Chapter 11 Chapter Ten: The Bizarre Woman Who Falls into the River

Yue Mingfei made too much of a gimmick and whetted my appetite. If he doesn't say anything, I'll cut his tongue off with scissors.Whether this matter is minor or serious, it is not good for anyone to hide it.Besides, the relationship between Yue Mingfei and Jin Lele is very ordinary, so he won't agree to keep it secret just because of a few sweet words. Sure enough, Yue Mingfei made sure that I closed the door tightly, so he told me in a low voice, after he caught Jin Lele, he immediately asked how did he get the phone.Jin Lele was caught, if he didn't tell the truth, he would definitely not be able to explain clearly.Yue Mingfei grabbed Jin Lele viciously, and asked her if she was the one who stuffed the note, but Jin Lele denied that these things had anything to do with her, and she was just an insider.

"An insider?" I snorted, feeling that the words were polite. Yue Mingfei seemed to be serious about it, seeing my sour look, he turned off the light, and the room was plunged into darkness immediately.The wounds on my body haven't been powdered yet, and the pain is so painful that I want to call my mother, but in order to know the ins and outs of these things, I let Yue Mingfei make his own decisions.Speaking of which, Yue Mingfei wanted to know who the culprit was more than I did, so he kept asking Jin Lele what she was doing at the reservoir at night. On weekdays, Jin Lele likes the right and wrong of Taoists the most, and also likes to inquire about other people's privacy. She claims that she only discovered the secret of Second Master Tang not long ago.When Second Master Tang died strangely, Jin Lele checked for a few days by herself, but the result exceeded her expectation.It just so happened that Jin Lele was short of money, so she thought to herself that since she got someone else's handle, she might as well blackmail her to satisfy her vanity of spending money lavishly.Tonight, Jin Lele dared to go to the reservoir alone because she wanted to exchange the mobile phone she found for favors with someone. She also opened the mobile phone, otherwise she would not be able to locate it.

"She found out? So these things have nothing to do with her?" I was surprised, and at the same time thought, this is reasonable, Jin Lele is such a virtue. "I didn't believe it at first, but later Jin Lele told me that she once sent text messages to you and Tang Ziyue using Tang Erye's mobile phone, telling you to go to the old ferry to guard, because the famous person will appear..." "Wait! What are you talking about?" I asked in surprise, "Jin Lele sent the text message telling us to go to Laoduchang? , I didn't see her using the mobile phone and you just said that she didn't steal the mobile phone, so how could she have Mr. Tang's mobile phone?"

"I'm not sure about that. Since she said that, and she's right, she should have done it." Yue Mingfei sat by the bed and said to me. I stood by the table, it took me a long time to get used to the darkness, I vaguely saw Yue Mingfei's silhouette, and then asked: "Then why did Jin Lele send me and Tang Ziyue such text messages?" "Only in this way can the person who is involved in the famous hall believe that she knows all the secrets, and that person will give the money willingly." Yue Mingfei explained. "No! Even if during dinner that day, Jin Lele might have secretly sent a text message while I wasn't paying attention, and I could barely explain it." I thought about it, "But don't forget, when we came back from the crematorium that day, I answered When the call came from Tang Erye's mobile phone, there was a woman calling for help. Jin Lele was sitting in the car at that time, why did she call for help to threaten us?"

Yue Mingfei shrugged his shoulders in the dark, and said frankly: "I didn't think about it that much, and she didn't explain it. Seeing that I asked in a hurry, she told me to go back to you first, because the person who jumped out from behind was very annoying." It's dangerous, if you're one step too late, you'll be dead, and Master Tang also died at the hands of that person." "So you're back?" I asked dryly. "I'm afraid you will be beaten to death! You don't know, when I saw you lying by the water, I really thought you were dead, and almost scared me to death!" Yue Mingfei paused, and then said, "Actually, I What I miss the most is the statue. I asked Jin Lele if she put a note in me to threaten me, but she denied it, and said that Li Xiaoai is not mysterious, because each of us has seen Li Xiaoai before. Just not paying attention."

"Have each of us met Li Xiaoai?" I asked repeatedly, "Who is it? No one at the ferry is named Li?" "I do not know either." Yue Mingfei didn't know anything about it. It's better to ask Jin Lele directly if you ask him. I couldn't sit still anymore, so I turned around and opened the door, ready to go to Jin Lele to find out.Yue Mingfei didn't stop me, seeing that I was going out, he followed closely.Although our goals are not exactly the same, we both want to know the truth, Yue Mingfei concealed it just now, but he couldn't explain clearly for a while, he still remembered my injury.Now that everyone is asleep, and the night is quiet, it is a good time to "extort a confession".The two of us walked quietly to Jin Lele's room one after the other, trying to see if she had come back, but found that the door was not closed.

