Chapter 33 Section five

A few days later, at noon, I was lying on the sofa applying a facial mask when Qin Siwei broke in with the travel-worn old Gu.Under their surprised eyes, I got into the bathroom in embarrassment, quickly washed off the green mud film on my face, and came out to prepare refreshments for them.Old Gu is very picky, he doesn't drink coffee or carbonated drinks, so I brewed a pot of chrysanthemum Pu'er tea and paired it with a plate of rose cakes baked in the morning. "What wind brought you here?" I pretended not to understand the reason for Lao Gu's visit. "Don't mention it, something happened again." He took a sip of tea, wiped his mouth, and began to tell me about his troubles, "Since you left, I have been looking into Principal Zheng's affairs, but I have hit a wall everywhere. I had to close the case several times, but I pushed it back. Because I was afraid that Ren Xuling would be in danger again, I sent people to monitor outside her house day and night. Her parents are both civil servants and have to go to work during the day, so I also sent a policewoman Considering that girl's personality, I specially asked Teacher Li Haixia to accompany her at her house, fearing that she would feel uncomfortable being alone with an unfamiliar policeman."

"It's well organized," I said appreciatively. "What's going on?" "Don't worry, listen to me slowly." Lao Gu seemed to have not drank water for several days, so he picked up his teacup and drank two more cups, "Everything was normal at first. Some teachers from Experimental High School also visited Ren Xuling. Liang and Chen Xinye went together, and Teacher Yin took her son Wang Zhe there once. Wang Zhe is a classmate of Ren Xuling, so there is nothing unreasonable to go to see, and after they left, nothing unusual happened. However, The day before yesterday morning, the post office delivered a package, which was addressed to Ren Xuling, and there was no sender's information. I opened the package and checked it. Guess what's inside? If you guessed it, I'll change your surname!"

"It must be the school uniform she lost in Wanggui Hotel." I smiled.If Lao Gu follows me and changes his surname to Li, I don't have much opinion, although I think "Li Ning" doesn't sound very pleasant to my ears. "Wow! You...how did you guess it?" Lao Gu shouted.His face turned red all of a sudden, as if he had a high fever, probably because he was regretting what he said just now. "Don't worry about how I guessed it. You should explain clearly, what happened?" I urged him to get back to the topic a little impatiently. "Oh, I haven't figured out what happened." Old Gu said with a droopy face, "I checked for a long time, and there was nothing wrong with the school uniform, so I gave it to Ren Xuling. The child looked at the school uniform. Afterwards, her face changed, and she didn’t say anything when she asked her what was going on. Then, around ten o’clock that night, she suddenly opened the window of her bedroom and jumped out.”

"Suicide?" I was somewhat surprised. "According to the description of the investigators who stayed at her house and outside, she jumped off by herself." Lao Gu said, "At that time, Teacher Li went home, and Ren Xuling's family and our police officers were in the living room. She was alone In the room, she suddenly opened the window and jumped down. Alas, she was supposed to report to the university today." "So how is she now?" I asked eagerly. "Still alive, under observation in the ICU. The doctor said that there is no big problem in saving his life, but one leg may be disabled."

"It's good to be alive." I secretly breathed a sigh of relief, "This matter can finally be over." "What's the end? We're tracing the origin of that package, there must be something wrong with it." "You don't need to check. I sent the package to Ren Xuling." I bit the rose cake. Lao Gu choked on the tea and coughed desperately.Qin Siwei was also taken aback: "You sent it? When did you send it? Why didn't you tell me? Why?" "You really don't know?" I put away my smile, "She is the real culprit of the Wanggui Hotel murder."

"Her?" Qin Siwei looked at me in amazement.Lao Gu's cough became worse. "Don't worry, let's start from the beginning." I added some tea for them, "After Ge Yao's body was found, there were two questions that puzzled me. The first is the murderer's motive, which we have repeatedly discussed before However, I can't seem to find a suitable conclusion. Vendetta killing is really out of the question, love killing is also very reluctant, and there is another possibility of silence. But what kind of earth-shattering secret can a seventeen or eighteen-year-old child know? Puzzling. The second question that confuses me is the suit of clothes by the pool. Although the locker room is not open, why doesn't Ge Yao put the clothes on the recliner by the wall, but throw them on the wet floor? This is unreasonable. Or, it wasn't Ge Yao, but the murderer did it on purpose, so why? I couldn't think of a reason for a while.

"Later, what Sun Liang said caught my attention. He said that Ge Yao finished the college entrance examination questions in less than 30 minutes and got nearly full marks. There is nothing surprising about high scores. Ge Yao's IQ is already an unbearable Doubtful proposition. But the strange thing is, how could she finish the test paper so quickly? Even if she is a super genius, she still needs to read the questions clearly when doing the test papers, right? Especially the English test of the college entrance examination, there are a lot of reading in the questions I understand that it takes time to read the article. There is also the composition, she must come up with it. I thought at the time that it would take 20 minutes to copy the answers and the composition. Therefore, Yin Yufen thought that Ge Yao had read the exam questions in advance. I think it is a reasonable explanation. But Sun Liang insisted that the test was done before the exam questions and answers were released. So, how can a person see the exam questions before the exam questions are made public? There is only one case—she participated Pass this year's exam!

