Chapter 4 4. Strange things happened in the funeral parlor

Li Shuilu's body was cremated two days after her death.Although Liu Kai had expected that there would be no big names attending the funeral, this morning, he drove to the funeral home in the western suburbs of Baiyun City. Sure enough, the funeral was very deserted.When Liu Kai arrived, there were only a few people standing in the funeral hall.Hu Jianan was unable to attend due to illness, and Hu Guang was the only one present.The other two relatives are Li Ailing and her husband.The rest of the men had nothing to do with Li Shuilu, they were the security guards that Hu Guang brought from the hotel to help.

The guests were all wearing black tops with dignified expressions, which added to the solemn atmosphere of the funeral. Li Shuilu's body was placed on a large bed in the middle of the funeral hall.A white sheet covered the body tightly from head to toe.There was nothing around the bed. Since Liu Kai also changed into a black suit before coming today, when he walked into the funeral hall, Hu Guang and Li Ailing didn't pay attention to him at first.Hu Guang whispered something to the security chief of the hotel, while Li Ailing stood face to face with her husband. The two seemed to be arguing. Li Ailing looked very excited, her face turned pale, and her small mouth opened and closed. There is no sorrow, only anger.Liu Kai who had just walked into the funeral hall was far away from them, and their arguing voices were very low, so they couldn't hear the content of the quarrel at all.From a distance, he could only see Li Ailing's face facing the door clearly, while Li Ailing's husband, whose back was facing the door, left him with only a tall and thin back.

Li Ailing quarreled with her husband on such a sad and solemn occasion.Is there any knot between them that can't be untied, and it will make a noise to the funeral home?Curiosity prompted Liu Kai to stroll towards the quarreling couple. Seeing someone approaching, Li Ailing shut her mouth abruptly.But because her husband turned his back to Liu Kai and was emotionally agitated, he still whispered recklessly: "You never told me about this, why did you lie to me. You..." Li Ailing finally recognized Liu Kai.She stretched out her arm and gave her husband a hasty push.Immediately afterwards, he put on an embarrassing smile: "Officer Liu, I didn't expect you to come too. My godmother is under Jiuquan, and she will thank you too."

"Before the old man was alive, I met her in the hospital. It must be a kind of fate. I wanted to see her off at the last moment." Liu Kai said, looking at the man who still turned his back. "Oh, this is my husband, An Qi." When Li Ailing said this, An Qi turned around, "An Qi, this is Police Officer Liu, we met in the hospital." Li Ailing said again. An Qi nodded at Liu Kai, but on that very handsome and very pale face, there was still an expression of lingering anger. "Angie just had an operation and he's weak. We were arguing about it and I didn't want him to come here, but he just hitchhiked here by himself. He's too sentimental. But when he's dead, go What's the use of thinking about her?" Li Ailing gradually returned to normal, with sincere love for her husband showing on her face.

"Yeah, going to a funeral is tiring." Liu Kai echoed. Li Ailing seemed to be trying to win Liu Kai to be her ally, and continued talking about An Qi's illness.However, no matter how she guided, An Qi in front of her couldn't enter the context she set.The faint smile on his face could not hide the sullenness in his eyes.Fortunately, Hu Guang came over at this time and helped Li Ailing out of the siege. "Ah, Officer Liu! I didn't expect you to come to the funeral. Thank you! Thank you!" Hu Guang shook Liu Kai's hand politely and thoughtfully. Liu Kai also greeted Hu Guang politely.

"My father said he would come, but the doctor didn't allow him to step out of the hospital." Hu Guangmian said with a hidden needle. Liu Kai knew in his heart that this was a hint to him. Hu Guang's subtext was: Stay away from my father, don't even try to talk to him. At this moment, Li Ailing picked up the conversation again: "Brother, please help me persuade An Qi to let him go home!" In front of Liu Kai, Hu Guang once again successfully played his role as the big brother.He walked towards An Qi, and raised his arm to pat An Qi's shoulder from a long distance: "An Qi, your complexion is really not good. My little sister is right, you shouldn't come today."

"But, I..." An Qi said with some embarrassment.At this moment, there was no trace of anger on his face. "The old lady won't be angry with you. Even Lord Hades is not bad at treating patients! An Qi, since my little sister is so worried about your health, I think you will obey your orders!" Hu Guang said, regardless of whether An Qi agreed or not. Agreeing, he went straight to the door to call his driver. An Qi secretly gave Li Ailing a helpless look.Afterwards, he said "goodbye" to Liu Kai and reluctantly walked out. Liu Kai watched the back of An Qi walking out of the funeral home, full of doubts in his heart.

