Ning Zishan nodded.

At this time, Wu Duoduo suddenly said: "After breakfast, does any of you want to go with me to appreciate Teacher Qiu Jingshan's paintings?"

Everyone was taken aback when they heard this sentence.

Wu Duoduo looked at their surprised faces, and said angrily, "Why are you looking at me like this?"

He Wei said bluntly: "Didn't you say yesterday that Qiu Jingshan is a pervert, that's why you drew such a disgusting picture?"

Wu Duoduo put down his chopsticks: "I said those words yesterday because I haven't realized the beauty in Teacher Qiu Jingshan's paintings." Then he raised his head and looked at the void above his head with admiration, like a devout believer staring at Looking at the sacred object that only he can see, his tone is full of madness: "But it's different now. I have completely realized that Mr. Qiu Jingshan's paintings are real art. They are the collision of thoughts, efforts and souls. They are the art world. A rare gem..."

Wu Duoduo spoke impassionedly, completely ignoring the expressions on the faces of everyone present that were uglier than eating flies.

Ning Zishan thought to himself that this kind of "treasure" really can't be appreciated by himself, and it will make people feel depressing after looking at it for a long time. This whole villa is like a depressing box. If you live for a long time, you will probably have problems with your spirit.

In the end, He Weiyi interrupted Wu Duoduo's passionate speech-like praise: "Is there something wrong with your brain here?"

Wu Duoduo immediately shut up and glared at He Weiyi viciously, as if the other party was the father-killing enemy he had been looking for for many years.

Just when others thought that Wu Duoduo was going to shake his fist at He Wei in the next second, Wu Duoduo slammed the table, shaking all the dishes and chopsticks, and left the table angrily.

He Wei looked at his angry back, and muttered a sarcasm with his eyes full of perversion. He didn't know whether he was talking about Wu Duoduo or the missing Qiu Jingshan, or both.

The remaining six people continued to eat with their own concerns, until the end of this uneasy breakfast, Geng Huihuang didn't go downstairs, and of course they didn't see Liu Ruge and Xiaoxin either.

"Where are we going next?" Ning Zishan had enough food and drink, and poked Ke Xu, who had been looking thoughtful since Wu Duoduo came down the stairs.

"Let's go find Liu Ruge." Ke Xu said, "I want to visit Qiu Jingshan's missing studio first."

So the two left the restaurant and went upstairs, Gu Siyue also followed: "Are the two handsome guys going to find Liu Ruge? I'll go too, let's go together."

Ke Xu made a cold face, and Ning Zishan nodded.

The three of them came to the third floor. There were also four rooms on the third floor, which were similar to those downstairs, except that there were no paintings.

Because the room next to the stairs is the largest, the three of them took it for granted that Liu Ruge lived there. Just as they were about to knock on the door, there was a low cry from the room opposite.

Ke Xu paused when he knocked on the door, and gestured to the two people behind him. The two understood, followed him quietly to the door, and put their ears on the door.

Sure enough, someone was crying in the room, and the crying sounded quite familiar, like Liu Ruge's.

Liu Ruge cried for a while and then began to speak intermittently. She couldn't hear clearly through the door, but Ning Zishan only heard her saying something that she seemed to be so scared... missing... haunted or something, and then there was Xiao Xin's gentle comfort.

The three of them looked at each other, and just when they wanted to continue listening, there was a sound of something rolling in the corridor, "rumbling", which sounded quite heavy.

Then a dirty ball rolled to Ning Zishan's feet, hit the wall, wobbled, and stopped.

The three stood up and looked, only to see that the room at the end of the corridor was open, and the deformed girl they had seen last night was standing at the door, staring at them motionless.

Gu Siyue was obviously seeing that child for the first time, and she almost cried out in shock, but luckily she covered her mouth in time.

The few people stared at the girl silently for a few seconds, and suddenly there was another exclamation from the stairs, and the room fell silent immediately.

Ning Zishan turned his head and saw two men standing at the top of the stairs, one tall and one short, who lived in the second room downstairs. The tall one was called Wang Zuoling, and the short one seemed to be called Xiang Hongwen.

Both of them looked at the deformed girl at the end of the corridor in horror, obviously frightened.

Ke Xu frowned tightly, and glanced dissatisfiedly at the two men at the stairs.

Then the little girl ran towards them, and the red leather shoes made a crisp sound on the wooden floor.

Gu Siyue's first reaction was to run away, but Ning Zishan and Ke Xu didn't move. She hesitated for a moment, and withdrew her legs.

Ning Zishan bent down, trying to pick up the ball at his feet, but the girl who ran over picked it up first and hugged it like a baby, and finally gave him a glare.

Ning Zishan: "..."

At this time, the door of the room opened, Xiaoxin saw Ning Zishan and the three of them at the door, she was taken aback for a moment, and then she noticed the little girl who was much shorter than the three of them, and there was an obvious disgust on her face.

The little girl also raised her head and glared at her not to be outdone, then ran away holding the ball twisting and turning.

After the little girl left, Wang Zuoling and Xiang Hongwen came over, and Ning Zishan explained to Xiaoxin, Xiaoxin let the door open and let the five of them enter the room.

Liu Ruge hadn't gotten up yet, she was sitting on the bed in her pajamas, and she was still covered tightly with a coat.

She raised her eyes to look at the five people who entered the room, her eyes and nose were still red, it seemed that she had just cried.

"I haven't had time to wash up yet. Please don't take offense when I meet all the detectives in this attire." Liu Ruge said in a soft voice, "Is there anything you can do to see me early in the morning?"

Just as Ke Xu was about to speak, Xiang Hongwen said first: "Just now we saw a little monster in the corridor, what is that? Will it be dangerous to us?"

