, she had a child out of wedlock. Her parents felt ashamed of her and asked her to take her son out to live alone.Since then, Wang Qin raised Wang Jingping alone, and the hardships are not difficult to imagine.

But what is gratifying is that his son Wang Jingping has always been very competitive and has excellent academic performance. He was admitted to a private school with a full scholarship in middle school. middle school.

Yin Hao deliberately left time for Wang Qin to calm down, but it didn't seem to have much effect.

Wang Qin still twitched from time to time, her eyes were cloudy and dull, and her eye sockets were red and swollen as if they were about to burst.Her hand holding the paper cup was trembling, and she kept repeating the same words back and forth.

"Seeing that the days are getting better every day, how could this happen? How could anyone want to harm him? Jingping is such a good person. I taught him since childhood that our family is different from other people's. Don't push yourself in everything, don't fight with others. Having conflicts, being well-behaved, and growing up healthy and healthy is my greatest hope for him. He has never had any grudges or enmities with others, and he has never even blushed and quarreled. How could anyone want to harm him..."

Yin Hao waited patiently for a moment, then carefully confirmed: "Auntie, are you sure Wang Jingping has never had conflicts with anyone? Or is there a conflict of interest?"

Wang Qin shook her head slowly.

Yin Hao said: "Then does your son have a girlfriend?"

Wang Qin still shook her head, but after a pause, she said, "I had one before, she was an intern teacher at the school, but that girl was too chatty and lively, I don't like it, Jing Ping broke up with her half a year ago."

Yin Hao: "Do you still remember the other party's name?"

Wang Qin thought for a while, besides being sad, a trace of disgust appeared on her face unconsciously: "It seems to be called Chen Qianyi."

Yin Hao whispered to Xiaosengzi to send the clue of Chen Qianyi to Cibin, and then continued to ask: "Then trouble you to recall again, has your son behaved abnormally recently?"

"Abnormal behavior? No. His work and rest are very regular. He gets up at 06:30 in the morning, goes out at 07:30, and arrives home at 10:30 every night during class. They are all with me, and there is no abnormal behavior."

After a pause, Wang Qin said again: "However, last night he was indeed a little abnormal. He didn't fold his shirt collar properly, he didn't wash the clothes he changed after taking a bath, and he didn't drink the chicken soup I made..."

Although Yin Hao did not agree that this was an abnormal behavior, he did not interrupt the sad and nagging mother.

At this time, Wang Qin said again: "There is one more thing, I don't know if it is abnormal, the children in the school fight, and he accidentally got hurt when he persuaded the fight, just at the corner of his mouth..."

When Wang Qin mentioned that her son was accidentally injured in trying to persuade a fight, she gradually became agitated again.

Yin Hao took a moment to ask the last question as a matter of routine: "Auntie, I'm sorry, please tell me where you were from 11:30pm to [-]:[-]am last night, please?"

Wang Qin nodded, not rejecting this question: "Where can I go with this leg? Although I have recovered a little now, it is still difficult to walk by myself, and I have to rest for a while after walking a few steps. Most of the time I still can't leave Driving a wheelchair. Jingping hired a part-time nanny for me in the community, she pushed me out for a walk at ten o'clock in the morning and three o'clock in the afternoon yesterday, and I stayed at home the rest of the time, you can ask her."

"Hey, if there is nothing wrong with my leg, I can go out to buy the medicine. Even if he goes to buy it and doesn't come home on time, I will go out to find him. Maybe it won't be..."

Yin Hao drove Wang Qin home with the stool.He hadn't entered the room when he picked up Wang Qin to identify the corpse, but now with Wang Qin's permission, he entered Wang Jingping's room to check.

Wang Jingping's bedroom is about ten square meters. The bed is against the wall, the bookcase is opposite, and the desk is near the window. Almost all the books are related to teaching.

There are no decorations, no paintings, no toys, it is completely a rigid and monotonous bedroom exclusively for nerds, so in such an environment, the picture pressed under the glass surface of the bedside table seems out of place.

It was a pencil sketch of a distant mountain.The paper is old and yellowed, and the strokes are childish and rough, like a random painting made in leisure time.In the black-and-white picture, only the tallest flower on the hillside in the distance is colored. The flower disc is yellow, with a little black in the middle.

Like wild chrysanthemums, or, sunflowers.

Yin Hao took a photo and saved it.

Wang Qin couldn't say anything about the origin of this painting, only that it had been kept there, they had never moved, and no one had moved the painting.

After leaving Wang Qin's house, Yin Hao and Xiao Dongzi went to the nanny's house to check the situation, and then went to the property center to copy the monitoring records of the community for the past two days and send them back to the police force.

Just after the end, Chai Lu sent the writer Xiao Jiu's address.