In order to organize his thoughts well, Liu Kai walked out the door slowly. At this time, the car that sent An Qi home had already driven a long way.However, Hu Guang still stood where he was.Seeing Liu Kai approaching, he continued the topic just now and said: "They love deeply. This kind of love is really enviable. In fact, An Qi was worried about my little sister and was afraid that she would be stimulated, so he insisted on it." of." Liu Kai nodded: "What does An Qi do?" "He is a researcher at the Institute of Chemistry of the Municipal Academy of Sciences."

"It can be seen that he is a man with delicate feelings." Liu Kai said casually. "What does your little sister do?" "She used to be Angie's assistant." "What now?" "Now—she resigned. Recently, because of An Qi's illness, she was physically and mentally exhausted. When she was doing a chemical experiment, she was in a trance and almost had a big mess. For this reason, An Qi mobilized her to resign. I am working on Help her find a job. My younger sister grew up in an orphanage, and her nerves are very fragile... You must have heard of this." Hu Guang couldn't help but sarcastically said, " You must know everything about my little sister's past. As policemen, your greatest hobby is to pry into other people's privacy."

"Sometimes it is like this." Liu Kai replied humorously, "I have a soft spot for those interesting privacy." Liu Kai and Hu Guang chatted a few more irrelevant words, and the farewell ceremony began. It was said to be a farewell ceremony, but everyone hurriedly circled around Li Shuilu's body covered under the sheet.Afterwards, Li Shuilu's body was put into the cremation box, moved to the front of the cremation furnace, and slowly sent into the furnace. There were no cries, and the funeral hall was silent. For a moment, Liu Kai was completely immersed in this empty atmosphere, unable to extricate himself.But soon, he was awakened by the messy footsteps of people walking out one after another.So, he followed everyone to the door.

