Chapter 27 Chapter nine

Song Jingci rushed out of the restaurant and quickly stopped a taxi. "Sorry, I have to go. I will contact you another day." She got in the car and said to Nie Ming. "I'll go with you." Nie Ming sat beside Song Jingci without waiting for Song Jingci's consent. "Nie Ming, you..." "If the situation is as you said, how can you deal with it alone?" Song Jingci glanced at Nie Ming gratefully, and then said to the driver: "Go to Jiangyuan Road, hurry up!" The car starts to drive quickly towards the destination. Twenty minutes later, they arrived at an elevator apartment building.Song Jingci gave the driver the fare and got off immediately.

Nie Ming and Song Jingci took the elevator to the ninth floor.In the elevator room, Song Jingci stamped her feet anxiously. "Don't worry too much, I don't think it's such a coincidence." Nie Ming comforted. Song Jingci nodded slightly, her brows still furrowed. After the elevator door opened, Song Jingci rushed out quickly. Trembling, she took out the key from her purse and opened the door of Room 902. "Song Yu! Are you there?" Song Jingci shouted after entering the room. She searched in several rooms next to each other.Finally, in a study room, she found her younger brother Song Yu—this fourteen-year-old boy was reading a big thick book.Obviously, the sudden appearance of his sister had taken him by surprise.

Song Jingci hugged her younger brother and let out a long sigh of relief: "Thank God! You're fine." Song Yu was hugged by his sister, but he still had a dull expression and didn't say a word. Seeing this scene, Nie Ming was puzzled: Could it be that Song Yu is a mute? Song Jingci turned her head, saw Nie Ming's confused expression, let go of Song Yu, walked over to Nie Ming and said, "Let's talk in the living room." Nie Ming sat on the high-end European-style leather sofa in the living room, took a cup of tea from Song Jingci, and finally couldn't help asking: "Your brother...can't talk? We called him for so long just now, but he didn't make a sound. "

Song Jingci sat down and sighed: "No, he's not dumb. Not long after he came to our house, he got severe autism. After that, I hardly heard him speak." "He came to your house? So..." Song Jingci nodded: "Yes, he is not my father's son. It is my father's second wife six years ago, who is also the child brought by my stepmother. It was only when he came to our house that he changed his surname to Song. " "So, how is your stepmother doing now?" "A few years after she married into our family, she got a serious illness and died not long after. This hit my father very hard. He attributed the cause of these disasters to himself and believed that he had the right to restrain his wife. So much so that his two wives died within a few years of marrying him. He has been living in self-blame and vowed never to marry again.”

Silent for a few seconds, Nie Ming asked: "Maybe, this is your private matter, I shouldn't ask... But I really want to know why you and Song Yu don't live with your father, but with him Separate and live here alone?" Song Jingci shook her head: "You don't know, my stepmother is ten years younger than my father. After getting her, my father tried every means to please her in order to make her happy. But at the same time, he also ignored me. And Song Yu. In addition, Song Yu didn't pay attention to my father at all at home, but he was closer to me. So, after my stepmother died, Song Yu and I moved here."

Nie Ming nodded, expressing his understanding. "Although the relationship between my father and I has become colder because of this incident, we still visit him every week, and my father has always cared about me. I... will never allow anyone to hurt him!" said At this point, Song Jingci's eyes were full of anger, and her emotions became agitated again. After a while, she calmed down a little: "We are in a very passive situation now, and we don't know what the murderer will do." "Maybe we can act before him," Nie Ming said. "what should we do?"

Nie Ming thought for a while, and said, "You have the notepad left by your father? Take it out, let's study it again, maybe we can find something." "Okay, wait a minute." Song Jingci got up and walked into her room. A minute later, she returned to the living room with the blue notepad. Nie Ming opened the notepad, and read the few messages with unclear meanings again.He asked Song Jingci: "What do you think of these passages?" "I don't understand anything." "But it provides us with some clues." Nie Ming said. "Yes, I noticed that too. The murderer was a man, and possibly someone we knew and were familiar with—"

Having said that, Song Jingci stopped.She rubbed her temple back and forth with the index finger of her left hand, as if thinking of something in a flash. "Why, who do you think of?" Nie Ming asked. "Well... Before, I focused all my attention on you. But now, I have ruled out and completely trusted you. Now that I think about it, there is one person..." She stopped. Nie Ming sat up straight and looked at her. "Let's think about it this way: On the afternoon of the incident, only you, Mrs. Sima, Yu Cheng's younger brother, and my father knew about the fact that 'there is a mysterious black book'. And my father was the only one who read this book." The person with the small book was killed in just three hours, and then the black book was taken—”

"And the murderer is a man." Nie Ming understood a little bit, "It's someone your father knew again." "Have you noticed it too? After being excluded in this way, there is only one person left besides you." "Yu Cheng's younger brother Yu Jie! Do you suspect it's him?" "At least for now, who else is more suspicious than him? Moreover, he also has the motive for committing the crime. After Yu Cheng died, he became the heir of the Yu family. If we assume that this black book says Some secrets about Yu Jie—have you thought about the stakes here?"

"So, he killed your father and took this book—perhaps in order to prevent the secrets written in this black book from leaking out, which would be harmful to him?" "I can only say that this is the most likely speculation at present." "But it's just speculation. We don't have any evidence that he did any of these things." "But at least it gives us something to investigate." Nie Ming frowned and said, "Don't forget, he is now the heir of the Yu family. Why should we two ordinary people approach him? What obligation does he have to cooperate with us?"

Song Jingci thought for a while and said, "I have a solution. My father has worked for the Yu family for decades. There is an office dedicated to him in Yu's house. I think there must be a lot of his things in it. We can Take the opportunity of getting his belongings back to ask Yu Jie about something." "Well...it's reasonable to do so. Yu Jie won't guess that we are suspicious of him. " "But the question is, how are we going to ask him? It's not like 'I'm sorry, do you think you have anything to do with my father's death'?" Nie Ming put his hand on his chin and began to think. A minute later, he patted his thigh hard: "I know how to test him! When are we going to Yu's house?" "The sooner the better, the best is tomorrow - but, are you really sure? How are you going to play him?" "Temporary secrecy." Nie Ming smiled lightly.