Chapter 32 fourth quarter

In the evening, the sky was dyed red by fire clouds.I stood by the window, closed my eyes and meditated.There were noisy footsteps in the corridor, and it seemed that someone was talking loudly. "It's so dark, why don't you turn on the light?" Qin Siwei opened the door and walked in, and turned on the light. "Oh, it's nothing." I came back to my senses, "What's going on outside? It's a mess." "Lao Gu asked all the guests and hotel staff to go to the lobby to take fingerprints—they found suspicious fingerprints on the fire extinguisher." He said, "It's okay, the two of us have already been excluded, so there's no need to go."

"Let's go and have a look." I opened the closet, "You go down first, I'll change clothes." Qin Siwei stood still: "You don't want to push me away, do you want to do something yourself?" "Careful! Why should I dismiss you?" I asked back, "You don't want to watch people change clothes, do you?" "Forget it, I'm afraid you'll pick out my eyeballs." He made a grimace and backed out. After changing my clothes, I walked around and finally came to the lobby on the first floor.The scale of fingerprinting is huge, and the two forensic doctors are so busy mechanically that they don't even bother to wipe off their sweat.People lined up in loose formations, jostling each other and grumbling under their breath.Lao Gu leaned on the stairs and whispered to Qin Siwei, his expression was very relaxed.On the sofa next to the reception, Ren Xuling and Chen Xinye were sitting side by side, waving to me.

"How? Are you feeling better?" I walked over and greeted them. "Well, I'm fine." Ren Xuling said shyly. "I just heard that you saved Ren Xuling's life." Chen Xinye narrowed his eyes. "Oh, it's no big deal." I changed the subject, "Have you all finished fingerprinting?" "It's over." Chen Xinye raised his hand and showed me his black fingers, "We're waiting for Teacher Li, she's going up to get something. We'll go to the hot spring to eat roast lamb later." "Where are the others?" I looked around, but there was no one I knew.

"The principal said he was not feeling well, so he didn't go. Teacher Sun and Teacher Yin went to order food first." Just as she was talking, Li Haixia walked down the stairs carrying a laundry bag.She nodded to me, then frowned and said to Ren Xuling: "I didn't find your school uniform, where did you put it?" "Just put it on the chair next to the bed." Ren Xuling blinked in confusion. "What's wrong?" I asked Li Haixia. "I just went upstairs to take down the dirty clothes, and wanted to drop by the laundry room of the hotel. Xiaoling asked me to help her wash the changed school uniform. But I searched the house for a long time, but I couldn't find it. Her school uniform. What a strange thing."

"Forget it, let's look for it when we come back. It probably fell behind the chair." Chen Xinye looked at his watch, "Miss Li, come with us to eat roasted lamb." "Thanks, but I'm not hungry yet," I said.Eating with them is more boring than eating with Lao Gu. At this time, there was a muffled sound outside, as if something heavy fell to the ground, and almost at the same time there was a hoarse cry.The cry was like throwing a boulder into a pool of clear water, causing a commotion in the hall. "what happened?" "Who is it?" "What are you doing?"

I ran out to see what happened.A middle-aged woman with the appearance of a gardener in a wide-brimmed straw hat sat on the ground and yelled in fear, as if the end of the world had arrived.On a piece of overwhelmed cineraria on the flower bed, Principal Zheng was lying dead.His white hair was gently swaying by the wind, and the soil, flowers and plants under his body were dyed red by blood plasma. "He, he jumped from there!" The gardener grabbed my arm as if seeing a savior, crying, and pointed tremblingly at an open window on the fifth floor, "I saw him jump." The people in the hall also crowded into the courtyard at this time.The screams and shouts were mixed together, and crying was vaguely mixed.Like swimming against the current, I pushed away the crowds that kept coming up, and ran up to the fifth floor as fast as I could.Lao Gu was frantically twisting the doorknob of Room 522 - that was President Zheng's room.

"It can't be opened." He said anxiously to Qin Siwei beside him, "It seems to be blocked from the inside." "What time is it, you're still so gentle!" Qin Siwei rudely pushed Lao Gu aside, and kicked open the door.There was no light in the room, and the cold wind was blowing in through the wide-open windows.Outside the window, the noise grew louder.Someone yelled, "He's dead!" Someone yelled, "Where's the police?" "The door is plugged in from the inside." Lao Gu lowered his head and picked up a broken latch, looked around, picked up a piece of white paper with a few lines written on it from the bedside table, and turned on the lamp, "' Everything...is caused by me alone, I...have to pay the price for my shamelessness...'This...what is this?"

"Let me see." Qin Siwei snatched the paper, "This is the letter paper provided by the hotel, every room has it. Could it be..." He raised his head and looked at me with questioning eyes. "Just do a handwriting test." I said lightly, "The gardener said just now that she saw Principal Zheng jump from here." "Suicide?" Qin Siwei looked at the piece of paper in his hand again, "Is it really a suicide note? Shameless... what do you mean?" "Isn't the meaning obvious? Principal Zheng admitted that Ge Yao's death and Ren Xuling's attack were all caused by him."