At some point, Hu Guang and Li Ailing had already walked out before him, and they were discussing something standing in front of a car in the parking lot in front of the door. In order not to disturb Liu Kai, he stopped far away.He wanted to wait for them to finish their discussion, say goodbye, and drive back. "Officer Liu, thank you for coming to the funeral in your busy schedule." After a while, Hu Guang came over and shook hands with Liu Kai to say goodbye. The two said "goodbye" to each other and walked to their cars. When Liu Kai opened the car door, he inadvertently glanced at the door of the funeral home, but found that Li Ailing hadn't got into Hu Guang's car, and was hurrying towards the backyard of the funeral home. Liu Kai was stunned, and immediately got into the car, and sat on the driver's seat, but he didn't start the car.Out of the detective's instinct, he decided to wait before leaving. Hu Guang's car drove away. Liu Kai drove the car to the backyard of the funeral home. The back yard of the funeral parlor, where the relatives of the deceased collect the ashes, is much larger and more desolate than the front yard.On the barren slope overgrown with weeds outside the courtyard, there are flying paper flowers, paper money and paper dust everywhere, it is simply a big garbage dump.Liu Kai parked the car on a relatively flat slope outside the east gate of the backyard. Through the window glass, he looked into the courtyard with iron railings on the surrounding low walls. However, Li Ailing, who was supposed to come to collect the ashes, did not appear where she should be. Liu Kai hurriedly opened the car door and walked out. Liu Kai walked quickly into the backyard. In the huge yard, there was only a strong young man with a black and gray face, holding a broom in his hand, bending over to sweep the ashes. Liu Kai walked straight towards the young man: "May I ask if the ashes of the old man who was cremated just now have been taken?" Liu Kai asked. The young man straightened up and was taken aback for a moment: "What ashes? Didn't you say you don't want ashes?" "A young woman came in just now, didn't she come to collect the ashes?" "Oh, she came to tell me that the ashes were no longer needed. When the body was brought in this morning, the woman and her husband came to tell me that the old man's ashes were to be taken away. But just now, the woman said that the old man is not in this city. Relatives, don't want the ashes!" Liu Kai still couldn't believe it: "Did you make a mistake? I mean the old nanny of Hu Jian'an's family." "That's right! I'm talking about her. The cremation furnace has been overhauled these days, and only she was cremated this morning. Who else could it be?" The young man looked at Liu Kai in surprise, "You don't come here to collect the ashes of the old man. Bar!" "Ah, no!" Liu Kai couldn't help being tongue-tied, "I'm here to find the woman who came in just now..." "She went to the ashes storage room." The young man raised his hand and pointed to a very inconspicuous urinal in the northwest corner of the courtyard, "Go out from here, the small bungalow on the wall of the courtyard is the ashes storage place." Liu Kai said "oh", then turned and walked towards the urinal. After getting out the door, there was indeed a small one-story house close to the wall of the west courtyard.The main entrance of the bungalow faces west, and there is a small window about 20 centimeters to the north.From the outside, it looks like a tool room, not like a sacred place where ashes are placed. Before, Liu Kai had never heard of such a place in the funeral parlor, presumably it was also a temporary simple house built by the funeral parlor to generate income.In this way, some ashes that relatives cannot take away temporarily due to various reasons can be deposited here after paying a fee.However, whose ashes will Li Ailing, who was born as an orphan, deposit here? Liu Kai stopped in front of the small short window, leaned his body close to the small window, raised his neck, and looked into the room through the dusty window glass. The simple room was dark, and for a while, Liu Kai's eyes couldn't adapt to the darkness in the room, and he couldn't see anything clearly.However, his ears soon picked up the sound of an escalating argument in the room. "Why are you asking me for money in front of other people, making me look bad! Can't you just wait a day?" This was Li Ailing's angry voice. Another man's voice was rough and arrogant: "You didn't leave a dime, let me show you the dead. I don't want to make a living losing money. These days, I tried everything possible to contact you, but I just couldn't. When I called, they said that there was no such person as you. I thought you were fucking escaping. Luckily, you met me today. Otherwise, I will throw this box out in two days. " "you dare!" "What am I afraid of! Afraid of you?" The man sneered, "I'm afraid of a ghost. I think you are terribly afraid! You have ghosts in your heart, don't you?" "You are not trustworthy!" "Are you trustworthy? It's agreed, and the money will be delivered the next day, but you disappeared as soon as you went." "I have something to do at home, and I can't get away for a while. You think I'm willing to let you here! I'll take the ashes away right away." "Take it away? It's not that easy!" "Why are you unreasonable! The ashes are mine, why don't you let me take them away!" Li Ailing's voice raised an octave. The man's tone became more and more presumptuous: "You have a good idea. If you can't afford the money, you don't want the ashes. It's clearly agreed, and it's twenty yuan a day. How many days have you kept it here? Let me tell you, three hundred and sixty yuan, not even a penny less!" "But you didn't keep it a secret for me!" "That's because you didn't send the confidentiality fee on time." "I can only give you two hundred dollars!" "Two hundred dollars? No way!" "Anyway, I must take the ashes away today!" "You are amazing! Show