Chapter 6 Chapter 6 Two Guests

His attention shifted. Walk from the corpse to the empty swivel chair of the other party.One glass panel here is empty, far less lively than the other.On one side of the glass, there is only a four-inch color-painted photo of a woman. ——Under the other side’s glass plate, there is the same one——the photo is signed with a small name in Western language, and the title on the previous paragraph is very polite: "Mr. Huailin as a souvenir".Lu Ping thought, he guessed right, this empty seat is exactly the seat of the honor lackey. Looking over, he saw that someone had sat on this empty swivel chair just now.Because, on the left side of the glass plate, there is a glass ashtray.This cigarette dish has been wiped very clean; but in a cigarette hole, there is more than half of a cigarette inserted, and there is a little paper ash in the dish.Looking down at the ground, there are also some soot left on the left side of the swivel chair.Yes, he thought, someone must have sat in this empty chair.

Look at the past in turn.On the left side of the swivel chair, slightly behind, there is a light sofa with Chrome handles moved from the wall, obliquely facing the corner of the square table, and it is placed very "not in place".On one side of the light sofa, a floor-standing cigarette rack was moved from another place. In the ash tray, there were also a few cigarette ashes and two extremely short cigarette tails. It seemed that a person had sat here once. Based on the above circumstances, Lu Ping had a vague impression: At that time, there were a total of two visitors who had sat on the other side of the deceased and talked with the deceased for some time; the protagonist; the other, from that seated position, appears to be a less important spectator.

Regardless of these, he took out the booklet again and wrote it down. At this time, a vague question floated into his mind, he was thinking: Could it be that the guy named Zhang Huailin was the person sitting in this empty swivel chair at that time?Could it be that this shooting case was the result of the disgraceful internal strife between two villains? When he picked up the half cigarette stuck in the cigarette tray under the table to look at it, the brand of this cigarette was the same as the burnt one left in front of the corpse: large capstan brand.Then he picked up the other two extremely short cigarette tails left in the smoking rack on the floor and looked closely. Although the steel marks on the cigarettes had been burned off, he carefully picked out some shreds of tobacco. With his experience in smoking cigarettes, he could still distinguish , these two cigarette tails are also large capstan brands.

These four cigarettes may have been prepared by one of the two guests, because the ones prepared by the host were clearly Xiaosanpao. It can be inferred from this that the guests may also be quite wealthy people. Another characteristic attracted his attention. Except for the one left in front of the corpse, the other two cigarette tails and half of the remaining cigarettes had some color stains on their heads, bright red. His eyes suddenly lit up, looking at, um, this is lipstick.Immediate thoughts flashed into his mind again: this incident directly involved a woman, and these three cigarettes were exactly what the woman smoked.

So, were the two guests sitting opposite the deceased just now women? If you look closely, the red color of these three cigarettes is all in the shape of a triangle, which is deeper than half of it.He was thinking, how did that woman hold that cigarette in her mouth to leave such a mark?This issue does not seem to be too important.The more important point is: Why are the two cigarette ends on the floor-standing cigarette rack so short?A beautiful woman wearing lipstick and smoking a noble cigarette must be quite beautiful-looking at the pictures on the glass plate, his reasons, believing that the woman smoking this cigarette is quite beautiful-could there be such a stingy expression?Could it be that she is not afraid that too short cigarette tails will make her slender fingers of painted Koudan lose their beauty?

His empty eyes focused on the reclining light sofa for a moment.He muses, nods, smiles.A smile indicated that he had obtained a probable explanation for the problem. He took out the gold cigarette case that he had just received, put the extremely short tails of the two capstans and half a capstan into it, and repacked them.