"The door isn't closed, the lights aren't on? What kind of trick is she trying to do!" I snorted. Yue Mingfei pushed the door open and turned on the light, but there was no one inside.I glanced into the room, everything on the bed was neat and tidy, it seemed that Jin Lele hadn't come back yet.Suddenly, I was a little worried, and asked Yue Mingfei again, if Jin Lele's head injury was not serious, could it be that she didn't walk back and passed out halfway.Yue Mingfei vehemently denied that Jin Lele was only injured on the skin, and he knew how to handle it carefully.

"Then why hasn't she come back yet?" I asked suspiciously, "Could it be that what she said was a lie to you, and she has fled in fear of crime?" "How is it possible! What she said can be clearly explained, such as telling you and Tang Ziyue to go to the old ferry to arrest someone. The other person who sprang out tonight is very dangerous and will kill you..." "That person didn't want to kill me, but saved me!" I corrected. Yue Mingfei ignored me, but said in amazement: "Look! There are a lot of books on Jin Lele's desk. I never knew she reads books. I thought she only read magazines!"

I turned around and looked at the desk, where there were dozens of books. I looked again and found that it was "The Complete Works of Agatha Christie", and it was the edition of Guizhou People's Publishing House.Some time ago, Tang Ziyue mentioned this British female detective novelist, and I just got to know this foreign writer, so I know that this edition of the book is very precious, much more valuable than ordinary books. You know, it wasn't until 1992, when China formally joined the Universal Copyright Convention, that Agatha Christie's "chaotic phenomenon" published in China was stopped.In October 1998, Guizhou People's Publishing House released 80 volumes of "The Complete Works of Agatha Christie" (actually not all), because the copyright expired and could not be reprinted, this Guizhou version of "Agatha Christie" "Complete Works" is out of print, and the prices of used books have risen.It is said that a set of the Guizhou edition has already sold for 20,000 yuan online, and a single classic can even sell for 600 yuan.

"This set of books is so expensive? Isn't she short of money, how can she afford it?" Yue Mingfei was very surprised when I said this. I nodded and said: "If Tang Ziyue's sister saw it, I don't know how happy she would be, but Jin Lele doesn't seem like a person who loves reading. After all, none of us has ever entered Jin Lele's room. What kind of people are down there?" "It's true." Yue Mingfei agreed. I glanced outside the door first, but I didn’t see anyone coming back, and then I looked at the pile of detective novels on the desk. At this time, I found that one of the 80 novels was missing, and there were only 79 novels. Detective Poirot is the protagonist of "The Dumb Witness", and the great detective Poirot is also the most vivid and classic character in Agatha's works.The reason why I can see it at a glance is because I have put in some effort some time ago and studied some of Agatha's works, so that when I chat with Tang Ziyue in the future, I can talk about topics that she is interested in - of course, this purpose is obscene .

