Chapter 17 Chapter 1 Young Girl Suicide

A jug of wine among the flowers, drinking alone without a blind date. Raise your glass to invite the bright moon, and make three people face each other. The moon does not drink, and the shadow follows me. 暂伴月将影，But still for a while I want to accompany the moon, 行乐须及春。 I should be to enjoy life in the spring. My singing moon wanders, my dancing shadow is chaotic. 醒时同交欢，Pursue pleasure when I am awake, 醉后各分散。 When drunken I reel, our companionship ends. Forever and ruthless travel, we will meet each other for a long time. After carefully savoring this song "Drinking Alone under the Moon", you can fully feel Li Bai's loneliness.In front of the bright moon, among the fragrant flowers, it is so helpless and lonely to invite the moon to drink with my own shadow on such a beautiful day.However, in the poet's eyes, loneliness can also be a kind of enjoyment, at least there are shadows for company.

Everyone has their own shadow, who is not only loyal, but also inseparable. If you regard the shadow as a friend, you will naturally not feel lonely.However, what kind of terrifying experience would it be if accompanied by an evil ghost that suddenly appeared in the mirror instead of a familiar shadow? My humble servant, Mu Shenyu, is a criminal policeman who belongs to the Mystery Team, which specializes in dealing with weird cases.Because of my work, I often come into contact with some bizarre cases. In this next case, I will deal with an evil ghost hiding in the mirror... "Do you feel pressure?" Viagra suddenly raised an inexplicable question, and then complained to us, "Since I was recruited by the boss to work as a temporary worker, I have spent every day in data entry without technical content. Among them, it’s no different from doing physical work. I think I just need to make up a Trojan horse at the beginning, and I can stand up and wait for the money. Whenever there is new hardware that uses new technology, no matter how BT the price is, I will get it as soon as possible. Come back and study. But now? I can't even afford to change the CPU! As the greatest hacker of this century, I feel a lot of pressure."

Although Viagra often complains that he is the only temporary worker in the crime squad, and that the boss does not allow him to do any illegal activities, even downloading pirated software, we have long been familiar with this.However, this time his complaint rarely resonated with everyone.And the one who responded first was Xueqing, who had always been taciturn. "Well, I also feel a lot of pressure." Although Xueqing didn't explain the source of the pressure, I guess the pressure she mentioned should refer to Fu Bin. Since he cooperated with Fu Bin last time, he always finds opportunities to come over for a stroll.Although he had different excuses every time, the purpose was very obvious, which was to mend the relationship with Xueqing.However, the effect seems to be unsatisfactory, and Xueqing still ignores him to this day.

Zhen Zhen also complained to everyone, saying that many classmates and relatives and friends got married recently, and every time she attended a wedding banquet, someone would always ask her about her love life, and even offered to introduce some young talents to her.Especially her aunt, every time she meets her father, Uncle Xia, she always asks: "Has Xiao Zhen talked about a boyfriend?" as if she is afraid that she won't get married.This made her feel very annoyed, she was only 24 years old, did she need to be so anxious about marriage? As soon as Zhenzhen finished speaking, Viagra and Miaomiao's eyes immediately fell on me, as if I should take full responsibility for it.Zhen Zhen also realized that this topic was too sensitive, and her face immediately turned rosy.To avoid embarrassment, I immediately changed the topic and told everyone that I was also under a lot of pressure.Because the boss always asks to solve the case within a time limit, and in his eyes, it is right to solve the case, and if he fails to solve the case, he will be punished, so he always threatens me with various punishments.

"I also feel a lot of pressure..." Miaomiao, who has always been regarded as having no troubles, even frowned after hearing our complaints.When we were curious about her troubles, the boss came in from the outside and raised the folder in his hand, "Will your pressure be greater than this six-year-old girl?" After saying that, he threw the file to me. After I flipped through the files, I couldn't help frowning and said, "A six-year-old kid actually hanged himself in a phone booth? That's ridiculous!" The boss nodded and said, "It's really ridiculous, but according to the evidence at the scene, there is no possibility of homicide. Although the colleague who handled the case claimed to the family of the deceased that it was an accident, when he said this, he had no idea."

"It wasn't homicide, nor was it an accident, so it could only be suicide. But, is it possible for a six-year-old girl to commit suicide?" Zhen Zhen also frowned. "If I knew, would I still be wasting taxpayers' money to pay you wages?" The boss widened his small eyes and growled, "Hurry up and investigate!" Zhen Zhen and I fled amidst the roar of the boss, and when we got to the door, we heard Viagra ask Miao Miao in a low voice: "What pressure do you have?" Miaomiao frowned, and replied sadly: "I've been thinking about it all morning and I still haven't figured it out. Should I eat sushi with my friends tonight, or eat PIZZA?"