me!" For a while, the room fell silent, no need to ask, the two were deadlocked. All of a sudden, Li Ailing burst into tears, crying: "Please! I only have so much money on me. I saved it from my mouth. Brother, it's not easy for me to come here. , you can do it!" Liu Kai finally saw clearly the man standing sideways to him standing in the northwest corner of the ashes storage room. This was a thick, tall man with black face, a full head taller than Li Ailing standing in front of him. Hearing what Li Ailing said, Liu Kai felt sore in his heart. He really wanted to rush into the house, throw that man one hundred and sixty yuan, and help Li Ailing snatch the urn she wanted to take away.But even greater doubts forced him to stop where he was. The man's tone softened a bit, but he was not moved by Li Ailing's crying: "Why don't you put the ring on your finger here as the best number." Li Ailing didn't say anything.Perhaps hesitating. "It's not a valuable thing! At most eighteen carat gold, no more than three hundred yuan." The man said again. Li Ailing seemed ready to compromise: "My husband bought it for me. I use it as payment, what if he asks?" "You just say you lost it!" The man said glibly, "Such a worthless thing, it can't be an engagement ring! Why are you reluctant to part with it?" "It's not an engagement ring. But..." It seemed that Li Ailing was still hesitant. The man became a little impatient: "But what! Just be more straightforward, we will make a deal if you like it, and if you don't, just take the money! I don't have time to bargain with you." In the shadows, Li Ailing finally raised her left hand... When Li Ailing was walking towards the door with an urn wrapped in red cloth in her hands, she turned her head warily and glanced at the window of the simple house.Fortunately, Liu Kai had already left the window and returned to his car. Liu Kai quickly started the car.He estimated that Li Ailing would not recognize this ordinary Santana sedan without police lights as his car, so he slowly drove the car to the front yard. However, Li Ailing had long since disappeared from the front yard. Liu Kai stopped the car, lowered the window glass, leaned out half of his body, and looked around.At this moment, faintly, a woman's mournful cry came from a distance. Liu Kai was shocked again.He opened the car door, got out of the car, and walked forward following the sound of crying. Under the steep slope of the parking lot, Li Ailing was holding an urn, sitting in the cold wind and crying loudly.As if she wanted to pour out all the bitterness that had been accumulated in her heart for decades, she was so sad that she couldn't help herself. Liu Kai stood on the slope and looked at her from a distance. In Liu Kai's view, this petite woman seemed to be immersed in an indescribable pain.Her waist twisted and twisted by heartbreak, her back and neck bent by grief, her long hair covered half of her face in a mess, and her once beautiful woman who was drowned in tears His face, at this moment, was tightly wrapped in sadness.Seeing her in pain, it seemed like she couldn't break free anymore. Li Ailing just kept crying, she didn't even notice that there was a pair of eyes looking at her on the steep slope far away. Liu Kai's gaze never left the urn in her arms for a moment.There is no doubt that Li Ailing's grief came from the urn.In other words, it was this person who was now in the urn that made her miserable.But who is the deceased in the urn?What is the relationship with Li Ailing?Is it a lover?As soon as this hypothesis appeared in Liu Kai's mind, his eyes could not help but light up.Perhaps this assumption really holds true.isn't it?In order to secretly take away the ashes of this person, Li Ailing did everything possible to send her husband away, and she may have lied to Hu Guang who wanted her to take a ride.She even went so far as to exchange a gift from her husband, a ring symbolizing love, for the ashes.Just, what happened before that?Naturally, it was an extramarital affair, and the two loved each other desperately. However, a sudden disaster took away the life of the other... Li Ailing sent her beloved here alone, and then temporarily sent his ashes In the simple room.The big man who took care of her ashes asked her for 360 yuan, calculated at 20 yuan per day, then this person should have been cremated 18 days ago... Wait a minute, there is a problem that doesn't make sense, Why did Li Ailing want to take away the ashes today?Is she trying to come up with an imposter?Yes, she definitely wanted to.That's what she told Hu Guang just now: she wants to take Li Shuilu's ashes away.Everyone knows that she loves her godmother Li Shuilu, so she can openly buy a grave for this man in Li Shuilu's name and bury him, and she can also come to pay homage to him anytime, anywhere.The dead is in her heart, anyway, the box contains a handful of ashes, no one knows that she has played a trick... Li Ailing at the bottom of the steep slope was still crying heartbreakingly, and Liu Kai on the steep slope was also racking his brains to analyze the sudden incident.Right now, in Liu Kai's heart, sympathy has been replaced by suspicion.Ordinarily, this is purely Li Ailing's personal matter and has nothing to do with Li Shuilu's case.This seems to be a coincidence-one person died and the ashes could not be buried publicly. It happened that another person died, and the ashes of this person were replaced by the ashes of another person.But what if Li Shuilu didn't die?If Li Shuilu had not been killed, whose ashes should Li Ailing replace?Is there such a coincidence in the world?But the reason why Li Ailing stored her ashes here was obviously waiting for some kind of coincidence... Down the steep slope, Li Ailing's crying became more and more subdued. Liu Kai guessed that after pouring out all the bitterness in her heart, Li Ailing would go back to the parking lot and take a bus on the highway.He didn't want Li Ailing to find out that he was spying