"How is it possible!" Lao Gu yelled at me fiercely, "How could the principal be the murderer!" "I just want to do a handwriting identification." I didn't bother to argue with him, "Also, since you found fingerprints on the fire extinguisher, you might as well compare them with Principal Zheng's." After I finished speaking, I turned my head and went back to my room.Qin Siwei followed out extremely wisely, leaving Lao Gu alone there yelling "impossible". "Do you really believe that Principal Zheng is the murderer?" After closing the door, Qin Siwei finally asked the words that he kept in his heart, "To be honest, I'm a little dizzy."

"Wait for Lao Gu's test results." I answered irrelevantly. "But why did he kill those two girls? No matter how I think about it, it can't be him." "If you only look at it from the perspective of possibility, then Principal Zheng had time to commit the crime." I said cautiously, "When Ge Yao was killed, he was in the hotel. The teachers of Experimental High School live in private rooms by themselves, so no one can give Zheng The principal is a time witness. When Ren Xuling was attacked, the principal was alone in room 522, which is the room closest to the corridor window, so he found the opportunity to throw the fire extinguisher and return to the room quickly, and the probability of being discovered is very small."

"Just from a possible angle?" Qin Siwei looked at me playfully, "That is to say, from other angles, it's another matter, right?" I laughed but didn't answer.He was a little anxious, and said: "You explain clearly, you always make me anxious!" "Some things cannot be rushed." "Anyway, it's hard for me to believe that Principal Zheng is the murderer." He said firmly, "Also, did he really commit suicide?" "Looking at the situation at the time, there seems to be no doubt about it. When President Zheng fell from the building, almost everyone had their fingerprints taken in the lobby on the first floor." I said, "The Wanggui Hotel has only six floors, so there is no elevator. You and Lao Gu have been at the stairs, so you should be able to see whoever goes up and down the stairs." "Only Li Haixia went up, but she had been down for a while when Principal Zheng fell." Qin Siwei thought for a while, "But there is a staircase at the side door of the hotel, and I didn't see Sun Liang and Yin Yufen when the incident happened." "Chen Xinye said that they went to the barbecue restaurant over the hot spring." I reminded him, "But the gardener told me that Principal Zheng jumped off." "The gardener is working, why does he keep looking up at the fifth floor? She just saw Principal Zheng fall, and then she took it for granted that she jumped." "Also, the door of 522's room is inserted from the inside." "But the window is open, so it can't be considered a secret room." He insisted stubbornly, "Besides, isn't this trick of pulling the latch from the outside very old-fashioned?" "Secret room? Trick?" I laughed so hard, "Have you read too many mystery novels? Do you think that all murderers in the world have their heads trapped by the door, and you are devising a complicated trick to play mind games with you policemen? Use the smallest It is the bad root of human beings to exchange the price for the biggest benefit, and murder is the same. Few murderers will do things that are thankless. Hey, at least in my opinion, killing such things has to calculate the cost and benefit, although the method A lot, but the simpler the better." "So you believe Principal Zheng committed suicide in fear of crime?" Qin Siwei stared at me, "Then tell me, what was his motive for killing Ge Yao and Ren Xuling?" "That's totally two different things." I sighed, "If you confuse them, you won't get a clue." "You..." He couldn't wait to ask.I made a stop gesture: "Don't ask me anything, I need time." "You already know, don't you?" He still couldn't help asking. "To be exact, I just found a common sense explanation." I nodded, "But it will take time to prove my judgment - this big dish is still short of the last seasoning." After a pause, I asked him, "Do you believe me?" "I...Okay." Qin Siwei compromised with some doubts. This night, Wanggui Hotel was surprisingly lively.The police come and go, and there's talk of schoolgirl attacks and Principal Jung's suicide.Early the next morning, Lao Gu knocked on the door with a pair of swollen eyes, saying that he wanted to talk to Qin Siwei and me alone. "I really can't figure it out. This must be a conspiracy, a complete conspiracy!" As soon as he sat down, he began to yell, "But I just don't understand how that lunatic did it." "Are the fingerprints on the fire extinguisher really belonged to Principal Zheng?" I asked him. "Yes, it belongs to the principal, that's right." He frowned, "but he can't be the murderer." "There are no traces of other people in Room 522?" "The inspection hasn't been finished yet. But the gardener insisted that she heard movement above her head, so she looked up and saw Principal Zheng jumping down. Also, the suicide note has been proved to be written by the principal himself. Well, witnesses, physical evidence, I'm going crazy!" "Why crazy, so... you're almost done with the case." "Are you kidding me!" Old Gu said with a bit of anger in his tone, "I understand the principal's behavior. I don't believe that he would kill people if he was killed! Besides, he has no reason to kill those two children!" He said He jumped over and grabbed Qin Siwei, "brother, this time my brother depends entirely on you, you have to help me!" "I... how can I help." Qin Siwei said