Chapter 8 Chapter 7: A Mysterious Character Appears

"By the way, the key." Jiang Quan wiped his mouth with a towel, and returned the key to the ice cellar to Li Guozhong, "Now, should you go upstairs?" "Well. I think they should all have dinner and go back to their rooms now. Inspector Li, is he going up now?" "No, wait a little longer." Li Guozhong waved his hand and took a sip of tea: "It won't be too late for us to go up when the young man brings the things I asked them to investigate just now." "What did you ask them to investigate?" Wang Wei thought for a moment, then smiled and said, "It's the alibi of the other passengers that you asked Xiao Ziming and the others to investigate just now. Don't tell me I've forgotten it."

"Hehe... This is the way our police handle cases. We must investigate everything that should be investigated carefully. Although I also know that the key to this case lies in those members of the Chen family, I still have to make sure that everyone is on the case." What to do when you send out." "Boom boom boom..." Someone knocked on the door, Li Guozhong opened the door, and Xiao Ziming was standing outside holding a stack of papers.He glanced furtively into the room, and waved to Inspector Li, asking him to go to the corridor. "What are you doing?" Li Guozhong noticed something was wrong with him.

"It's nothing. This is the situation of the passengers on the ship that you asked us to investigate about five o'clock, Inspector Li, except for Mr. Wang Wei and Miss Jiang Quan from rooms 201 and 202." Xiao Ziming handed the investigation report in his hand to Li Guozhong, and then glanced at the room again: "We have roughly checked it. At five o'clock, everyone is on the deck outside the church behind the ship." Li Guozhong nodded, flipping through two pieces of paper casually: "Now, there's nothing else to do, you can go back and rest first, I will come to you again if there is something to do."

"Yes!" Xiao Ziming stood at attention and saluted, then turned to leave. "Inspector Li, are you sure that Mr. Wang and Miss Jiang have nothing to do with this case?" "what happened?" Li Guozhong suddenly raised his head: "What do you mean by what you just said?" "Yes, that's how it is..." He leaned back a few more steps, and then said in a low voice, "During dinner just now, I saw Miss Jiang walking past the ice cellar at the bottom of the ship." "What?! What did you see?" Li Guozhong couldn't help being shocked. After he stabilized his emotions, he deliberately lowered his voice and asked, "What did you just say? Be more specific."

"Yes, that's how it is..." Xiao Ziming licked his lips and said: "During dinner just now, the captain asked me to go to the engine room downstairs to lock the door. I went down to the bottom of the ship and walked towards the engine room. When I passed the middle, I saw Miss Jiang hurriedly going to the engine room. up the middle stairs, and strangely she was only wearing a pajamas." "Oh, so..." For a moment, Li Guozhong couldn't think of any words to use to perfuse Xiao Ziming: "This is really strange...you...you haven't mentioned it to others, have you?"

"No, I just came here to tell you because I thought it was strange. Before dinner, you specifically told everyone that whoever appeared there would be suspected. Mr. Wang was with you at the time. He had no reason not to tell Miss Jiang about it." .” "Ok……" Li Guozhong looked at this kid and found that he was excited. "And I heard from the waiter downstairs that Ms. Jiang's friends also asked them for painkillers before dinner, saying that Ms. Jiang was sick. This... this is really weird, pretending to be sick when she is not sick I think they must have colluded to let Miss Jiang stay in the room on the grounds of being sick, and then go to the ice cellar when no one is paying attention after eating..."

Seeing that he didn't say anything, Li Guozhong asked instead: "Do you think they have any purpose in doing that?" "Well, I don't know either. But if we go to the ice cellar now, maybe we can find something." "You're right." Li Guozhong nodded, and then deliberately pretended to be mysterious and explained: "But it can't do it now, I have already told Mr. Wang that after dinner, I will go with him to investigate the situation of the Chen family. " "Then, what should we do?" "I think you might as well pretend that you don't know anything, continue to do your usual things, and go to the ice cellar with you after I come back from the investigation."

"This... okay." Xiao Ziming nodded and rolled his eyes. "Remember, this matter must be kept secret and cannot be told to anyone." "Yes, I see." "What's the matter, what have you been talking about for so long?" "Ms. Jiang was seen by Xiao Ziming when she came up from the corridor on the ground floor." "What? How could this be?" "Xiao Ziming only saw Quan coming up from below, but didn't see her coming out of the ice cellar, did he?" "It seems to be like this. He said that he was ordered by the captain to lock the door of the engine room. When he passed the middle staircase on the ground floor, he saw Miss Jiang hurried upstairs."

"It turned out to be like this. It's all my fault for not being careful." "No, no, it's none of your business." Wang Wei shook his head: "It was just an accident. But the little security guard must have doubted me and Quan, which is not good for the subsequent investigation." "That's true. He wants me to go to the ice cellar to see if Miss Jiang has done anything 'bad' after investigating the members of the Chen family." "Smart lad. Just Vi, what are we supposed to do?" "I don't know. I can't ask you to pretend to be a 'corpse' to show him again, and he must be watching us very closely now, and we have no chance. I think it's better to go upstairs to investigate first. , let Xiao Ziming help Inspector Li continue to investigate other matters, so that he has no time to think about what happened in the ice cellar, as long as we can clarify the case on this ship as soon as possible, everything can be explained then."