Hearing Miaomiao's answer, I almost didn't fall down, but Viagra's next words made me vomit blood even more: "Take me too, I've eaten instant noodles for three days." According to the data, the crime took place in a telephone booth in front of a stationery store opposite the County Experimental Middle School.The deceased, a six-year-old girl named Cai Shaomeng, was found with her neck stuck on a telephone wire and had stopped breathing.Although at the height of the deceased, the neck cannot reach the height of the telephone line when standing.However, under the telephone booth, a steel pipe 30 centimeters above the ground has the shoe prints of the deceased. From this, it can be deduced that the deceased may have climbed up on the steel pipe and stretched his neck to the telephone line to "suicide".However, is it possible for a six-year-old girl to commit suicide?

The deceased lived next to the stationery store, but it was Tan Hao, the proprietress of the stationery store, who first discovered the matter.Therefore, Zhen Zhen and I first went to the stationery store to understand the situation. We walked into a stationery store that was only three meters away from the phone booth where the crime occurred, and found that there were not many stationery for sale here, and more toys of all kinds were placed in the store.I asked the owner Tan Hao about the situation of the deceased. When she talked about it, she seemed very confused: "It's so strange, I still can't believe that Shaomeng is dead."

"Are you familiar with the dead?" I asked. "I could say I watched her grow up..." She sighed softly, and then told us something about the deceased— Probably two years ago, Lao Cai opened a restaurant next door with his family.At that time, Shaomeng was only three or four years old, but she was better-behaved than other children of the same age. She seldom cried and would not hinder others from doing things.Because we are neighbors, and we are all doing student business, so when the students are in class, Shaomeng will come to play with me. The little girl is very curious about everything, and as you can see, my place is full of toys, so every time she comes over, she will stare at the toys in the store with bright eyes.I knew she wanted to play with these toys, but she didn't just play with whatever she saw or pester her parents to buy this and that, like other children.She is very well-behaved and never messes with my things. If she wants to play anything, she will first ask me if I can play.Of course, when she first moved here, she didn't speak very fluently. At that time, she usually pointed at the things she wanted to play with, looked at me expectantly, and called me "auntie" timidly.

If other wild children came to play, I usually chased them away impatiently, but she was the only exception.And seeing that she is so cute, I often give her some small toys.Her favorite is Pleasant Goat. Every time I give her something from Pleasant Goat, she will be happy for a long time, even if I give her just a small sticker. Alas, now I can no longer see her innocent smile... She shook her head and sighed, feeling as sad as the loss of a loved one.Zhen Zhen comforted her not to be too sad, after all, people cannot be resurrected after death.After she calmed down a little, I asked her about the situation when the incident happened.

