Card Room

Chapter 76 Chapter 9

This sentence from Yu Xinxin shocked Xiao Lou—she heard a clear cough, which means that more than Liu Yuming was alone in the toilet last night!

Xiao Lou looked at her with a smile and continued to ask, "Xinxin, can you be sure when you hear the cough?"

Yu Xinxin crooked his head and thought, saying, "It should be 3:10. I was back in the toilet after going to the toilet, and I looked up at the time on the car screen."

Xiao Lou quickly picked up the pen and paper and wrote down this key message.

He then asked, "What's next? Did you hear or see anything?"

Yu Xinxin said, "The grandma seems to be very ill. I coughed for a while, and the sound was getting farther and farther away from me. I couldn't hear it. But it was strange that after the grandma went away, there seemed to be a dark shadow in the dining car. Go in the direction of the car. "

Xiao Lou Wen said, "How tall is that shadow? Fat or thin? Do you remember?"

Yu Xinxin carefully recalled for a few seconds and said, "It should be quite thin, anyway, it's not fat! I don't see how tall it is."

"Then?" Xiao Lou looked at her and asked, "Is anyone else going to the toilet?"

"Yes! After a few minutes, um ... around three-thirty, I saw the light on the side of No. 6 car. The light was very obvious, and there was a strange sound from the trash can."

Xiao Lou was startled, the obvious light, this should be Liu Yuming holding the charging lamp to the toilet, the whole group only he brought the charging lamp.

When I asked before, Liu Yuming said that he went to the toilet at three o'clock in the middle of the night, but the little girl said three-thirty. There was a half-hour time lag—the child would not lie, apparently Liu Yuming was at lie!

"Uncle, shouldn't there be mice in the carriage?" The little girl raised her head seriously.

"There were no mice in the car. Someone may have accidentally touched the trash can." Xiao Lou smiled softly and asked, "How long did that sound last?"

"Just a few seconds." Yu Xinxin said with a smile, "I was still thinking whether the rats were eating in the trash, someone got up in the middle of the night to catch mice!"

Xiao Lou touched the child's head and said, "Are you seeing anything other than your voice?"

Yu Xinxin said, "Soon, the sound of the trash can sounds, and the two toilets in compartment 6 are lit with red lights."

On the moving car, there will be a toilet reminder on the top of the compartment. When the toilet is empty, the green light is no one. When someone enters the toilet and locks the door, it will turn red.

There are many passengers in the carriage. This setting is also for the convenience of passengers to determine whether the toilet is free. If you want to go to the toilet and see that the two toilets on the top of the carriage are both occupied, you can wait for someone to go.

Unexpectedly, this simple light reminder has become the key clue of the case!

The little girl said that after the light was turned on, a strange noise came from the trash can, followed by a change in the two toilets, indicating that when Liu Yuming went to the bathroom, there was another person who entered the toilet opposite him.

There were two people in the bathroom at the time. Liu Yuming didn't mention it at all.

Xiao Lou then asked, "Both toilets are red lights. Which side turned green first?"

The little girl said, "The toilet on the left quickly turns into a green light. The old man holding the lamp has gone away, and the red light on the right has been for a long time. Someone may be having a diarrhea!"

When Yu Xinxin's mother heard this, her face couldn't help but get nervous. "Is something wrong with car # 6? Why do you keep asking my daughter about the situation at midnight yesterday?"

Xiao Lou gave her a reassuring look, saying "Nothing serious, just an old man lost valuable jewelry, we need to investigate carefully and find the thief." He looked at the child, Wen Yan said, "Xin Xin also hates thieves. Right? So tell your uncle what you see and hear, okay? "

Xiao Lou coaxed the children into a set, with a kind and gentle smile. The child Yu Xinxin liked the uncle of the flight attendant very much. In order to cooperate with the thief, she very actively spoke out what she knew--

"I couldn't sleep after finishing the toilet last night. Everyone else in the compartment was sleeping. I just sat in my seat and watched the stars outside."

"After the person holding the lamp left, suddenly there were a lot of meteor showers out of the window, but they are beautiful! I have been watching the meteor showers. After ten minutes, there was a hurried footstep over the No. 6 car. I did not see It's clear, but the man walked near the dining car, didn't go to the toilet, and suddenly turned back. Then, the toilet door on the right opened, and the light turned green. "

"It was around 3:40, and there were two coughs in the carriage, and then I was sleepy and fell asleep."

