Chapter 23 Chapter 22 Madame Butterfly

On the first floor of Bonjour Shopping Center, Yue Xiaohui pointed to a glass bottle in front of the Guerlain counter, then turned to Wei Jiong and said, "This is it." Wei Jiong looked at the luxuriously shaped small glass bottle and the light yellow liquid contained in it.Immediately, he struggled to silently read the letters on the bottle: "Mitsouko—is this the meaning of Madame Butterfly?" "Yes." Yue Xiaohui chuckled, "Don't you think it will be Madame Butterfly?" Wei Jiong scratched his head in embarrassment: "I don't understand this."

Yue Xiaohui was quite complacent: "There's a lot of knowledge here." After finishing speaking, she took the perfume bottle, opened the lid, and leaned over to smell it. "Well, it's really quite classic." The shopping guide came up and said, "This is indeed Guerlain's classic perfume. The top notes are bergamot, lemon, orange peel, and peach. The middle notes are floral, including rose and jasmine..." Wei Jiong was confused when he heard it, but Yue Xiaohui nodded frequently, and finally put some on his wrist, and leaned in front of Wei Jiong. "How is it, does it smell good?"

The girl's white wrist suddenly appeared in front of his eyes, Wei Jiong instinctively dodged back, but there was still some faint fruity fragrance floating in his nose. "peach?" "You have a very good sense of smell." Yue Xiaohui smiled again, turned around and said to the shopping guide, "Wrap it up for me." Four hundred and eighty-seven yuan.Wei Jiong wanted to take out his wallet, but Yue Xiaohui firmly stopped him.When paying, Wei Jiong felt very embarrassed, as if he was a stingy boyfriend who came shopping with his girlfriend, but didn't give up anything.Yue Xiaohui didn't take it seriously, and walked in front of it leisurely, carrying a small paper bag with a perfume bottle in it.

"Aren't you going back?" "No." Yue Xiaohui took out a piece of paper from her pocket and shook it at Wei Jiong, "There are still several perfumes to try." Du Cheng visited the family members of the other three deceased, focusing on investigating whether they had the habit of wearing perfume during their lifetime.Sure enough, all three of the deceased had or might have worn perfume on the day of the murder.However, except for the husband of the deceased Zhang Lan, Wen Jianliang, who accurately stated that his wife also used Madame Butterfly perfume, the family members of the other two deceased expressed that they could not remember clearly, and only proposed a general range.The task of Yue Xiaohui and Wei Jiong today is to find out whether there is a perfume similar to Madame Butterfly in this brand list.

Although all the perfume brands listed on the list can be found in this mall, however, several perfumes have been discontinued, so it is impossible to compare and distinguish them.Yue Xiaohui thought about it, and asked the shopping guide lady to introduce products similar to these perfume ingredients.Soon, Yue Xiaohui picked out one of them and put it on the other wrist, asking Wei Jiong to help identify it. The entire cosmetics area is full of strong fragrance, and Wei Jiong has long been dizzy from the smell.In his nose, these perfumes basically tasted the same.Seeing that he couldn't help, Yue Xiaohui simply drove him to the side and waited.After trying several times, this perfume was also ruled out by her.Wei Jiong curiously asked the reason, but she dismissed it with an understatement of "the middle tone is wrong".

After trying several brands in a row, Wei Jiong looked at Yue Xiaohui's familiar movements and focused demeanor, thinking that this task really needs a girl to complete.But this is also good, I am happy to be at leisure, as long as I follow behind obediently. In the end, Yue Xiaohui chose a perfume from a certain brand.After paying, she carefully put the perfume bottle in a paper bag and signaled Wei Jiong to leave. "Are you sure it's this?" "That's right, amber fragrance." Yue Xiaohui pointed to the list. In the list of brands given by the family of the third victim, Huang Yu, this perfume was impressively listed.

On the return bus, Yue Xiaohui seldom spoke, just looked at the two perfume bottles repeatedly, and put two kinds of perfume on her two wrists respectively.When she was about to reach the nursing home, she suddenly showed her two hands and asked Wei Jiong to smell it again.The aroma in Wei Jiong's nasal cavity has been swept away long ago, and he tried again this time, and he can really distinguish the similar taste of the two perfumes. mystery.melancholy.Like a young woman standing by the sea wearing a light veil. "These are the base notes of the two perfumes." Yue Xiaohui looked a little tired and smiled calmly, "The victims all met the murderer after a period of time after wearing the perfume, so I think the last fragrance is the source of stimulation to the murderer." .”

