Midsummer Night's Ashes

midsummer

04

Cao Chuan did receive a large amount of money transfer before dark, and then received a call. The man named Li Hantang said: "The money has arrived, don't forget to do what you promised me."

"of course."

Cao Chuan hung up the phone, and there was a photo and a business card on the table in front of him.

The photo is of Li Zhao.

The business card is Li Hantang's business card.

Cao Chuan stared at the photo, always feeling something was wrong. He picked it up, looked at it carefully, and suddenly realized that it should not be taken directly.

It was not taken directly with a mobile phone or camera, but was intercepted from video or surveillance.

The reason why he thinks so is because there is an extremely inconspicuous number in the lower right corner of the photo. The number is actually incomplete, but it should be a 2.

As a private detective, Cao Chuan was familiar with the surveillance footage. He judged directly from this incomplete figure that this photo was taken from the surveillance video.

So, someone installed a camera in Li Zhao's house.

Is it himself?

Or someone else?

Cao Chuan lit a cigarette and continued to look carefully at the people in the photo.

Li Zhao seemed to be in a deep sleep, lying flat on his back, defenseless.

Cao Chuan counted, there were three scars on his wrist, two on the left wrist and one on the right.

The scars were of varying degrees of age. At first glance, it looked like he was wearing a bracelet, which turned out to be quite sexy.

Cao Chuan took a puff of cigarette, then aimed at the address left by Li Hantang.

He searched online, and soon found a lot of information about Li Zhao's family.

The introduction of the community, the information of buying and selling houses, the introduction of the surrounding facilities...

There was not much useful information, so Cao Chuan decided to go there himself.

Looking at it now, the thing that puzzles him the most in the whole thing is the relationship between Li Zhao and Li Hantang. These two people came to him at different times but only one day apart to tell him that the other was cheating, and they both said it with certainty. Something new.

When going out, Cao Chuan took a look at the weather forecast. It was three o'clock in the afternoon, the hottest time of the day, and the maximum temperature had already exceeded 40.

He hesitated at the door, but still took an umbrella. Dressed in black, holding a black umbrella, Cao Chuan walked into the world exposed to the scorching sun, and soon his sickly white skin began to turn red.

This redness is not a reaction after being exposed to the sun, but more like steaming from the inside. He walked on the street like a steamer and found it difficult to breathe.

Cao Chuan took a taxi to Li Zhao's house, a closed community where outsiders are not allowed to enter.

He stood at the gate and looked around, then walked into the coffee shop opposite.

The community is separated from the coffee shop by a small road, which is very narrow and is a one-way lane.

Sitting in the coffee shop, he could clearly see the situation on the opposite side.

He took the mobile phone and compared the saved community diagram to confirm the building of Li Zhao's house, and then quickly locked the corresponding window.

The building of Li Zhao's house happened to be on the side of the road, and the floor was not too high. After Cao Chuan went out, he could see the window of his house when he stood outside the community and looked up.

The curtains are drawn tightly, I don't know if it is to block out the sky or to block some people's sight?

Cao Chuan turned on the recording pen he carried with him, and Li Hantang's voice came from inside.

"...he hardly ever appears in public with him...he doesn't want his colleagues to know about our relationship...he's a slut...other men..."

other men.

Cao Chuan turned off the recorder, and when he turned to leave, he saw a black suitcase next to the trash can on the side of the road, with a few flies circling around it.

The suitcase looked familiar to him, and he always thought he had seen it somewhere before.

He took a few steps, stopped suddenly, turned back, and took out the photo in his pocket.

In the lower right corner of Li Zhao's photo, there is something next to the bed, which is exactly such a black suitcase.