"Less less, maybe she's in the office." Yue Mingfei didn't care. "Maybe." As I was talking, I pulled out a book "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" (also known as "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd"), which is also a novel with the great detective Poirot as the main character. A quote from this book was once quoted: The detective never knows anyone, whoever he is.To the detective, all people are strangers, all possible objects of suspicion. "What time is it, you are still in the mood to read!" Yue Mingfei asked in confusion. When I heard this, I stuffed the book back, stopped thinking about Tang Ziyue, and poked my head out of the room to see if Jin Lele had come back.At this time, Jia Xiazi had already taken a bath and went to bed again.The entire ferry was dead silent, and even the sound of Jiang Tao could not be heard.Jin Lele didn't come back for a long time, I don't know if something happened, I gradually became worried.Yue Mingfei was also a little guilty, he didn't dare to look at me, and asked in a low voice if he wanted to go back and find someone. I said angrily: "You still said that the attack was not serious, maybe she passed out on the road. It's all right now, the person is gone, and you didn't ask to understand." "I reacted instinctively at that time. How can you blame me? Besides, I went back to save you. You think I don't want to drag Jin Lele to sit on the grass and ask questions slowly from beginning to end?" Yue Mingfei was also angry. "Forget it, the key now is to find Jin Lele, and we'll talk about the rest later." I have a bad premonition in my heart that something may have happened to Jin Lele. Since she knows all the secrets, the most cunning person will definitely not be left alive.Yue Mingfei injured Jin Lele first, if others beat him more, wouldn't it be easy for him to be blamed?I hope that I have persecution paranoia, otherwise the mystery of preparing to see the moon will be clouded again.The hateful thing is that Yue Mingfei doesn't understand the seriousness of the matter, if he had told me earlier, maybe we could have brought Jin Lele back together. Thinking of this, I came to my senses, and then said nervously: "Oops! Let's go, turn off the lights!" "What's wrong?" Yue Mingfei still didn't understand. "Don't ask, let's go!" I turned off the light and slipped out quickly. "What happened?" Yue Mingfei asked while running. "If Jin Lele is killed, then you are the biggest suspect. You haven't told me the truth just now, and even I would suspect that you killed someone, let alone the others. Let's break in now Entering Jin Lele's room and leaving fingerprints or other traces, it would be too easy to convict." I said nervously. "Aren't you like Tang Ziyue, who read too many novels about Detective Big Pineapple?" Yue Mingfei didn't believe it. "It's Detective Poirot! Not Big Pineapple!" After I finished speaking, I said, "How did the door be opened? Isn't this just waiting for us to walk into a trap?" After some deliberation, we first called Jin Lele's cell phone, but no one answered.After Yue Mingfei finished giving me the medicine, he asked in disbelief if he wanted to go back to the reservoir again.After waiting for a long time, Jin Lele didn't come back, and I couldn't sit still anymore, so I and Yue Mingfei hurried back to Yishan Reservoir quietly.However, we didn't find Jin Lele, Yue Mingfei led me to the woods at the foot of the mountain, there was no ghost.It was almost dawn, and we walked back to the ferry in resentment, but Jin Lele's room was still empty, and she hadn't come back yet. We were so tired that our eyelids were fighting, and we fell asleep when we couldn't hold on anymore, planning to think about these things tomorrow.Sleeping in a daze until noon, I was woken up by the ringing of the mobile phone, and I thought to myself, is Jin Lele going to pretend to be a ghost with Tang Erye's mobile phone again, and now he is willing to show up?I struggled to sit up, grabbed the phone and looked at it, and was immediately stunned - it wasn't from Erye Tang's phone, nor Jin Lele, it was another person. The person who called was Qin Wang. Except for salvaging corpses or criminal evidence, I never contacted him in private.Seeing Qin Wang's number, I subconsciously thought, is Jin Lele really dead, and now he was found floating on the Yi River?The bell kept ringing, I hurriedly got up, answered the phone, Qin Wang talked a lot of words, and then urged me to hurry up and call the people from the ferry to go to the People's Hospital together. I hung up the phone and couldn't calm down for a long time. Sure enough, something happened to Jin Lele. Fortunately, she didn't die.On the phone, Qin Wang told me that he couldn't get in touch with Captain Hu, and he couldn't make a phone call, so he came to me.Then, Qin Wang also told me that in the early morning of this morning, the fisherman Zhang Dahu got up to fish, and found a woman by the river, her lower body was soaked in the water, her hands were holding on to the grass, trying her best not to sink herself.Zhang Dahu ran over and turned the woman over, and it took him a while to recognize that it was Jin Lele, a ferry worker.Zhang Dahu was startled, and hurriedly called the police. After Qin Wang arrived, he was sent to the hospital for emergency treatment. Now Jin Lele is not out of danger. I forced myself to calm down, went out and found Yue Mingfei, and asked, "Where's Captain Hu?" "There's no one there." Yue Mingfei was doing push-ups in the room, and answered as he did it, "What's wrong?" "Qin Wang called me just now, saying that Zhang Dahu found Jin Lele by the river, and now she has been sent to the hospital for emergency treatment." I said anxiously. "Jin Lele is in the hospital?" Yue Mingfei bounced off the ground