reluctantly, "According to what you said, the evidence is conclusive." "No, there must be something strange." Old Gu restrained his emotions a little, "I just got the news this morning that Principal Zheng made a strange will, leaving all his property to Ge Yao." "A will? When did that happen?" Qin Siwei's ears perked up. "The will was made in the spring, at the end of March." Lao Gu said, "Principal Zheng said in the will that he has advanced liver cancer and can live until the end of the year at most. This has also been confirmed by the forensic doctor's report. He is indeed ill. It's very serious. I asked Teacher Li Haixia—she has a good relationship with the principal. Teacher Li told me that the principal was found to have terminal cancer during the physical examination last summer, but he has been hiding his illness from the public, and few people in the school know about it. This matter. In the will, the principal entrusted a law firm to auction off his two properties, and the proceeds from the auction together with his bank deposits were used as a fund to pay Ge Yao's college expenses and living expenses of 2,000 yuan per month. When Ge Yao graduates from university, the remaining money will be transferred to her in one lump sum." "How much is the property under Principal Zheng's name worth?" "I just asked the lawyer. It's about 600,000 yuan. In our small place, the house is not as valuable as your big city. But it's not a small sum." "Does the headmaster have any other legal heirs?" I asked. "No." Old Gu shook his head, "His wife died of illness three years ago, and he has no children." "In this case, it's not strange." Qin Siwei said, "He seems to like that child very much, paid for her tuition, and let her live in his own home. By the way, who else knows about the will?" "The lawyer said that Ge Yao was present when the principal made the will. I don't know anything else." Lao Gu was a little dissatisfied with the lack of support, "Maybe I thought too much. But since the principal wants to Leaving all the property to Ge Yao, there is no reason to kill her." "Could it be...Ge Yao has something to do with Principal Zheng?" Qin Siwei's imagination revived, "She has been staying at Principal Zheng's house, maybe she saw and heard something. Ren Xuling happened to be with the principal during the college entrance examination Therefore, she told Ren Xuling about the incident, which may have been intentional or unintentional, which caused both herself and Ren Xuling to die. Principal Zheng made a will at that time, perhaps to temporarily seal the Ge Yao's mouth." "This...is not impossible." Old Gu reluctantly agreed, "But what could happen? The principal has a secret...I still find it incredible." "It seems that there is no better explanation." Qin Siwei said hesitantly, and glanced at me again.I escaped on the pretext of going to a coffee shop to buy a drink. There are many tourists waiting to go to Ulan Butong Grassland or Dalinuoer Lake in the hall.Li Haixia is assisting the theory at the reception and in the happy-looking lobby. "Ms. Li, we have asked all the waiters on the fifth floor, but no one has cleaned that room." The assistant manager in the lobby said politely, "I think there is some misunderstanding here?" "What misunderstanding! If you lost something in your hotel, who would you look for?" Li Haixia was aggressive. "Forget it, Teacher Li." Chen Xinye on the side was acting as a peacemaker, "Don't waste time with this place. It's just an old school uniform." "What's wrong?" I leaned over. "I can't find Xiaoling's school uniform for some reason." Li Haixia snorted. "It's true that no one saw the school uniform." The assistant manager in the lobby was still smiling. "Forget it, let's go, there is a carload of people waiting." Chen Xinye dragged Li Haixia's arm and said to me, "It's okay. We're going back to the scripture shed, goodbye." After saying goodbye to them, I went for a walk in the fields outside, and it was already noon when I got back to the hotel.Lao Gu finally left, and Qin Siwei sat there alone in a daze. "It still doesn't make sense." He said with a sullen face, "If Principal Zheng killed Ge Yao, how did the two potatoes get into Sun Liang's bag? Principal Zheng didn't go to the hot spring. Moreover, if the person who attacked Ren Xuling was He, why would he be so stupid to leave his fingerprints? Now all idiots who commit crimes know to wear gloves." "You gave old Gu advice just now." I smiled, "Didn't it be determined that Principal Zheng killed someone because of some unknown secret?" "Other than that, I can't find a more reasonable motive." He said with some frustration, "But it's really unreliable, and only Lao Gu would believe it. But if it wasn't for him, what would the murderer be?" Did it?" "Okay, don't worry about it. This matter is not over yet." I opened the suitcase and stuffed the clothes in one by one. "When the mountains and rivers are full of doubts, it may be a turning point." "What are you doing?" He poked his head curiously. "Pack up your things and go home." I said without looking up, "We've stayed here long enough. Director Liu will be very upset if you don't go back." "But didn't you say that the matter here is not over yet?" Qin Siwei said reluctantly, "Maybe we should ask Ren Xuling about Principal Zheng." "She has already been brought back to the scripture shed by the teacher. I don't think Lao Gu is so stupid as not to send someone to protect her." I closed the lid of the box, "Don't worry, that old man will definitely find her again soon." Come to the door."