what's in the depths

The girl named Shangguan Shidi sat in front of Zhu Yuhan with her head buried low, her hands clasped together, and she didn't say a word.

It is understood that Shangguan Shidi's father is the general agent of internationally renowned clothing brands in China, and his mother is an American supermodel.

"Raise your head." Zhu Yuhan said coldly, frowning.

Shangguan Shidi raised his head slowly, his eyes were swollen like walnuts, and there were still wet tears on his fair cheeks.

Zhu Yuhan pushed over the photo of the cello in the classroom on the top floor: "According to other students, this Hidland family cello is your father's birthday present to you from the auction at a high price of 120 million."

Shangguan Shidi looked at the photo of the cello and nodded.

"Then why did this piano appear at the scene of the first crime?" Zhu Yuhan said sternly.

Shangguan Shidi didn't speak.

"Answer me." Zhu Yuhan slapped the table.

Shangguan Shidi shook his shoulders, then shook his head: "This is my cello, that's right...Because Le Guang's family is poor and cannot afford an instrument, but she likes the sound of the cello very much, so she asked me to teach her how to play the cello , I saw that she liked it so much, so I gave her the cello."

Zhu Yuhan snorted: "You can give away a cello worth more than 100 million yuan. You are so generous. What is your relationship with the deceased Tang Leguang?"

Shangguan Shidi was stunned for a moment, raised her head, bit her lower lip, tears suddenly poured down, and then she fell on the table and cried bitterly.

Zhu Yuhan leaned on the backrest, quietly waiting for her to finish crying.

This Shangguan Shidi has many talents since she was a child. Her family paid a lot of money to send her to learn dance instruments. It can be said that there is no Western instrument that she does not know. She was originally the first recommender of the international dance competition set by the school, but was later rejected by others. The teacher strongly objected, saying that Tang Leguang was more suitable in terms of field control ability.

So after a unanimous vote by the school teachers, it was finally decided to let Tang Leguang replace Shangguan Shidi to participate in the dance competition, and Shangguan Shidi continued to practice as a candidate for the competition.

"Because we are friends..." After a long time, Shangguan Shidi squeezed out these words from his mouth while weeping.

friend?

Knowing that Shangguan Shidi's family is rich, Zhu Yuhan still doesn't quite believe that such a treasure whose price is almost as high as the housing prices in second- and third-tier cities is easily handed over to his so-called friends.

"How long have you known her? As a friend, how good is the relationship?"

"Knowing each other for two years... so good, so good that I want to be together forever."

Tears trickled down and hit Shangguan Shidi's frozen, bloodshot thigh.

The father of Shangguan Shidi, who received the news, rushed to the police station. Seeing his daughter in distress, he held her in his arms distressedly, touched her soft curly hair and comforted her softly.

At that time, Zhu Yuhan heard an almost inaudible sentence from Shangguan Shidi buried in his father's arms:

"Dad, I'm in so much pain... I don't have the courage to continue living..."

The students left almost the same time, only the boy who gave him a note was still sitting there, sending messages with his mobile phone.

"Come here." Zhu Yuhan waved to him.

The boy put away his mobile phone, swaggered over and sat down.

The boy claimed that he was a piano student. The reason why he said the school was haunted was because his family lived in a high-rise sea view opposite the school, and sometimes he would go out for nightclubs at night.

At twelve o'clock that day, he said goodbye to his friends at the intersection, and drove home by himself. He passed by the school and heard the sound of a cello inside. You know, because there are many expensive musical instruments in the school, the school will be absolutely closed after school. Take a look. At the security booth, I found that the security guard was not inside. I felt a little strange at the time, so I quietly climbed over the wall and went in to find out.

Then, by the moonlight, he saw someone dancing in the classroom where Tang Leguang jumped off. When he wanted to go up to see who was playing a prank, he heard heart-piercing cries from the teaching building opposite. , the voice stopped abruptly as if it was suddenly strangled by the neck.

Feeling scared, he hurried over the wall and went out. When he walked to the convenience store in front of his house and planned to buy some food, he saw the security guard of his school flirting with the clerk of the convenience store.

I asked the security guard, but the security guard said how many shifts he had been on, and he had never heard any screams, so he insisted that he was hallucinating from drinking too much alcohol in the bar.

"In the past few days, I was taking levofloxacin because of extreme sinusitis. I couldn't drink alcohol. I just went to the bar to dance with my friends, so it was definitely not a hallucination." The boy said eagerly.

Zhu Yuhan nodded: "You continue."

"The security guy would go to chat with the lady in the convenience store every day. He thought the school's security system was very good and he didn't really need him to guard it. So the next day I went to the school to find out. After all, I had seen it. Gaza Christie has more than 40 mystery novels." The boy raised his head proudly.

"What did you see?" Zhu Yuhan interrupted him, not interested in listening to his reading history.

"I didn't see anything, but I heard girls crying in the teaching building. How should I put it, it was intermittent, a bit like... the kind of out of breath during sex."

Zhu Yuhan frowned: "Can you be sure what behavior caused the intermittent crying?"