on her, so he returned to the car and quickly drove the car onto the road. After Liu Kai drove away from the funeral home, he didn't drive away.He drove the car to a fork in the road not far from the funeral home, turned around again, and parked the car in the grass on the side of the road.He was sitting in the cab, but his eyes were fixed on the direction of the funeral home. Half an hour later, a black figure appeared in Liu Kai's vision.Li Ailing held a "box" re-wrapped in her black flower headscarf in her hand, and walked forward slowly.From a distance, Liu Kai couldn't see the expression on her face clearly, but her stumbling steps conveyed a feeling of confusion and indifference. Liu Kai watched Li Ailing walk towards the bus stop and watched her get on the bus.Then, he started the car and drove on the road leading to the funeral home. In the backyard of the funeral home, Liu Kai found the black-faced man.At that time, he was carrying garbage to the garbage truck with the young man who cleaned the crematorium.Liu Kai walked over and patted him on the back: "You, come with me!" The black-faced man turned his head, his face was flushed red, and he was about to explode when he caught sight of the ID card Liu Kai held up in front of him, and immediately his face turned from red to white. "Are you looking for me?" the black-faced man said in a low voice. Liu Kai nodded. The young man standing in the carriage looked up at Liu Kai with a surprised expression on his face.Liu Kai smiled at him: "I have something to do with your colleague." "Go! Go! I'll do the rest!" the young man said to the black-faced man. Liu Kai led the black-faced man to the urinal in the backyard. When he came to the simple room where the ashes were stored, Liu Kai stopped and turned to face the black-faced man.The black-faced man peeked at Liu Kai and then at the simple house, his expression became tense. "Your name?" Liu Kai said in a businesslike tone.Years of experience in handling cases told him that he must not be polite or polite to people like black-faced men. "Sixth Lei." The dark-faced man replied timidly. "I saw everything you did in this house just now." Liu Kai said coldly. The strong body of the black-faced man couldn't help but tremble. "But I don't want to pursue it at the moment. You just need to answer a few questions." "Okay! Okay!" the black-faced man said repeatedly. "How did you know that woman?" Liu Kai said sternly, "You have to answer truthfully." "I'm telling the truth! That's what happened. One day about half a month ago, the shelter in the city sent the body of an unknown man, saying that the old man who scavenged garbage died in an old underground garage. The identification was a natural death. There were many corpses to be cremated that day, so we put him at the end. Just as we were pushing the old man's body to be sent to the cremation furnace, the woman rushed in, crying and saying that she knew this man. The old man who scavenged, the old man has a family, and I can’t contact him for a while. She wants to keep the old man’s ashes so that the old man’s family can pick them up in the future. The woman bought a not cheap ashes in our store. I put the ashes of the old man in the box, and came to the urn depository, saying that I would store it here for a few days. I took out the deposit slip and went through the deposit procedures for her. But she looked at the client’s name and address on the deposit slip. She suddenly looked scared. She asked me if I could not fill out this form. She also said that as long as I agreed to keep the secret for her, she would pay me twenty yuan a day. As soon as I heard that she offered such a high price, I immediately agreed Who knows, she left the urn here for half a month. I feel a little nervous. If she keeps not showing up, am I being cheated by her? Fortunately, this morning, she I was bumped into in the backyard. At that time, she pretended not to see me, turned her head to the side, and talked to her husband. When I saw this, I became angry and rushed to ask her for money. No need to ask, she didn't want her husband to know about this, so she quickly pulled me aside, begged me to keep quiet, and said that I would pay me after the business here is over. Saw." "Can you guarantee that the ashes belong to the old man who scavenged?" "I can assure you. I installed the ashes for her myself." "Do you know how old the old man is?" "To tell you the truth, after the woman left, I took a peek at the cremation registration form for that day. It says over 60 years old on the registration form!" "Over sixty years old?" The age reported by Lei Liuzi was far beyond Liu Kai's expectations. "Didn't you ask how the woman knew the dead man?" "No." "Okay. You go back! Don't tell anyone about our conversation!" Liu Kai said. Lei Liuzi nodded again and again: "I know! I understand the rules!" The questioning of Lei Liuzi plunged Liu Kai into even greater confusion.Previously, Liu Kai had always thought that the deceased Li Ailing grieved for was her lover.But looking at it now, it is obviously absurd for an old man in his sixties to be Li Ailing's lover who is just in his early thirties.But who is Li Ailing's old man who scavenged waste?It is incredible that Li Ailing has more affection for him than the godmother she has been deeply attached to since she was a child. In order to find out the true identity of the deceased in the urn for which Li Ailing wailed, Liu Kai went to the shelter again to learn about the situation from the relevant personnel. The driver, Chang Chang, and the clerk, Tang Xiaoming, were the first to arrive at the scene of the old man's death. "Oh, the old man died very badly." Lao Chang sighed and said with great emotion, "Early that morning, we received a call from the traffic police, saying that a person died in the old underground garage at the back door of Haiyun Hospital. Xiao Tang hurried over. When he got there, he was lying curled up on the concrete floor, his body was cold