"Before I noticed that Ge Yao and Ren Xuling were very similar. Yin Yufen also said that Ren Xuling's grades before the college entrance examination were not as good as this time, at least her grades were not stable. From the description of Ge Yao by the teachers Look, this talented girl seems to be in line with the conditions of the first place in the college entrance examination. In this way, I have a thought that even I think is ridiculous-could it be that Ge Yao took the college entrance examination instead of Ren Xuling? In this way, the two who confused me There was a reasonable explanation for the problem. Later, Feng Liping's testimony about Ge Yao taking the two potatoes strengthened my thinking.

"When I heard about that incident, my first reaction was childish. This kind of childish little trick can only be thought of by a kid of that age. A mature adult would not use this method to confuse the public. Yes. Because the more abnormal, complicated, and even weird appearances are, the easier it is to reveal the flaws, and it is easy to make mistakes in the process of operation. On the contrary, it is ordinary methods and common sense events that make people more difficult to find. What went wrong." "Little trick?" Old Gu asked in a daze, "What little trick?"

"Did you really think that it was Ge Yao who took the potatoes? Wrong, it was Ren Xuling! Feng Liping also said that she and Ge Yao had never met before. She was busy with work that day, but only caught a glimpse of a silhouette or a back. That's all, so she took Ren Xuling, who looked similar and wore the same clothes, as Ge Yao for granted. In fact, Ge Yao was no longer alive at that time." I took a sip of water, "The story is almost like this: Ren Xuling and Ge Yao Yao agreed to meet at two o'clock in the afternoon instead of three o'clock in the afternoon. After arriving at the swimming pool, Ren Xuling took advantage of Ge Yao's unpreparedness and drowned her. During the process, she also splashed a lot of water on her body. So she took off Throwing the wet clothes by the pool, let them be soaked, and then put on the clean school uniform that Ge Yao put on the deck chair. Then, she ran to the kitchen and took two potatoes, trying to divert the attention of the police. Then She went to meet some teachers and went to the hot spring together. While soaking in the hot spring, she found an opportunity to stuff potatoes into Sun Liang's bag. This is another childish failure, trying to blame others, but instead Let me further confirm that she is the real murderer. The reason why I say she is naive is because the success of her whole plan depends on luck. If Ge Yao's body is found before 2:30, according to Feng Liping's testimony, Ren Xuling will immediately She would be discovered, and she couldn’t escape even if she wanted to. Also, if Feng Liping hadn’t been busy washing dishes and caught Ren Xuling, then she would have been spotted too—even if they are somewhat similar, they are two people after all. It is still easy to distinguish.