"Then, you don't have to buy them all back." Wei Jiong finally raised the question that has been lingering in his mind, "Lao Ji didn't ask us to do this." "I have my own uses." Yue Xiaohui looked out the window and replied casually. Both Du Cheng and Ji Qiankun were in the room, studying a stack of documents on the desktop. When they saw them coming in, they all cast their gazes over there. "How about it?" "Of course I found it." Yue Xiaohui raised the paper bag in her hand, "There is a perfume that is very similar to Madame Butterfly—maybe it was used by Huang Yu."

"So, at least three of the victims had put on perfume on the day of the crime." Ji Qiankun looked very excited, "Li Lihua went to the mall on the night of the murder, and probably bought perfume—at least tried it." Du Cheng also became interested, took out two perfume bottles from the paper bag, opened the bottle caps, leaned over to smell them, and then sneezed twice. Yue Xiaohui was amused.She snatched the perfume bottle from Du Cheng's hand and raised her arms.With two soft sounds of "嗞嗞", a mist as thin as a cow's hair slowly fell in the air.Everyone was instantly surrounded by the fragrance that rose suddenly.

No one spoke, and they seemed to be savoring the smell that permeated the whole body.After a while, Du Cheng sniffed and said, "It smells good. I really don't know why someone would kill someone because of this." Wei Jiong looked at Ji Qiankun.The old man sat motionless in the wheelchair, holding the stainless steel handrails with both hands, with his head slightly lowered and his eyes half-drowned, as if he was immersed in some kind of memory and couldn't extricate himself.The three of them looked at each other, but they stopped talking and looked at Ji Qiankun quietly. After a while, Ji Qiankun finally came to his senses.He took a deep breath, raised his head, looked at the other three, and smiled a little embarrassedly.