Xiao Louyun wrote like a pen, and wrote down her answer without fail.

Yu Xinxin looked at him curiously and asked, "Uncle, what I said can help you?"

Xiao Lou smiled softly. "Xinxin is great. What you said is very useful. We will definitely catch the thief."

Yu Xinxin smiled and narrowed her eyes. "That's good!"

Later, she fell asleep and didn't know. Seeing nothing else, Xiao Lou asked Yu Xinxin's mother to hold her back, and Yu Xinxin waved to Xiao Lou, "Goodbye uncle!"

Xiao Lou said goodbye to the little girl. He turned and walked in the direction of No. 6 car, but at halfway, Zhou Zheng in row 8 suddenly stopped with an ugly expression, and whispered in his ear, "Is Car No. 6 dead?"

Xiao Lou turned back unexpectedly, and said softly, "How do you know?"

Zhou Zheng took out his mobile phone and showed Xiao Lou a WeChat from his girlfriend Mo Jiaran——

There is a long list of WeChat records in the mobile phone. "An old man in Car No. 6 died. The flight attendant locked the car door to prevent anyone from going out. It was scary to check all the passengers' luggage one by one!"

Zhou Zheng "What's going on? How could it be dead?"

Mo Jiaran "I don't know. Listen to some people talking about a heart attack or something. The elderly tour group is very nervous. I don't want to stay in the No. 6 carriage. Can you come and pick me up ?! "

Zhou Zheng comforted, "Don't worry, I ask the flight attendants."

He retracted his mobile phone and whispered to Xiao Lou, "Can I let my girlfriend sit back in the No. 4 carriage? She is scared there alone, and I'm not assured."

Xiao Loudao "Sorry, we are still investigating, we can't let anyone leave for the time being. You do n’t have to preach outside, send a text message to tell her, let her stay in her room at ease, this matter has nothing to do with her, we will not embarrass her of."

Zhou Zheng frowned and said, "Okay."

He had a headache, worried that he couldn't convince the young lady. Xiao Lou was also afraid of the trouble of the young lady. She simply went to the No. 6 carriage and went to the room where Mo Jiaran was. She comforted her and said, "Miss Mo, don't worry, our investigation will come to fruition soon. When you want to return, We will not stop you in carriage 4. "

Mo Jiaran nodded pale.

Xiao Lou turned to the flight attendant's office in car number 6, Yu Hanjiang was frowning, looking at the logbook full of testimonies.

The two eyes were opposite, and Yu Hanjiang stood up and said, "Professor Xiao, sit down."

Xiao Lou smiled and shook his head. "It's all right, Yu team sit down, I have Yu Xinxin's testimony here, let me show you."

He closed the door of the office, leaned at the table, and took Yu Hanjiang's testimony to examine Mrs. Mei's testimony and looked carefully.

The office was quiet, and both were watching each other's results.

This case is more complicated than expected.

After a few seconds, Yu Hanjiang sitting in his seat suddenly picked up his pen and drew a plan view of the carriage on the book.

He pointed at the map and said, "The dining car is in the middle, car 6 is on the left, and car 4 is on the right. Since the dining car does not have a toilet, it shares two toilets with car 6, which is located near the end of car 4. Yu Xinxin Is near the dining car, so she can clearly see the light cue at the top of the car. "

Yu Hanjiang followed by drawing the seat distribution of the elderly group. "Room 1, Room 2, and Room 3 are all far away from the toilet. They need to pass through the whole compartment to reach the toilet near the dining car."

Xiao Lou looked at the testimony in confusion, saying, "According to Xinxin's description, she heard a clear cough. Could this cough sound be Old Lady Mei? You wrote in the record that she had obvious asthma. Answer I can't help but cough when I have problems. "

Yu Hanjiang nodded and said, "It should be her. The murderer committed the crime in the middle of the night, and it was impossible to make too much movement for people to hear. In case the cough awakened other people, the other party opened the door to see the situation. Was it bad to be hit? So, only one An explanation—Mrs. Mei couldn't control the sound of coughing, and she did go to the toilet at night around three o'clock. "

Yu Hanjiang simply picked up the ballpoint pen and sorted out a timeline based on Yu Xinxin's testimony—

"At 2:00, Li Zhemin finished playing cards with the three old men in the same room and fell asleep together."