The boy shook his head: "I'm just making an analogy. I went in to look for it, but I didn't see anyone. After that, I would turn into the school every day, and there would be that kind of crying almost every night. Later, the security guard was dumped by the aunt in the convenience store. He didn’t go there anymore, but he caught me over the wall, educated me and kicked me home.”

"How long ago?"

The boy thought for a while: "It started about a month ago."

Zhu Yuhan picked up the landline and called: "Xiao Liu, go and call the school's surveillance from a month ago to the present, and call the security guard who is on night shift at their school."

"Uncle, can I do criminal investigation work with you? Learning music is what my family wants. In fact, my biggest dream is to become the leading criminal investigation policeman in China." The boy leaned over, his beautiful big eyes filled with begging.

"If you have a dream, go for it. If your family doesn't agree with it, just throw it away. Don't let anyone change your life trajectory. But now, it's time for you to go home." Zhu Yuhan stood up and pushed the boy away.

It was already seven o'clock in the evening when the school security arrived, and he sat down tremblingly, claiming that it was not good for him to leave his post without permission, but he never heard any screams or cries.

After asking for a long time, he didn't get any useful information, so Zhu Yuhan had no choice but to let him go back and wait to be summoned at any time.

After seeing off the security guards, Zhu Yuhan began to sort out the recorded information.

At eleven o'clock in the middle of the night, Xiao Liu walked in with a USB flash drive:

"Team Zhu, this is the surveillance record of the school for nearly a month. I watched it at [-] times the speed. I only captured this one night, that is, around [-] o'clock on Tuesday night two weeks ago. There was no abnormality at other times. "

Turning on the video, a figure hurried past holding a cello in the teaching building shaded by leaves.

Zhu Yuhan zoomed in and saw that it was indeed Shangguan Shidi.

After sorting out the transcripts and analyzing the figure who appeared in the wrong place at the wrong time, all the blame was directed at Shangguan Shidi.

According to what the students said, although Tang Leguang has a good relationship with her classmates, the only one who really has close contact with her is Shangguan Shidi.

"Has the deceased's grandmother been contacted?"

Xiao Liu shook his head: "The phone has been disconnected. The team members went to Tang Leguang's house in the afternoon and did not knock on the door. I heard from neighbors that Tang Leguang's grandmother suffers from Alzheimer's and is often lost. She went out to buy vegetables last night and said that it was her granddaughter's birthday today. Haven't come back yet."

Zhu Yuhan looked at Tang Leguang's personal file on the computer screen and took out a cigarette.

Amidst the smog, Tang Leguang's face was calm and serene.

"Birthday..." Zhu Yuhan sighed softly.

Chu Rong pushed the door in with a midnight snack and said with a smile, "Don't sigh too often, it will blow away all your good luck."

Zhu Yuhan rubbed the center of his brows wearily, then pinched out the cigarette: "You forensic pathologists also believe in these superstitions."

"Just talking casually." Chu Rong put the snack on the table, then took out a stack of autopsy reports from the file bag and handed it to him.

"The deceased died of intracranial hemorrhage. There were no other contusions on his body. It was confirmed that he fell to his death. There were a little undigested food residue in his stomach, which was beef components, and..."

Chu Rong paused: "The hymen ruptured, but it was not caused recently. Maybe they have had sex, but it can't be confirmed, because some women's hymens are very thin, and strenuous exercise, such as cycling, swimming and dancing, may cause hymen rupture. It is not ruled out. Possibly, after all, the deceased learned to dance during his lifetime."

Zhu Yuhan nodded, and after relaxing, he felt hungry, and opened the supper brought by Chu Rong:

"It's Bestway Cakes again, have you gotten rich recently?"

Bestway's cakes cost hundreds of yuan, and they are sold in limited quantities on the day, but the taste is really average.

Chu Rong smiled: "Isn't today the girl's birthday?"

Zhu Yuhan was taken aback, looked at his watch, and found that it was already eleven fifty.

He took out a candle from the paper bag and stuck it on the small cake, lit it, raised the cake to Tang Leguang's face on the computer screen, and said softly:

"Happy birthday."

The minute hand points to twelve, and the bell rings slowly and bluntly, with anticipation and sorrow, rushing towards the seemingly bright future together——

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In the dim room, a little candlelight illuminates the cute and delicate face like a doll.

The candlelight is flickering, and the water in the big eyes is a little bit.

"Happy birthday to you..." The girl clapped her hands lightly, her voice hoarse, and sang this song representing a good wish.

At the end of the song, the girl smiled. She blew out the candles, put her hands together and closed her eyes:

"Guangguang, happy birthday..."

The last word "le" was stuck in my throat, and I couldn't pronounce it no matter how hard I tried.

The girl was stunned for a long time, then suddenly covered her mouth, the pain was overwhelming, she bent down on the ground in pain, trying to take a deep breath.

But it hurts too much, no matter what I do, it's futile.

The chestnut curly hair hung down on the ground, and the girl fell sideways on the ground, staring at the ceiling absently.

After a long time, she slowly closed her eyes and placed her slender hands on her chest.

But I can no longer feel the beating of my heart——