Chapter 11 Chapter 10 Step-by-step scrutiny

The canteen run by Zhou Yonggui is located on the northeast side of the island. When Luo Fei came here after inquiring all the way, Zhou Yonggui was not in the store. His wife Guo Guizhi was busy with the boys. This is a small facade, with an area of ​​about 20 square meters. There are several rows of shelves like a supermarket. Guo Guizhi and the boy are stacking a bunch of goods on the shelves. "I also want to know where he is!" Guo Guizhi immediately complained loudly when he heard that Luo Fei was looking for Zhou Yonggui, "This dead ghost ran out early in the morning and didn't come back for lunch. The one who just came in Goods, don't take care of them in the store, do you want to exhaust my old lady to death?"

"What did he go out for?" "It's not just watching the fun. I really don't understand. A rascal like Xue Xiaohua dies as soon as he dies. What's so interesting? Everyone else has left, and he doesn't know how to come back. The more he lives, the more shameless he is!" Guo Guizhi said Excited, both hands danced wildly in the air, "The 4,000 yuan left over from the purchase yesterday has not been given to me until now. I can't spare him today!" Her last sentence caught Luo Fei's attention, and he immediately asked, "Did Xue Xiaohua come here yesterday?"

Guo Guizhi originally thought that Luo Fei was just an ordinary stranger who came to find her husband for business purposes, but when he heard him suddenly ask Xue Xiaohua, he couldn't help becoming suspicious, and asked narrowly, "Who are you?" Before Luo Fei could answer, he heard a voice say: "Sister-in-law, this is a police officer in the city, you must not talk nonsense." It was Jin Zhenyu who came. Seeing Luo Fei looking at him questioningly, he explained, "Officer Luo, I was looking for you everywhere. Some people said they saw you go north, so I guess it's here."

"how do you know?" "Guangsi Special Song." Jin Zhenyu's eyes were piercing, "This is Zhou Yonggui's New Year's gift just bought yesterday—Officer Luo, I know some things on this island better than you." Luo Fei smiled slightly: "Your judgment is good. And I'm almost sure now that Xue Xiaohua did come here last night." "Xue Xiaohua has been here before, but his death has nothing to do with our family Yonggui!" Guo Guizhi smelled something from the conversation between the two, and hurriedly defended, "Our couple is honest and honest, and we are usually bullied and blackmailed by that rascal. You are all useless, how can you have the guts to harm others?"

"Tell me about Xue Xiaohua's visit to Zhou Yonggui yesterday in detail first, we won't wrong a good person." Luo Fei saw that although this woman was bluffing and seemed fierce on the surface, she was actually a straight-hearted person with no heart , There should be nothing to hide from what comes out of her mouth. Sure enough, Guo Guizhi was like pouring beans into a bamboo tube, and happily told what happened yesterday. "Xue Xiaohua is a rascal. Every time our house buys goods, he always comes to steal something. I met him yesterday at Yonggui at the pier, and I don't know what kind of trouble he caused. After returning, Yonggui was full of worries and seemed very unhappy. Happy. I asked him, and he told me that Xu gave Xue Xiaohua some bulk liquor. To be honest, I didn’t take it too seriously. This thing is not worth much, so I will give it if I give it. After all, Dr. Xue used to When he was alive, he had accumulated a lot of virtue. At about eight o’clock in the evening, Xue Xiaohua came, called Yonggui out, muttered something, and our dead ghost lost his mind and came back to bring him a bottle of Si Tequ! What do you call this? This bottle of wine costs nearly one hundred and ten yuan, and a good person can’t do this! I scolded him at the time, but you didn’t see Xue Xiaohua’s complacency, and you didn’t feel ashamed at all. , as if we owed him. After he left, the more I thought about it, the angrier I became, and I forced our dead ghost to chase the wine back. But what can that wretch do? He went out for more than half an hour, not only did he not want the wine When I came back, my face turned pale with fright. Tell me, why did I marry such a useless man?"