"At 3:10, Mrs. Mei got up to go to the toilet and made a coughing sound. Yu Xinxin also saw a personal figure appearing in the restaurant."

"At 3:30, Liu Yuming went to the toilet holding a light. The rattle came from the trash can for a few seconds. Another person entered the opposite toilet, and both toilets became red lights."

"At around 3:40, a person originally wanted to go to the bathroom, but walked halfway but hurriedly turned back. At this time, the other person in the bathroom finally came out, and the car coughed again. Yu Xinxin fell asleep afterwards."

The timeline is clearly organized.

However, with so many people going to the toilet in succession, Xiao Lou could not help but hold his temples with a headache—cough, lights, sounds near the trash can, hurried footsteps ...

It seems that the No. 6 carriage last night was really dark and turbulent!

Yu Hanjiang looked at the timeline arranged on the book and touched his chin and lost his thoughts.

After a while, he began to interpret the clues one by one. "3:10, there was a silhouette in the restaurant when the old lady went to the toilet. There was a possibility. At that time, the murderer was preparing to commit the crime, but suddenly he heard the old lady cough. Dodging the restaurant. "

Xiao Lou thinks this speculation is very reasonable, otherwise, in the middle of the night, what would he go to the restaurant for?

He agreed and said, "It makes sense. If it ’s just going to the toilet, it does n’t matter if you meet Mrs. Mei face to face. There is no need to hide in the restaurant unless there is a ghost in your heart. It seems that this person who hides in the restaurant is very May be the killer. "

Yu Hanjiang pointed to the third timeline: "Liu Yuming is lying, he deliberately confused the time, and the reason for looking for the watch is also made up-Xin Xin said, there is a strange sound coming from the trash can, only a few seconds, he cannot Find the watch in seconds. "

Xiao Lou nodded. "Yes, for a few seconds, it may be that someone accidentally bumped into the trash can under panic? This person might be the murderer who was hiding in the restaurant just now, and wanted to go back, but met Liu Yuming again. I had to rush into the toilet. "

Yu Hanjiang said, "When Liu Yuming went to the toilet at 3:30, the opposite toilet was also lit with a red light. Your analysis is reasonable-the person in the restaurant wanted to return to No. 6 car, but he ran into Liu Yuming and could only hide. The toilet. He stayed in the toilet until 3:40. "

Yu Hanjiang used the pen to circle several key points in the book "3:40. This time is very important. Three people appeared at the same time-the first one was hiding in the toilet. He felt safe outside and finally came out; another One was to go to the toilet and turned back halfway, probably seeing someone suddenly come out of the toilet, and hurriedly turned away. Then there was Old Lady Mei, who coughed again at night. "

Xiao Lou frowned and thought, saying, "Li Zhemin's death time should be after 3:40, so it seems that during the half hour of 3: 103: 40, many people in the elderly group got up to go to the toilet at night, causing the killer to keep going. I met other people ... He hid in the restaurant first, and then in the opposite toilet, but the last time he came out of the toilet, would he bump into Old Lady Mei? "

Xiao Lou pointed out a key point.

The person who is constantly hiding may well be the murderer.

Otherwise, there is no way to explain why he repeatedly avoided the acquaintances of the elderly group.

The last time Mrs. Mei got up at night, Xinxin was so asleep, she didn't see what happened afterwards. Did the murderer escape, or did he finally fail to escape and was found by the old lady?

If it is the latter, then Mrs. May is surely sheltering the killer.

Xiao Lou re-examined the testimony of these people and said, "Old Lady Mei and Niu Dapeng live in the same room. Niu Dapeng can know that Liu Yuming next door is using the lamp to go to the toilet. It is impossible to know that Old Lady Mei has also been to the toilet— —Niu Dapeng is deliberately hiding. "

Yu Hanjiang said, "Liu Yuming confused the night time and made up an excuse to go to the trash can to find a watch. He was also lying."

Xiao Loudao "Zheng Weiguo said he got up early in the morning to find an IOU from the deceased's pocket, apparently also lying."

Both of them squeezed their brows with headaches at the same time.

-Everyone is lying.

If it wasn't for Yu Xinxin, the timeline was reorganized, they would be fainted by the lies of these people.