"Well, Mr. Wang, you are right. Then it's not too late, let's hurry up." He grabbed the coat on the backrest, tidied up his appearance in a hurry, and walked towards the door: "By the way, Miss Jiang, please help me check these reports again when you have time." "Understood." Taking the thick stack of papers, Jiang Quan began to flip through the first page. The first person they decided to investigate was Chen Yaming's only daughter, Chen Caiyi. Her room was room 209 of the second-class cabin. Mr. Li Guozhong, the police inspector who started the case.At this time, the two big men were standing at the door, they couldn't help but blush at the thought of entering a young girl's boudoir to investigate the case.

"Inspector Li, I won't go in. How about I wait for you outside?" "No, it's not good for me to ask this and that to a little girl alone. And the questions I ask him are related to her father who just died. You know I can't say words of comfort." "I don't know that." Wang Wei smiled slyly: "In this case, it's better to go upstairs and finish asking first, and it's not too late to ask here. You can call Shangquan at that time, and she will comfort people." "That's fine, that's fine." Li Guozhong nodded and hurried up the stairs. "Inspector Li, look." Wang Wei behind him suddenly stopped him, pointing to a black mass under the stairs. "what?" "Xiao Ziming is there, on the bottom of the boat." "Him? No way, what is he doing there again?" Li Guozhong held onto the railing on the stairs, leaned down to take a closer look.Sure enough, at the bottom floor separated by two stairs, through the dim light, the figure of a petite man swayed on the corridor. "It was him. What's the matter?" "I don't know either. Inspector Li, have you told him not to go to the ice cellar again?" "Of course, I told him to do the usual things, which means I told him not to go there again, he won't understand." "Then he..." Wang Wei seemed to realize something: "Call him up and let him investigate with us." "Alright, I think he's a bit strange, and I should pay more attention to it. Xiao—Ziming, hey, is that Xiao Xiao downstairs?" "Well... I am, you are Li—Inspector Li, what's the matter?" "Come on, I need your help." "me……" "faster." "Oh, I see... just come." "What's the matter, didn't you tell you not to go to the ice cellar again?" "Yes, that's true, but when I went back to my room just now, I inadvertently...saw a figure there." Seeing Wang Wei standing next to Li Guozhong, Xiao Ziming swallowed the word "again". "Xingying, you said there is someone in the ice cellar?" "yes." Xiao Ziming turned his head and glanced at Wang Wei, his eyes were timid. "So, that figure looks like a man and a woman?" "It should be a man. I saw it from the back. He was wearing a male sailor's uniform." "Go on, what happened after you saw it?" "I saw him wandering around the door of the ice cellar, so I called someone. He heard the shout and ran upstairs. I wanted to chase him, but when I reached the stairs, he had disappeared." "Then you wandered around the door of the ice cellar, hoping to find some clues?" I don't know if it was out of distrust of Xiao Ziming, but there was sarcasm in Wangwei's words. "yes." He reached into his uniform pocket and took out a twisted pin: "I found this on the floor of the ice cellar door." Li Guozhong and Wang Wei glanced at each other and took the pin: "It seems that they want to pick the lock. Well, let me put this pin here first. After we understand the situation upstairs, we will investigate this mysterious person." , we've wasted a lot of time." "Understood, then I still..." "Just stay with us. By the way, let me ask you a question, how old are you?" "I am twenty... twenty years old, twenty years old." "Very good. You know that Mr. Chen has a daughter who is only sixteen years old. We have questions for you to ask her later." Wang Wei blinked at Xiao Ziming, and took the lead upstairs. Chen Guanzhong lay bloodless on the bed in 108, gasping for breath, while accepting the interview from Li Guozhong and the others: "Mr. Chen still should take care of his health." "Hey... body, what's the use of taking care of your body? My two sons are dead, so why should I work so hard? Cough cough..." "You can't say that. You still have a wife, a daughter and son-in-law, two grandchildren, and a granddaughter, don't you?" "They, cough...they, cough cough cough..." As Chen Guanzhong was speaking, he suddenly coughed violently. Mo Shijin hurriedly picked up a glass of water from the coffee table, patted the old man's back, and poured it down: "Master, you should take medicine first." "Cough...wait for a while." Chen Guanzhong pushed Mo Shijin's hand away stubbornly, and said to her: "You go back to your room first, Inspector Li has something to ask me alone, and you will come over later." Mo Shijin was ordered to leave the stage. From Wangwei's point of view, this bad old man who was over seventy years old had the temperament of a tyrant.Similarly, it is not difficult to imagine how Chen Yaming feels disgusted with such a father. "Mrs. Chen, if it's okay, I just have a few questions to ask you, is that okay?" "this……" Mo Shijin glanced at Chen Guanzhong lying on the bed, seeing that he didn't pay any attention to him, so he nodded, and took Wang Wei to her own room.