and asked fiercely, "Is she dead? Could it be that my attack was too harsh?" "I don't know either. Qin Wang didn't go into too much detail. Now you can go with me to the hospital to see the situation." I worried, and asked, "By the way, where are Mrs. Han and Blind Jia?" "Sister-in-law Han went to the market to buy vegetables, but she hasn't come back yet; Blind Jia went for a walk in the morning, but hasn't come back yet." Yue Mingfei grabbed his clothes, put them on, and said anxiously, "Leave them alone, let's go to the hospital first." "Are you sure you didn't knock him out and throw him into the river?" I asked again worriedly. Yue Mingfei was annoyed by the questioning, so he swore viciously: "If I knock him out and throw him into the river, I will have no offspring and grandchildren, and I will die!" Actually, I don't want to doubt my friend, it's just that Yue Mingfei concealed it for a while last night, his behavior was indeed suspicious.If Jia Xiazi hadn't bumped into me in the bathroom at night, I'm afraid I wouldn't have known that Jin Lele was not at the ferry, and I would have seen through Yue Mingfei's lies.When the two of us hurried to the People's Hospital in the town, Qin Wang was waiting for us at the door, which made me feel bad.Under normal circumstances, Qin Wang hoped that major events would be reduced to minor ones, and would not bother with such matters. He hadn't even seriously investigated the death of Second Master Tang. "You are finally here." Qin Wang smiled inscrutablely. "How is Jin Lele now?" I asked nervously. "The situation is not optimistic. She is still in the operating room." Qin Wang stood in the hospital lobby and said, "The doctor told me just now that although after rescue, Jin Lele had a heartbeat, but because she was bored in the water for a long time Severe brain hypoxia, generally speaking, brain cells will die after 4 to 6 minutes of brain hypoxia, so she is likely to become a vegetative state, and she may have to rely on machines to maintain her breathing in the future." "So serious? Didn't it mean that when Zhang Dahu found Jin Lele, her upper body was on the water?" Yue Mingfei asked in shock. "She struggled to climb up from the water, but her bodily functions were damaged too badly. It would be good if she survived, but it's not sure yet." After Qin Wang finished speaking, he stared at us with fox-like eyes, as if It's like we pushed Jin Lele into the river. I felt uncomfortably stared at, and wanted to see if Jin Lele had been pushed out of the operating room, but Qin Wang told us to sit down first, he wanted to ask something.As I guessed, Qin Wang suspected that someone injured Jin Lele and pushed him into the river.I wanted to tell the truth, but Yue Mingfei lied first, telling Qin Wang that he slept with me last night and didn't go anywhere.Now that the weather is so hot, which normal person would sleep together, not a husband and wife.Helpless, Yue Mingfei said that first, I can't deny it in front of Qin Wang, it will make Yue Mingfei more suspicious. Fortunately, Qin Wang only questioned us in the hospital, so he must have no evidence, otherwise he would have taken us back to the Public Security Bureau for interrogation.After a while, I saw Jin Lele's parents coming out of the hospital, and I realized in my heart that this is what they strongly demanded to investigate, and Qin Wang was just using us for business.Jin Lele's parents also came from the ferry, and they are now retired. Seeing their daughter suffer such a big crime, they definitely wouldn't think it was an accident. Yue Mingfei and I met Jin Lele's parents for a few times, but we didn't know each other very well. We met in the hospital this time, and they kept asking, why did Jin Lele fall into the river?Where did Hu Jiaheng go? Why didn't he come to the hospital?I called Hu Jiaheng on the way here, but his phone was turned off, and Qin Wang didn't get through either.Jin Lele's parents were crying. The hospital was afraid of affecting the patients, so they sent a few people to escort them to other places so as not to affect other patients.Although Qin Wang was dealing with an errand, he seemed suspicious of us and left after repeatedly confirming our whereabouts last night. Yue Mingfei sat on the chair and heaved a sigh of relief. When I saw this, I asked, "Why didn't you tell the truth? It wasn't you who pushed people down in the first place! Jin Lele must have been killed by someone else!" "How to explain this kind of thing clearly?" Yue Mingfei said with a headache, "You didn't see Qin Wang's appearance, he had preconceived ideas and suspected us from the very beginning." I have nothing to say, Yue Mingfei's words are correct, Qin Wang did regard us as suspects, and I don't know why he has such thoughts.Captain Hu has been missing, so why not suspect him, maybe Qin Wang has evidence in his hand?Yesterday someone opened the door of Jin Lele's room and invited you into the urn. I hope Qin Wang won't check fingerprints or something, otherwise it will be easy to know that we have been to the room. After that, Yue Mingfei and I didn't say a word, we sat quietly on the chair, waiting for Jin Lele to be pushed out of the operating room.At the same time, I thought in my heart that Jin Lele told Yue Mingfei last night that Captain Hu was not at the ferry, which actually revealed her whereabouts.Could it be that Jin Lele said that to leave us clues on purpose?Jin Lele is not a fool, in order to save her life, she must keep a hand in case of accidents.Could it be that the mysterious man is Hu Jiahang?Was it his murder? At this time, Captain Hu came late, and led Mrs. Han and Jia Xiazi to come.When they heard about Jin Lele's situation, everyone sighed and kept asking why Jin Lele fell into the river.I glanced at Captain Hu, he was very