"As for the motive? We all know that once a test taker is discovered, both of them will be severely punished, and Ren Xuling's university admission qualification will be revoked. She told me that Ge Yao is a straightforward girl. Because of this, she I was worried that my secret would be revealed by Ge Yao, so I wanted to kill people to silence my secrets. But at this time, there was a problem I still couldn't figure out, that is why Ren Xuling asked Ge Yao to take the college entrance examination for her. Chen Xinye said that she There is no problem at all in being admitted to a first-class university. It is nothing more than whether she can get the first place in the autonomous region. Is this top scorer in the college entrance examination so important to her? Besides, Ge Yao is not a fool, so she naturally knows the seriousness of taking the exam. Even if she is a good friend , will she easily agree to such a thing?" "I don't understand either." Qin Siwei said, "And how did Ren Xuling arrange for her to be attacked? This is too unbelievable. Could it be that she was the one who killed Principal Zheng...Is it impossible? She had been upstairs when the incident happened Now, does she have an accomplice who did this for her?" "I told you a long time ago that those are two different things - Ge Yao's death is one thing; Ren Xuling's attack and Principal Zheng's death are another. Although there are some connections, they must be viewed separately. "I said, "Ren Xuling's attack really shocked me. Yes, she couldn't arrange this. If I didn't happen to be by, she would definitely die. But it was this incident that made me notice this. Another important person in the case-Principal Zheng. "Principal Zheng's long-cherished wish in his life is to train a champion in the college entrance examination. This is well known in Jingpeng Experimental High School. However, seeing that retirement is approaching, and he himself is terminally ill, this long-cherished wish that has never been realized has become the principal's heart. In order to get a top scorer in the college entrance examination, he has reached the point of paranoia. I think he originally pinned his hopes on Ge Yao, and Ge Yao wanted to register for the college entrance examination in advance was also instructed by the principal. Give it up. But Principal Zheng still has a plan B. This plan is the last bargaining chip for him to realize his dream, so he started to prepare it very early—that is, the so-called militarized management. In fact, changing clothes and cutting hair can't cultivate champions , Principal Zheng is very clear about this. But the biggest advantage of militarized management is that it can make all the girls in the school look similar, especially the two girls, Ren Xuling and Ge Yao, who are somewhat similar." "You...you mean, Principal Zheng arranged for Ge Yao to take the college entrance examination instead of Ren Xuling? The purpose is to get a top scorer in the college entrance examination before he dies?" Old Gu looked like he was about to collapse. "That's right. I've already checked. In recent years, the college entrance examination in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region has been arranged for random ranking by computers in the school district. This year, Ren Xuling was arranged to take the exam at Jingpeng No. 3 Middle School. The result of the random ranking is a Almost all the candidates in the examination room were candidates from different schools, and no one knew anyone else. This arrangement is very beneficial to Principal Zheng’s plan. In fact, even if there are one or two students from Experimental High School taking the same test as Ge Yao, there is no need to worry. Because the college entrance examination It is a matter of future and destiny, everyone is on the alert, and no one has time to observe other candidates. But Principal Zheng is still worried, so he simply takes Ren Xuling to his home and drives him every day. In fact, no one thought that he would pick up Ge Yao. And the will he made before was also to persuade Ge Yao to take the exam instead of Ren Xuling. Ge Yao’s family is poor, and it is important for her to have a sum of money to support her to finish college, and to have money for her father’s medical treatment in the future. It is undoubtedly a great temptation. I think it is for this reason that she agreed to the principal's request. As for Ren Xuling, she can go to college without taking the exam, and even get a top scorer in the college entrance examination out of thin air. A fool would not like it. But Principal Zheng After all the calculations, I didn't expect Ren Xuling, a little girl who usually doesn't like to talk, to be so vicious. To be honest, I thought it was unimaginable at first. "I think, when he heard the news of Ge Yao's murder, Principal Zheng immediately understood what was going on. He never thought that Ge Yao would be killed because of his stubbornness towards the number one student in the college entrance examination. Out of grief and indignation, he decided to Put an end to the crime he caused by himself, and then kill himself. So, he took away Teacher Li and us, sneaked into the corridor, and threw the fire extinguisher. Unfortunately, God did not give him this opportunity. I saved Ren Xuling's life. Principal Zheng knew that you would soon find his fingerprints on the fire extinguisher, and he had no strength to do anything else. So, he left an obscure suicide note and jumped from the window. He That's right, the tragedy of forgetting to return to the hotel was caused by him alone. Just for a false name, he carefully designed a scam. And also in order to keep that false name, Ren Xuling even sacrificed the life of his friend." "Then why didn't the principal tell us directly that Ren Xuling was the murderer?" Old Gu rubbed his head, "My God! Could such a thing happen?" "He is concerned about the reputation of Experimental High School." Qin Siwei nodded as if thinking of something, "If Ren Xuling is accused, then the matter of taking the test will be exposed. He can say that it is his personal behavior, but no one will I believe it. The school and even the school district will be implicated. President Zheng has been teaching in Experimental High School since he graduated from university, and he has a deep affection for the school. Because his one-sided mistake ruined the school's reputation accumulated over the years, he really doesn't want to see that happen .In my opinion, he regretted it very much in the end but had no other choice, so he left such a suicide note, neither explicitly admitting nor denying it." "I don't believe it!" Lao Gu slapped the table and shouted, "You are all guessing, there is no proof!" "Here's the evidence." I picked up a page from the coffee table and handed it to him. "Sodium silicate...sulfuric acid...sodium, non-ionic...surfactant? Poly...carboxylate? Chlorine bleach..." Lao Gu read the data above awkwardly, "what is this?" "The inspection report on Ren Xuling's school uniform." I said, "I took the school uniform from her room when you were all downstairs. Because there was no reliable evidence to support my inference at the time, I thought After much deliberation, the only thing that might help me was the school uniform. After returning to Beijing, I asked a friend who was engaged in chemistry to do a test for me, and found out the above ingredients from a stain on the school uniform. I I don’t know much about chemistry, and my friend told me that it is a kind of dishwashing powder used in hotel kitchens. Ren Xuling’s clothes should not have these things. But according to Feng Liping’s testimony, Ge Yao washed dishes in the kitchen before he was killed. So , that school uniform should belong to Ge Yao, which also verified my previous judgment." Old Gu stopped talking. "After I got the test results, I sent the school uniform to Ren Xuling. She is a smart child, and she should understand the subtext in it—someone already knows that she is the real murderer." I continued, "I want to force her to turn herself in. Of course, if she is still obsessed, I will ask Siwei to tell you the inspection report and what happened. Unexpectedly, Ren Xuling committed suicide. Maybe she also regrets doing such a thing, and indirectly killed the principal. I don’t want to suffer from my conscience anymore. But fortunately, she didn’t die. Otherwise, I would feel uneasy.” "You should have told me earlier." Lao Gu said a little displeased, "I haven't closed my eyes for the past few days, just thinking about this case. Who would have thought that you all knew what was going on." "It's not us, it's her." Qin Siwei corrected, "I've been kept in the dark too. She won't tell me when I ask her, she always says it's too late." "I just made an inference, like an exquisite dish without salt, meaningless. I have to wait for the test results of the school uniform to determine whether I am right or wrong." I stared at the chrysanthemum petals floating in the teacup, " Honestly, I hope I'm wrong, though that's a plausible explanation any way you look at it."