"Actually, I didn't know what was going on at the time..." After thinking for a while, she told us about the situation at that time—— It was evening at that time, and the students had already returned to school for evening classes, and the streets were very deserted.There is usually no business at this time on weekdays, so I didn't care about the outside situation and concentrated on watching TV.It was around 7:35, and a regular customer walked into the store. He was very strange when he came in, and looked back while walking.I asked him what happened?He pointed to the phone booth outside and said, "What happened to the little girl?" I looked at the phone booth and saw Shaomeng standing there. Shaomeng is a child who is afraid of the dark, and usually won't run out to play alone at night, so I just took a few more glances.I didn't see a problem at first, but the more I looked at it, the more it seemed wrong, because her hands were hanging down, and she should not be so tall.I thought there were bricks or something under her feet, but when I looked under her feet, I found that her feet were hanging in the air. Realizing that something had happened, I couldn't help screaming, and ran over immediately.However, when I ran to the phone booth, it was already too late... After listening to her narration, I raised two questions, one is whether the time she said is accurate, and the other is who is this "regular customer"? For these two questions, she gave the answer without thinking: "It was not long after the news broadcast was broadcast, it should be around 7:35, and the error will not exceed one minute. As for the people who came to buy things, It’s Wang Xi, a teacher from Wangcun Elementary School. He likes to write with a brush, and he often comes to me to buy ink, rice paper, etc. Not long ago, he asked me to buy some good quality rice paper for him. These rice papers came. But he might have been frightened, so he left without buying anything that night." Zhen Zhen looked at the busy street outside and asked, "Did no one else find out what happened to the deceased?" Tan Hao shook his head and said: "No, students have to study late at night, and the whole street will become very deserted when it gets dark, and it will only be lively after school." Tan Hao didn't find anything special, so we walked to the Lao Cai Restaurant next door, preparing to ask the family of the deceased about the situation. It was dinner time, but when we entered the restaurant, we found that the store was very deserted, with only two men and two women inside.One of the old people who was clearing the tables and chairs saw us coming in and told us that the restaurant is closed now and that they had to go somewhere else if they wanted to eat. After I revealed my identity and purpose to him, I learned that he was Zhou Jian, the grandfather of the deceased.He told me that since their granddaughter's accident, they have no intention of continuing to run the restaurant, and are planning to transfer it to someone else, and then the family will return to their hometown. The fact may be true as he said, the restaurant seemed to be shrouded in a gloomy mist, a man was sitting at a table near the kitchen, staring blankly at the photo in his hand, and the ashtray on the table was full of cigarette butts.I think he should be Cai Heng, the father of the deceased.The deceased's mother, Zhou Qiong, sat blankly in the corner, tears of grief running across her pale face silently.And Zhou Jian's wife wiped the table repeatedly with mechanical movements, as if to numb the sadness in her heart. I sat down opposite Cai Heng, said a few words of comfort, and then asked him about the deceased.He didn't answer me immediately, and he didn't even look away from the photo in his hand, as if he didn't hear me at all, and continued to smoke one cigarette after another.After a long silence, he suddenly said: "It can't be an accident, Shaomeng must have been murdered!" "Why did you say that?" I asked. "It can't be an accident, it's definitely not an accident..." He lit another cigarette, perhaps because he was too excited, his hands trembled a little, "Shaomeng is very afraid of the dark, and she wouldn't dare to go outside alone after dark. If someone tells her to go out, she will definitely stay in the house obediently." "Mr. Cai, although I also think that Ling Ai's death may be strange, but I can't use your subjective judgment as evidence." I also lit a cigarette and asked softly: "Can you explain the situation at that time in detail?" tell us?" He stubbed out his cigarette and scratched his head with both hands in distress.After a moment of silence, he opened his mouth to tell us about the situation at that time—— The dinner market had just ended that day, my wife and my parents-in-law were cleaning the shop, and I was cooking dinner for everyone in the kitchen.Everyone was so busy that no one had time to take care of Shaomeng, so she had to watch TV alone in the back hall.She was like that every night, obediently staying alone in the back hall. She had never had any problems before, but something happened that night. It should be around 7:30, and I heard Shaomeng talking to someone.I originally wanted to see who came in in the back hall, but I was cooking and couldn't leave for a while.I think it should be the children next door who come to play with her, and usually there are children who come to play with her, so I don't care.But I never expected that she would have an accident just during the cooking time. About ten minutes later, my father-in-law rushed in and said to me: "Something happened to Shaomeng, go out and have a look." I threw the spoon and ran out immediately. As soon as I went out, I saw Shaomeng lying next to the phone booth. Woman is blowing into her mouth.Mother-in-law and Sister Tan next door were also standing there. I ran over to ask my mother-in-law what was going on, but she burst into tears and couldn't even speak clearly, so I had to ask Sister Tan.Sister Tan told me that Shaomeng's neck was stuck on the phone line for some reason, and when she found out, Shaomeng's hands and feet were already cold... Just like I asked Tan Haoshi before, after listening to Cai Heng's narration, I also raised two questions, one is the accuracy of the time, and the other is whether it is certain that outsiders have entered the back hall. For the first question, he gave me an affirmative answer and explained: "I steamed a fish that night. In order not to steam the fish too old, I would check the time every time I steamed the fish. I just steamed the fish that night. Put the fish into the steamer, and then I heard Shaomeng talking to others, the time must be 7:30." Regarding the second question, he is also very sure: "Shaomeng usually doesn't talk to herself for no reason. When I heard her talking in the back hall, someone must have come in. And she is very afraid of the dark. If someone didn't come in Tell her to go out, she will never run outside alone." I followed him into the back hall to check, and found that there was a door leading to the street outside, and the kitchen was next to the back hall.It stands to reason that if someone comes in and talks to Shaomeng, he should be able to hear it.However, this must be done quietly. The kitchen is not a quiet place, and various kitchen utensils such as the steamer and the exhaust fan will make a lot of noise.And more importantly, he only heard Shaomeng's voice, but not any voice from the outsider he was talking about.If someone really came to find Shaomeng, it would be impossible not to say a word. Although he repeatedly emphasized that someone must have come in and called Shaomeng outside, the arguments he put forward were not convincing.Even though I think this case is very suspicious, judging from the current situation, Shaomeng's death may indeed be just an accident. "Call! Before Shaomeng's accident, there was a suspicious call from the phone booth!" Maybe because I didn't believe in the hypothesis of an outsider, he suddenly threw out another reason to support his statement. According to information, at 7:32 on the night of the accident, there was a missed call from the phone booth.The colleague who handled the case before investigated the call and found out that it was from a stored-value mobile phone number, which was activated the day before the incident. Except for the phone booth where the incident occurred, no calls were made to any number. used. Colleagues handling the case believed the call was a coincidence and had nothing to do with the case.I think that when he recorded this judgment, he probably didn't think so in his heart.However, the caller was a bearer stored-value card, so it was impossible to find out who the user was, and naturally it was impossible to use this as a clue to track down.Therefore, we had no choice but to muddle through on this key doubtful point. Although Cai Heng believes that Shaomeng was murdered, we haven't been able to find any clues to help the investigation at this stage, so we have to leave first. Just when we said goodbye to Cai Heng and were about to leave, Zhou Qiong, who had been sitting in the corner and weeping, suddenly murmured to himself: "Shaomeng must have been killed, otherwise it would be impossible to die in just ten days." Eight children died in succession, and all of them were named Cai..."