calm, unlike me and Yue Mingfei who were flustered, no wonder Qin Wang would doubt us. After everyone sat down, I asked Captain Hu, "Where did you go last night?" Captain Hu didn't even think about it, and immediately replied: "I'm at the ferry." "Qin Wang called you just now, but we couldn't get through, and we couldn't get through either." I asked circumstantially. "My foot injury happened again, and I went to get some medicine. It happened that my phone ran out of battery, so of course you can't contact me." After Captain Hu explained, he immediately changed the subject, "Actually, you can contact Sister Miao, she will be in charge of talking to Qin Hope to communicate with Jin Lele's parents." "I don't even know if Sister Miao is a crossover." I said discouraged. After a while, a doctor came over and told us that Jin Lele had been pushed out of the operating room, but she was still in a critical stage. Even if she survived, she might become a vegetable.Jin Lele had wounds on his forehead and the back of his head, but the doctor couldn't tell if it was from someone hitting him or from falling off a river cliff.Immediately, Yue Mingfei breathed a sigh of relief, as if he had done that.Others wore worried expressions, hiding their secrets behind masks. After the doctor left, Yue Mingfei told me in a low voice that he only injured Jin Lele's forehead, and the injury to the back of the head was definitely not done by him.I was afraid that walls have ears, so I told Yue Mingfei not to talk anymore, and to talk about it in private.After that, everyone sat in the hospital together, guarding Jin Lele, and went to comfort Jin Lele's parents in batches.No one could explain the cause of Jin Lele's accident clearly, and Jin Lele's parents didn't agree that it was an accident, clamoring for the police to find out the truth. Captain Hu was not good at words and couldn't be comforted. After we left, Jin Lele's parents were crying and making noises. They actually asked Qin Wang to take over the case, and even took all of Jin Lele's personal belongings away at the ferry, even pretending conducted on-site reconnaissance.Yue Mingfei and I were in a panic, it's too late to tell the truth, otherwise Jin Lele's parents would definitely regard us as murderers.In fact, we are not the real culprits, why not ask Qin Wang to investigate, maybe we can find more clues than us. After finally getting through this long day, when everyone was eating in the cafeteria at night, they talked about Jin Lele and asked each other where they were last night.I remembered that Yue Mingfei called Jin Lele once, if Qin Wang went to check the call records, how would he explain it?However, I mentioned that matter to Jia Xiazi last night, and he can testify that Yue Mingfei called to buy supper for everyone.As for why Jin Lele lied and was not at the ferry at night, let Qin Wang investigate further. But I really can't imagine that the colleagues at the ferry would be so cruel and put Jin Lele to death. Maybe it was someone outside who did it, but how did the outsiders know so much about the ferry? That night, I saw that Jin Lele's room was empty, and I felt very bad. Although she was at fault, she wouldn't suffer such a big crime.I don't know if the secret collected by Jin Lele is in the room, if it is, Qin Wang should have found out by now.I walked around the ferry by myself, taking a walk beside the grass to breathe, thinking about how to tell Qin Wang all the recent things if he found out the truth, so that he could track down Erye Tang's death. When I passed the office building, I was stunned. The police didn't take away the things in the office. Would Jin Lele hide the secret there?I didn't find any valuable clues in Jin Lele's room last night. She is so shrewd, it is unlikely that she would hide things in the room for the mysterious person to steal.Night had fallen, and I saw that everyone was in the room, so I tiptoed to the window, hooked the key inside, and quietly opened the office.Of course, I didn't think about wearing gloves to prevent fingerprints and the like, because these places are not considered private areas, and people from the ferry have been there, so it's strange that there are no fingerprints. I didn't dare to turn on the lights, I just turned on the screen of my phone and took photos everywhere.There are some newspapers and documents on the desk in the office, which has not been touched.I thought about it, Jin Lele spent a long time in the office, longer than in the dormitory, if there is a secret, she must be hiding here.So, I flipped through the thick and messy stack of documents, and a book emerged from under the documents. "Book?" I curiously pulled out the book and took a closer look. It was "The Dumb Witness" written by Agatha. It turned out that the book missing in Jin Lele's room was here.Ironically, Jin Lele is now a "dumb witness", no matter how many secrets she knew before. At this time, I wanted to put the book back, and an envelope fell out of the pages.I picked it up and saw that the letter had been opened, but the recipient was not Jin Lele, but my name—Huang Dingyi.The location of the ferry is relatively remote, the postman seldom comes here, and Jin Lele receives all the documents.I have been coming to the ferry for so long, and I have never received a letter. I was immediately curious, why did Jin Lele intercept my letter?The postmark delivery address on the envelope is Yishan Town, and the time is May 10. This is the most recent letter. I was puzzled, not knowing who sent me such a letter, so I shook the envelope and dumped the contents on the table.In the dark, I held the poured thing in my hand, looked at it for a few seconds with the dim light of the phone screen, and then suddenly realized that this is the key to Jin Lele knowing all the secrets!