Guo Guizhi finished all this in a hurry, panting for breath, as if his anger had not stopped.She spoke quickly, leaving no opportunity for interruption. Luo Fei, however, paid close attention to a detail she mentioned: "You mean that when Zhou Yonggui went out and came back again, he was in a somewhat abnormal mood?" "It's very abnormal. It's like seeing a ghost, trembling while speaking. I don't know what he is afraid of?" Luo Fei and Jin Zhenyu glanced at each other, each lost in thought.There was a brief silence in the small shop. Seeing that the two of them were silent, Guo Guizhi felt a little uneasy. After holding back for a while, she finally yelled uncontrollably: "Hey, what are you thinking? You won't doubt our family Yonggui again, right? He absolutely No guts to harm others, by the way, he also said that Xue Xiaohua left with a woman."

"Woman?" Luo Fei couldn't help being taken aback by this sudden clue. "Yes. And it's a woman with a baby." A woman with a baby?Hearing this situation, Luo Fei just felt a little strange.But Jin Zhenyu's reaction was a bit abrupt, his face changed drastically, and his lips even trembled slightly. "What's wrong?" Luo Fei noticed his abnormal situation, "Is there something wrong here?" "No, it's impossible." Jin Zhenyu was trying to control his emotions, "How could there be a woman holding a baby on the island?"

"But that's what he said. Our family, Yonggui, can't lie." Speaking of this, Guo Guizhi seemed to think of something, and pointed at the boy, "If you don't believe me, if you ask him, he will be there at that time." The young man confirmed Guo Guizhi's statement: "It was like this at the time. After the boss came back, the boss lady asked him if he wanted the wine back. He didn't answer, but kept muttering: 'He left with the woman...he went with a hug The woman with the baby left...' And he really looked very scared, and he even took several pills."

"Zhou Yonggui has a bad heart, and he is prone to get sick when he is stimulated, so he needs to take medicine." Jin Zhenyu helped to explain the boy's words. "What are you thinking?" Luo Fei fixed his eyes on Jin Zhenyu, not giving him any chance to hide his emotions. "This..." Jin Zhenyu hesitated for a moment, then winked at Luo Fei, "Let's talk about it later." Is there something unspeakable?Luo Fei decided to put this point aside and continue to ask Guo Guizhi one last question. "When did Zhou Yonggui go out today?" "It was around seven o'clock in the morning, right? As soon as he heard that Xue Xiaohua was dead, he went out immediately. He hasn't come back yet."

"When he comes back, you must contact us immediately." After Luo Fei ordered this, he left Zhou Yonggui's shop.Generally speaking, the effect of this visit is satisfactory to him, and now he needs to think quietly for a while, and re-read the clues he obtained before and after. Luo Fei walked unhurriedly on the mountain path, sometimes frowning, sometimes taking deep breaths, sometimes stretching out his hands to cross his hair, sometimes he would stop, and look up to the sky with his hands behind his back, as if he could see the sky from the vast expanse. Find something in the space.During this process, Jin Zhenyu has been following him, thinking alone.