and stiff, and he had been dead for a long time." "It is said that he died of natural causes. What disease did he suffer from?" "It may have been a bad cold at first, and then pneumonia, high fever persisted. According to nearby residents, he was seen coming out of the garage with a broken sack in the first three days. The cause of death was probably not treated in time. The underground garage It's cold and damp, and the south-facing exit doesn't even have a door, it's just so wide open. The old man blocked the door with a few cardboard boxes, what's the use? In addition, there is no decent bedding, so a bad cold It was fatal. When he died, he looked very painful, his whole body rolled from a pile of tattered quilts onto the concrete floor, his hands and legs were tightly huddled together, it was clearly unbearably cold... Alas, people have lived so long For the sake of it..." Old Chang shook his head again and again. "Do you know where he is from?" Liu Kai asked again. "I don't know. I heard from the people around me that he hasn't lived in this underground garage for a long time, only a few months! He is the kind of lonely old man who doesn't say hello to anyone. Besides, a waste picker can No one paid any attention to him, so no one could tell where he came from." "Did anyone come to see him during this time?" "never heard of that." "Does he have any identification documents on him?" "No." "Doesn't he even have an ID card?" "No." "Then how do you judge his age?" "His hair was all white. His body was bony and his knuckles were so disfigured. He looked like an old man who had suffered all his life. But there was one thing I found strange. He should be as fastidious as a city man, Dental kits, towels and soaps are neatly arranged against the wall of the old garage. Therefore, I suspect that he is not a real farmer." "Could this be another 'black man'?" Liu Kai thought in his heart and couldn't help blurting out. Due to their special occupations, Lao Chang and Tang Xiaoming often accept such investigations, so they answered all Liu Kai's questions very cooperatively. Liu Kai thanked Lao Chang and Tang Xiaoming, and when he turned to leave, Lao Chang stopped him suddenly: "Officer Liu, did this old man who scavenged something do something wrong?" Liu Kai thought for a while before saying, "We just want to learn something through him." "You said that, but I remembered one thing." As Lao Chang said, he took out a folded note from the slanted pocket of his black jacket and handed it to Liu Kai, "This thing was written by me when the old man I found it in my coat pocket. At that time, I thought it was very interesting, so I stuffed it in my pocket.” Liu Kai took the note with badly worn corners and creases, and carefully unfolded it. A few lines of poetry-like text were written on the piece of paper with a ballpoint pen.The handwriting is free and easy, but it is a bit blurred due to the time. My brother—your grave is in Xiaoba Village, and mine is also there—although I am still alive, my soul has long since died. Like you, I was buried in Xiaoba Village in a foreign land. Liu Kai read the words on the small piece of paper for a long time. The three words "Xiaobacun" were like lightning and thunder, bombarding his nerves. Lao Chang just looked at him puzzled. "I have to go to Xiaoba Village right away." After returning to the Criminal Investigation Brigade, Liu Kai couldn't hold back his inner urgency, and said while showing Ma Sen the note left by the old scavenger, "This is by no means accidental. Originally, On the surface, the strange incident in the funeral home seems to have nothing to do with the case of Li Shuilu, but in my subconscious mind, I vaguely feel that there is some kind of causal relationship. Now, from the note left by the old man who scavenged In the process, I suddenly found the link that connects the two—this is Xiaobacun. Although we don’t know what happened there at present, what happened there is already an ironclad fact. I think , Maybe the secrets hidden in Xiaoba Village are the keys to unlocking the mysteries of Li Shuilu's case. At least one thing is certain: Li Shuilu lived in Xiaoba Village. It may be her hometown." "Yes, when a person is dying, he often thinks of his hometown. No matter how far he is from it, and no matter how many years he has been away from it, at the last moment, the soul will always go back to his hometown." Ma Sen added. "But why did the old man who scavenged waste mentioned Xiaoba Village in his poem?" Liu Kai asked again. "The old scavengers call Xiaoba Village a foreign land, that is to say, Xiaoba Village cannot be the hometown of the old scavengers, that's for sure. However, what kind of relationship will he have with Li Shuilu? First of all, he doesn't It may be the murderer, because his death came first, and Li Shuilu's assassination came later." Ma Sen looked at the note repeatedly, thinking for a long time. "And Li Ailing, what is the relationship with these two people? This is really puzzling." Liu Kai continued. "I have an idea." After a while, Ma Sen raised his head from his contemplation, "Before you go to Xiaoba Village, let's ask Li Ailing for a question." "In what name?" "Just ask about the ashes. Maybe you can find something." "Do you think she'll admit it?" "Can't those two people from the funeral home testify?" "Even if she admits to exchanging the ashes, it won't help us. If she said that the godmother Li Shuilu had an oral will and did not leave ashes. And she sympathized with the old man who scavenged waste, and was afraid that her husband would object, so she did it. It should be said that the reason was It’s reasonable, how can you go on asking this?” Mason nodded: "Who knows? Maybe she will really answer that." Finally, the two reached a consensus: this matter will not be made public temporarily, and the investigation will be conducted quietly by the two of them.Before finding conclusive evidence, don't disturb Li Ailing and anyone around her.