Yu Hanjiang reluctantly said, "In this way, it is very likely that Mrs. Mei has sheltered the murderer, and Li Zhemin's popularity is too bad."

Xiao Lou took a deep breath and reorganized his thoughts. "At present, Liu Yuming and Mrs. Mei can be temporarily ruled out. Their appearance just alarmed the killer and made the killer hide. Then the killer may be in Niu Dapeng, Zheng Weiguo. Among them. Niu Dapeng is tall and fat. Xinxin said that the figure is thinner, and Zheng Weiguo is more likely? "

Zheng Weiguo owed a lot of gambling debts, secretly borrowed money and killed people, with sufficient motivation and sufficient time to commit the crime.

But why did he admit that he had stolen it? Now that the IOU has been destroyed, no one can find evidence if he does not admit it ...

Xiao Lou always felt that something was wrong.

At this moment, Yu Hanjiang suddenly closed his eyes. "I think the person who returned halfway to the toilet at 3:40 in the morning was Zheng Weiguo."

Xiao Lou was surprised. "Why do you say that?"

Yu Hanjiang looked to Xiao Lou and whispered and analyzed, "We can calculate this way. At 3:30, Liu Yuming went to the bathroom with a lamp. At that time, Zheng Weiguo, who was in the same room, might be awake. The other two were asleep, so he climbed out of bed and took the opportunity to take the IOU from Li Zhemin's pocket. "

"Liu Yuming came back to bed soon after going to the toilet. Zheng Weiguo listened to the movement in the room. After Liu Yuming fell asleep, he secretly got up and wanted to go to the toilet to flush the loan with water."

The lead for the IOU was never found.

The train is a completely closed compartment, the windows cannot be opened, and it is easy to be found by the flight attendants when it is thrown in the trash; it is burned with fire ... The train is completely non-smoking and fire ban. Once it is ignited, it will directly trigger the smoke alarm.

It's not safe to hide on your body or in your bag, and there is only one best way to completely destroy it: the toilet!

He shreds the note, throws it into the toilet, and flushes it with water to completely destroy the evidence.

Unexpectedly, when he got up the toilet, a person suddenly appeared on the other side of the toilet, so Zheng Weiguo was guilty of a thief and hurriedly turned back. As Yu Yu had speculated before, he ate the IOU directly into his mouth.

The Yu team's speculation is reasonable, otherwise, who would go to the toilet in the middle of the night and go back halfway?

From this point of view, it is unlikely that Zheng Weiguo was a murderer. He just stole the IOU and did not kill anyone. The murderer was the man who had been hiding in the restaurant before and had been hiding in the toilet since 3:40.

Not Zheng Weiguo, not Liu Yuming, or old lady Mei.

Xiao Loudao "seems to be Niu Dapeng? But ... Xinxin said that the shadow is very thin, Niu Dapeng is tall and fat."

At this point, his eyes suddenly flashed. "It seems that there is another person who has been ignored by us!"

Yu Hanjiang nodded solemnly, and whispered, "The first Aunt Shu Ping we have ruled out."

Xiao Lou's mind flashed Shu Ping's testimony--

Introduce her daughter to Li Zhemin's son. As a result, Li Zhemin called her daughter uneducated. She was angry, so she stole Li Zhemin's insulin and wanted to teach Li Zhemin. At that time, the two believed that if she was a murderer, she didn't need to steal insulin to add extra strength, and because she was only scolded by her daughter and had insufficient motivation to commit the crime, she was ruled out first.

Her testimony seemed plausible and eased her suspicions.

But there is one key.

Yu Hanjiang said coldly, "No one can testify to her testimony."

Niu Dapeng and Li Zhemin grabbed the managerial positions. After years of grievances, everyone can testify;

The case of Zheng Weiguo stealing a slip, Liu Yuming has seen the slip and can be used as a witness.

Li Yumin's first love, which Liu Yuming loved deeply, was pry into the corner. Most people knew that Mrs. Mei could also testify.

But who can testify what Shu Ping said?

Only the dead Li Zhemin knows the truth!

She said unilaterally that Li Zhemin scolded her daughter for being uneducated. She couldn't get used to it and wanted to get revenge. She only mentioned the contradiction between her and Li Zhemin, but no third person could witness it.

In fact, from the beginning, Shu Ping's testimony was the most unreliable!