This writer, whose pen name is Xiao Jiu, was originally named Ji Shang.Ji Shang opened a B&B restaurant at No. [-] Shuixiu Road, Hongling Township, Zijiang District, called "Xianxiao".

The little stool said: "It seems that writing novels is just this person's amateur hobby. No wonder there is no popularity, he doesn't sign a contract, and he locks up articles as he likes."

Xianxiao's front desk girl's face is like a full moon, with a small mouth about the width of three fingers, wearing bright red lipstick.At this moment, her eyes were wide open, looking at Yin Hao and Deng Deng, her expression was a little puzzled and a little wary: "Why are you looking for our boss? He just got up and went downstairs to have dinner. This meeting should start to retreat and practice, and we usually don't see each other. Customers. If you have any questions, just tell me, whether to order a meal or a room? I have already stuck the lowest discount here, even if you see him, the price will not be lower. "

Yin Hao looked at the clock on the wall, it was a quarter past two in the afternoon: "Just woke up? Retreat?"

The girl raised her mouth, quite proudly: "Yes, our boss is a writer, and this store is just his side business. You don't understand the world of writers, and you don't know when inspiration comes. Once you come, the boss will sit down for a whole day without taking him downstairs, and no one will be seen when he comes.”

This employee is completely a blind personality cult. She probably doesn't know how bleak her boss's main business is, and she hasn't been half successful in this side business, so she dares to brag like this with a shy face.

Seeing that the girl couldn't stop babbling, Yin Hao had no choice but to directly reveal his identity: "We are the police, please inform your boss, Mr. Ji Shang, and trouble him to leave the customs temporarily and meet us."

The girl squinted her eyes: "Police? Can you show me the ID? Also, what happened to our boss?"

The small stool next to him couldn't hold back: "Why are you talking so much? Like you, if we were really guests, you would have been annoyed and left early in the morning."

The girl gave him a blank look: "I only talk to good-looking people! If you come alone, maybe I'll be dumb."

The little stool gasped in anger, and Yin Hao patted him on the shoulder while holding his ID to signal him to calm down: "Police officers cannot have conflicts with the masses, and what they said is right."

After being stabbed by his teammates, the little stool secretly rolled his eyes.

After carefully checking the documents, the girl jumped to the door leading to the backyard, raised her head to the side building, and shouted loudly: "Boss, the police are looking for you!"

Although it was the afternoon of a working day, there were still several tables of guests on the lawn in the courtyard drinking afternoon tea leisurely.

As soon as the girl said this, not only the guests in the courtyard, but also other service staff, as well as Yin Hao and the little stool couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.

Yin Hao thought to himself: "How heartless this boss named Ji Shang must be to be willing to hire such a nervous employee!"

After waiting for a while, the courtyard was still quiet and there was no reaction.

The girl put her hands around her mouth: "Boss...there are police..."

In the four-story white building on the side, a window on the top floor was pushed open.

Yin Hao saw from a distance a thin man in light clothes, with white skin that seemed to have turned on soft light effects, lazily leaning against the window, and his voice was tired: "Little mud, why don't you just shout with the loudspeaker, the boss, run away!" , the police are here to arrest you."

There was a burst of sparse laughter from the guests downstairs.

Little Mud said sincerely: "Boss, maybe I didn't come to arrest you, and I can't talk nonsense."

The white figure by the window shook his head helplessly: "Little mud, bring them here."

"The fourth floor is the boss's private space, and the lower three floors are guest rooms. We have various styles of rooms here, including Hawaiian, American, Chinese, European, family, honeymoon, and fun rooms. The two police officers will organize activities in the future. Consider coming for a leisurely night, I will give you the lowest discounted price."

Little Niba took the two police officers up to the fourth floor, and at the same time, he did not forget to help his homestay do sales work.

After pouring a glass of water for Yin Hao and Xiaosengzi, Xiao Niba left.

The decoration style of this floor is minimalist, light colors, warm colors, comfortable and warm.The suite on the fourth floor has about three or four rooms, and there is an open terrace outside the living room, where some flowers and plants are grown.

Yin Hao walked outside the terrace. Among the flowers and plants, there were no sunflowers in season.

There is a camera on the top of the outer wall, which is located at a high position and has a wide viewing angle. Not only can it capture the entire terrace, but the courtyard downstairs and the front hall should all be within the monitoring range.

Yin Hao was observing and calculating the monitoring coverage area downstairs, when he heard the little stool clear his throat several times very deliberately and heavily.

Yin Hao came back to his senses, turned around and looked into the room.

The figure who had glimpsed downstairs a moment ago finally appeared clearly in front of Yin Hao.

Ji Shang was wearing a loose white top and beige long trousers, with his hands in his trouser pockets, he was looking at Yin Hao thoughtfully.

When the eyes of the two met, Ji Shang narrowed his eyes, as if he was thinking about something, but also a little bit confused.