"Okay." Luo Fei finally turned around and said to Jin Zhenyu, "It is very important that you find Zhou Yonggui as soon as possible." "Do you think he might be the murderer?" "No. He knows a lot of things, but he's not a murderer." "why?" "Because of the 4,000 yuan." Seeing that Jin Zhenyu went in without knowing it, Luo Fei continued, "You were late just now, and there is one thing you didn't know. The 4,000 yuan in Xue Xiaohua's pocket was given to him by Zhou Yonggui of." Jin Zhenyu looked surprised: "Why did Zhou Yonggui give him the money?" "The answer to this question should be here." Luo Fei said as he took out a piece of paper from his pocket and handed it to Jin Zhenyu, "This is the half-written note that Xue Xiaohua wrote before going out last night. Look Look, what does that mean?" "I found Wang Chenglin's son, and he promised to give me 3,000 yuan and let me tell..." Jin Zhenyu finished reading the contents of the note, and fell silent for a while. Luo Fei tried to guide Jin Zhenyu's thoughts: "You should know Wang Chenglin, right? Meng Shaohui is his son." "Wang Chenglin? Then I have a little impression." Jin Zhenyu looked a little stunned, "Then Meng Aiguo and Wang Chenglin are alone. I remember that their father and son left Mingze Island many years ago. Why did they even change their names?" "There are hidden secrets that we need to explore, and it is also Xue Xiaohua's capital for blackmail." "Extortion? Are you asking for the 2,000 yuan from Meng Shaohui?" "No, blackmailing some other people." "Some other people?" Jin Zhenyu smiled blankly, "I don't understand." "Look at this note, it's obviously not for Meng Shaohui. The problem here is that Xue Xiaohua truthfully wrote that he asked Meng Shaohui for 2,000 yuan at first, but then he changed his mind and changed the number into 3000. It can be inferred that soon he felt that it was not appropriate to directly alter the note, so he discarded this note, and probably wrote a new one. Who did he write this for, and why did he exaggerate the amount requested? " Luo Fei paused for a moment, seeing that Jin Zhenyu couldn't give an answer, so he continued to explain: "Seeing the contents of the note, it is generally easy to think that the person receiving the note is an accomplice with Xue Xiaohua. But according to Xue Xiaohua's rascal temper, he It is only right to conceal the income and reduce the amount of money requested. There is absolutely no reason to exaggerate-so we need to change our thinking: the note is written for some people who don't want Xue Xiaohua to tell Meng Shaohui about something. So Xue Xiaohua used this to blackmail them, he exaggerated the amount of money he asked Meng Shaohui, just to extort more money from these people!" "These people? You mean more than one? Then Zhou Yonggui is one of them?" "That's right. Zhou Yonggui accepted his blackmail, so he won't be the murderer." "You mean, the murderer should be someone who was blackmailed and refused to accept it?" The reasoning here is not complicated. After Jin Zhenyu figured it out, he asked, "Then who else is blackmailed?" "Are there deaf-mute people on Mingze Island?" Luo Fei suddenly asked a seemingly irrelevant question. Jin Zhenyu shook his head resolutely: "Never." "That's a bit strange." Luo Fei lowered his head in thought for a moment, then shook his head, as if there was a problem he couldn't figure out.In the end, he gave up and said to himself, "As long as we find Zhou Yonggui, all mysteries should be solved." "By the way." Luo Fei suddenly looked up at Jin Zhenyu again, "Is there a woman with a baby on the island? Why did you feel a little abnormal just now?" "There is absolutely no such woman on the island. As for why I am nervous..." Jin Zhenyu suddenly looked at Luo Fei with a strange look, "Officer Luo, I heard that you came to Mingze Island this time to solve the problem. The secret of 'Ghost Watching Slope'?" "That was the original idea." Luo Fei didn't know why he suddenly brought up this topic. "Then it seems that you don't know that the black figure that appeared on the 'Ghost Watching Slope' back then is said to be a woman holding a baby!" "What?" The case was suddenly linked with the legend of "Ghost Watching Slope", which made Luo Fei feel a little weird for a while. "Of course it's just a rumor." Jin Zhenyu changed his tone, "Actually, I don't believe in ghosts and gods. It's just that Guo Guizhi mentioned the woman holding a baby just now, and I know that you came for the 'Ghost Watching Po', so There were some associations and abnormal emotions appeared. But—it is true that no babies have been born on the island recently, how can this be explained?" Faced with this new situation, Luo Fei has no clue at the moment.He suddenly remembered that Jin Zhenyu came to find him in a hurry, so he asked, "You came to see me, what's the matter?" "Well, there is one thing I think I should tell you as soon as possible." Jin Zhenyu said with a serious expression, "Lao Hu just came back. The sea water in the port has been frozen, and it is impossible to go to the county in the past few days." Luo Fei's heart skipped a beat, which meant that at least for a period of time, he would be trapped in an environment isolated from the outside world, just like what he experienced in Nanming Mountain!