"It's the smell, that's right." Ji Qiankun reached for his wallet, "Xiao Hui, how much did you spend? I'll reimburse you." "No need, I bought it and put it on myself." Yue Xiaohui waved her hand, "What were you talking about just now?" "I went to visit Yang Guiqin again—that's Xu Mingliang's mother." Du Cheng pointed to the information on the table, "She gave me a list of people who have a close relationship with Xu Mingliang. In other words Said, it is the person who he may send pork to the other party." Du Cheng raised his chin to Wei Jiong: "According to your speculation." Wei Jiong's face turned red all of a sudden: "I just said it casually." "Your thinking is very good." Du Cheng smiled, "If other possibilities can be ruled out, no matter how incredible it is, it is the final truth." He turned to Ji Qiankun: "These two children are quite capable." "Yes." Ji Qiankun looked at Wei Jiong and Yue Xiaohui with soft eyes, "I'm very lucky." Wei Jiong became more and more embarrassed.Yue Xiaohui's attention was always on the stack of materials. "There aren't too many people." "Well, Xu Mingliang's interpersonal relationship was relatively simple." Du Cheng also turned to the small wooden table, "I screened the list, and two of them died of natural causes due to age. They were all close to each other when the case happened. People in their sixties can basically be ruled out." "Where are the others?" Yue Xiaohui stared at Du Cheng with a focused expression. "We're lucky." Du Cheng picked up the list and looked at the handwriting on it. "One of them has moved to another city. You can ask a friend to help you find out. The other few are still living in this city." "Well, when do we start investigating?" "Immediately. Start checking from the youngest." Du Cheng suddenly thought of something, looked at Yue Xiaohui, "You are more active than Lao Ji." "Oh?" Yue Xiaohui immediately sat up straight, "We're about to start school." "Don't delay the class, both of you." Ji Qiankun interjected, "Then I'll be too sorry." "It's okay. Anyway, there are only seven or eight people who need to be investigated, and it won't take too long." Yue Xiaohui shook her hair, "Is that right, Officer Du?" Du Cheng just looked at her and didn't speak. "Your house is pretty clean." Chen Xiao took off his coat and put it on the sofa, "It's just that the house is a bit old." "It doesn't matter if you live alone." Lin Guodong also took off his padded jacket, and threw it on Chen Xiao's clothes. "You visit casually—what do you want to drink?" "Tea." Chen Xiao covered her blushing cheeks, and smiled at him, "It's just to let the smell out of the wine." Lin Guodong responded, got up and went to the kitchen to boil water, took out two clean cups, and put the tea leaves.This is their third date.During the lunch just now, both he and Chen Xiao drank some beer.At this moment, the bladder is very distended.While waiting for the water to boil, he went to the bathroom.After toileting, he stood in front of the sink, turned on the tap, and rinsed his hands.Suddenly, he turned his head to look at the stainless steel bathtub under the transom, and felt hot all over his body. A few minutes later, Lin Guodong came out of the kitchen holding two cups of hot tea, but Chen Xiao was not in the living room.He sniffed and walked straight to his bedroom.Sure enough, Chen Xiao was sitting at the desk, flipping through a book. Seeing him coming in, Chen Xiao put down the book and said, "This is where Mr. Lin works every day?" "Yes, the conditions are very simple." Lin Guodong handed the teacup to Chen Xiao.The girl thanked her and took a sip.Holding a teacup, Lin Guodong walked slowly to the window sill and looked downstairs. Today's temperature is slightly higher than usual, and the signs of rejuvenation have become more and more obvious.There is still some half-melted snow on the window sill, steaming slightly in the afternoon sun.Lin Guodong looked at the street corner outside the community, the road was empty.He turned his gaze to the 14 buildings opposite.Although it was dark from the window of the terrace on the sixth floor, it was certain that there was no one there. Since the warning to Luo Shaohua was issued that day, this damned stalker has never appeared again.The transparent adhesive strip pasted on the lintel of my house had long since lost its stickiness and fell off quietly one morning.His cut palm began to heal slowly, and Lin Guodong's heart was slowly waking up in the warmer weather. Suddenly there was a "ding" sound from behind.He turned his head and saw that Chen Xiao was already sitting on his bed, taking out his mobile phone from his trouser pocket, checking it, and throwing the mobile phone on the bed with an indifferent expression. "Boy friend?" "Well, a routine greeting." "How long will he be working in Beijing?" "I don't know." Chen Xiao didn't look at him, straightened his legs and crossed his ankles, "It's like online dating." Lin Guodong smiled and looked at her while drinking tea. The girl is wearing a black turtleneck and dark blue jeans today.The upper body is uneven, and the legs are straight and slender.The blush on his face from drinking has not subsided, and after drinking hot tea, his face is full of moisture. Lin Guodong walked over slowly and sat on the bed side by side with the girl.Under the weight of the two people, the mattress sank, and Chen Xiao leaned over, half leaning on Lin Guodong's body.However, she did not avoid or adjust her sitting posture, letting her arms cling to Lin Guodong. Neither of them spoke, each holding a teacup and sipping.The girl pressed her left hand on the bed, looked at the wall in front of her without squinting, and occasionally raised her arm to her mouth, slowly pouring tea into her mouth.Lin Guodong kept moving his nose, as if he wanted to suck in all the air around the girl. The tea is fragrant, bitter and astringent at the beginning of the mouth, and sweet again after tasting.However, Lin Guodong drank more and became thirstier, as if his nose was not the fragrance of a girl, but a fire, which evaporated all the tea in an instant.He moved his body quietly, and slowly moved his right hand leaning on the bed towards the girl. After a few long seconds, his fingertip touched another finger that was soft and slippery.His breathing suddenly became rapid, and his heartbeat began to speed up.He pretended to drink tea, and carefully glanced at Chen Xiao from the corner of his eye. The girl didn't show any abnormality, she still looked at the empty wall in front of her, her breath was undisturbed.Lin Guodong was slightly relieved, savoring the young woman's fingers carefully.After a while, he was obviously not satisfied with this small contact, and moved his fingers again, trying to let them climb the smooth back of the girl's hand. With a slight movement, Chen Xiao immediately withdrew his left hand, got up and put the teacup on the desk without looking at Lin Guodong: "Mr. Lin, I have to go—where is your manuscript?" "Oh?" Lin Guodong was a little flustered, and hurriedly stood up, "It's...on the table." After that, he rummaged through the piles of manuscripts, finally took out a few, and sorted them out a bit.When he handed it to Chen Xiao, he had calmed down and his expression returned to normal. Chen Xiao also had a calm face, and took the manuscript with lowered eyes: "I'll go back and show Mr. Jiang to have a look. If there's no problem, I'll notify you to come and get paid." Lin Guodong said yes.Chen Xiao smiled, turned around and walked towards the living room. After putting on her coat, she bid farewell to Lin Guodong. "Thank you for your lunch and tea." The girl stood by the open door, leaned on the door frame, smiled meaningfully at Lin Guodong, and went downstairs lightly. Lin Guodong watched her disappear at the corner of the corridor, turned around and closed the door.Standing in the silent living room, he recalled the touch of the girl's fingers, smiled lightly, shook his head again, got up and walked to the sofa, and picked up his coat. After dozens of minutes of contact, Lin Guodong's coat was already stained with Chen Xiao's fragrance.He lay on the sofa, covered his body with his coat, smelled the vague smell, unbuttoned his pants, and stretched his hands towards his lower body.