Yin Hao was also taken aback here, because the person in front of him suddenly gave him a sense of deja vu, but after he tried his best to think, his memory was still empty.

Ji Shang realized that he had lost his composure faster than Yin Hao, and the expression he showed just now disappeared quickly, and then he held out a hand to Yin Hao with a faint smile: "I'm sorry, I've been waiting for a long time Yes, Officer Yin."

Yin Hao raised his eyebrows, he hadn't introduced himself yet, but the other party knew his last name.

Ji Shang seemed to be able to hear the confession in his subconscious, and then withdrew his hand, shrugged and said: "I saw you in the hot search, the most handsome policeman in Yunpan City, many people want to be arrested by you."

Yin Hao smiled and followed Ji Shang into the house.

Fang sat down, and Ji Shang said: "The two police officers really came to arrest me, right? I don't seem to have done anything bad."

At this moment, for some reason, Yin Hao couldn't stop, and he was still thinking about when and where he had seen the man in front of him.

The little stool saw that Yin Hao was a little dull, so he quickly answered: "Mr. Ji, it is like this. There was a murder case in our jurisdiction, and the modus operandi was very similar to what was described in one of your novels. Our routine investigation, not only It's you, we will screen anyone who has clicked on that novel."

Everyone has curiosity. Under such circumstances, most people would ask which novel it is, but Ji Shang just smiled: "Fortunately, my novels have very low hits, otherwise you would be busy."

"Yes, yes." The little stool nodded in agreement, and felt that he was a little bit worse after reacting.

However, Ji Shang didn't seem to care, and said again: "Which time period do you want me to provide an alibi for?"

Yin Hao said: "From 11:30 last night to four o'clock in the morning today."

Ji Shang stood up: "Two police officers, please come with me, I will call out yesterday's surveillance for you to see."

After finishing speaking, Ji Shang laughed again: "Fortunately, if this time period is an hour earlier, I will have to spend time explaining it."

Ji Shang called out the monitor and set the time to 5:5 the night before. About [-] minutes later, Ji Shang appeared in the front hall area, and about [-] minutes later, Ji Shang appeared on the fourth-floor terrace.

Then the screen switched to the interior, and Ji Shang entered the study at a quarter past twelve.In the following time, he occasionally typed, raised his head and closed his eyes to relax from time to time, paralyzed on the beanbag sofa for a while, or scratched his ears and cheeks and pressed his temples, but he never left except when he went downstairs to look for food twice in the middle of the night. through the study.

Because Ji Shang's novel could no longer be read, before leaving, Yin Hao asked him if he could copy a copy of the electronic file to the police.

Ji Shang was turning off the monitoring screen in front of the computer. When he heard the title of the book, his whole body froze uncontrollably. Although he tried his best to control it, this subtle reaction was still noticed by Yin Hao who was standing behind him.

Yin Hao asked: "What's the matter? Is there a problem?"

Ji Shang turned his head, with a calm expression on his face: "Although the novel "The Girl in the Burning Flower Field" was posted on the Internet three years ago, it was actually written earlier. The article is only half written. Can you find it?"

Yin Hao asked, "Where is the source of inspiration?"

Ji Shang sneered: "It's a nonsense fabrication."

Yin Hao didn't continue to ask, but left his contact information to Ji Shang, asking him to find the manuscript and contact him.

After going downstairs, Yin Hao checked Ji Shang's movements that night with the staff on duty the night before, and the witnesses matched the monitoring, and the two drove away.

Inside the car, the little stool who was taking a nap suddenly sighed; "Although one suspect has been ruled out, it also means that one useful clue is missing."

"You should think like this. It's because there is one less misunderstanding, and one distraction has been ruled out." After Yin Hao said this, he felt that he seemed too sure, and then said: "Do you think Ji Shang is a bit strange?"

The little stool still closed his eyes: "What's so strange? His alibi is so perfect, so why doubt it!"

"I can't tell, but I just feel something is wrong."

The little stool opened his eyes and sat up straight suddenly, as if he had a flash of inspiration: "The biggest thing wrong is that Ji Shang, a big man, even remembered the face and name of a hot searched guy of the same sex two months ago! And he only took the initiative to shake hands with you Yes, even though you didn't respond to him!"

Yin Hao didn't remember Ji Shang's move at all: "Did he do it?"

The little stool gave Yin Hao a ghostly smile: "Not only that, he also said that he wanted to be arrested by you."

Yin Hao was taken aback, then smiled and said, "Are you sure he said that?"

The little stool nodded again and again: "Of course I said it, I heard it with my own ears."

This guy doesn't seem to be sleepy any more, he sighed to himself: "Sure enough, men who write danmei are not straight! Fortunately, you are a straight man of steel, otherwise you didn't get any clues today, and you almost sent a policeman to the police!" Tiger's mouth. Then I can't deal with those aunts when I go back to the police station!"

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