Liu Ruge looked at Xiao Xin with puzzled eyes, and Xiao Xin said, "Meimei ran out just now."

Liu Ruge was slightly taken aback, although it was only for a moment, but Ning Zishan still caught the mixed emotions of fear and loathing in her eyes.

Then Liu Ruge said: "Meimei is the child of Jingshan and his ex-wife. Her mother died of dystocia when she was born. As you can see, she is a deformed child. Although she looks a little scary, she is also a poor and well-behaved girl Don't be too scared, children."

Hearing what Liu Ruge said, the expressions on Xiang Hongwen and Wang Zuoling's faces relaxed a little.

Ning Zishan turned his head to look at Ke Xu, but found that Ke Xu was staring straight at Liu Ruge's neck.

Liu Ruge also felt his gaze, so she pulled the clothes tighter uncomfortably. At this moment, Ning Zishan noticed that there were many scars on the bare skin on the back of her hand, which was pale pink and pale. Bright, as if wrapped in a layer of film.

Ning Zishan subconsciously asked, "What's the matter with the injury on your hand?"

Liu Ruge shook his hand holding the clothes, and quickly hid under the quilt: "I was scalded when I was a child, so I usually wear gloves. Do you have anything else to do, detectives?"

Ke Xu then said: "We want to visit Qiu Jingshan's creative studio."

Liu Ruge nodded: "Xiaoxin, take the detectives upstairs."

Xiaoxin responded.

Afterwards, a group of people left the room and began to walk upstairs. Ning Zishan and Ke Xu walked last. He approached Ke Xu and whispered, "It's really rude of you to stare at a woman like that just now."

Hearing this, Ke Xu stopped and looked at him with a half-smile: "Your fiancee, are you jealous?"

Ning Zishan: "..."

Ke Xu took a step closer to him, stretched out his hand to pinch his earlobe and rubbed it, and said with a smile, "Don't worry, in my eyes, only you are the most special."

Ning Zishan couldn't help shrinking his neck from the itchy feeling on his earlobe.

Seeing his jerky reaction, Ke Xu immediately smiled happier, and he nodded slightly: "Why are you so sensitive."

Ning Zishan: "..." Boss, did you not take your medicine today, why did you start to get sick again?

After flirting with the other party happily, Ke Xu accepted it when he saw it was good: "Let's go, they are all going up."

Ning Zishan sighed helplessly and followed.

On the way upstairs, Ke Xu said to Ning Zishan: "I saw her just now, and I felt strange why she still wears such thick pajamas with long sleeves even though it is such a hot day."

Ning Zishan said: "I thought it was weird before, but now I understand, didn't she say that she had burns on her body? Such a beautiful woman, but with ugly scars on her body, will definitely make her feel inferior and want to cover it up. It looks normal to people."

After hearing this, Ke Xu gave him a sideways glance: "You think she's pretty?"

Ning Zishan nodded and said, "It's pretty, don't you think it's not pretty?"

Ke Xu snorted and said, "Not as good-looking as you."

Ning Zishan: "..." Being praised as being more beautiful than a woman does not make him happy. Thank you.

Ke Xu continued: "What you said is very reasonable, but judging from the color of the burn on Liu Rusinger's body, it seems that it is not an old wound, but a new one. It may not have been more than two months."

Ning Zishan was taken aback: "Then why did she lie?"

Ke Xu said: "I don't know yet, let's observe and see."

During the conversation, the five people had already gone up to the fourth floor.

Because the fourth floor is on the top of the building, it is much smaller than the lower floors.

There are only two rooms on the left and right on the entire fourth floor. Xiaoxin said that the larger one is the creation room, and the smaller one is the exhibition room of Qiu Jingshan's works.

Afterwards, Xiaoxin took out the key from her pocket and opened the door of the creative studio. A strong smell of paint mixed with plaster came over her face. The five of them involuntarily covered their noses, only Xiaoxin looked indifferent.

The five of them stood in the corridor for a while, waiting to get used to the smell before entering one file at a time.

The windows of the creative room were drawn with black curtains, so it was very dark. Xiang Hongwen, who entered first, wanted to open the curtains, but was stopped by Xiaoxin: "Some unfinished works and paints in the creative room cannot see the sunlight."

Xiang Hongwen said: "Then what do you say? It's so dark, what clues can we find?"

Xiao Xin took a deep look at him, then turned on the light in the creative room, and the room was lit up immediately.

Only then did everyone see that the studio was very messy, with painting supplies and sculpture supplies scattered everywhere, as well as some unfinished paintings, whose easels were covered with white cloth.

Ke Xu walked to an easel, and just as he lifted a corner of the white cloth, Xiao Xin strode forward and pulled the white cloth back.

Ke Xu raised his eyebrows, and Xiaoxin said calmly: "The teacher doesn't like others messing with his paintings, especially unfinished ones. You can check them, but don't mess around."

Ke Xu took a step back without insisting.

Since Xiaoxin insisted not to mess with the things in the animation studio, the five of them just looked around, but naturally they didn't find any valuable clues, and then left.

Ning Zishan and the others were still at the end. When they were about to leave, Ke Xu suddenly turned around and looked at Xiaoxin, and said without beginning and end: "I thought your master and master's bedroom would be the one near the stairs. To think they would ditch the master bedroom and opt for another small bedroom."

Xiaoxin's body froze, but she quickly replied: "That's my room. Teacher's wife is not in good health, and with the shock of Master's sudden disappearance, it is more convenient for me to take care of her when we live together."

Ke Xu groaned, and said again: "But as your teacher's wife, even if she takes care of you, you should go to her room."

Xiao Xin paused, and looked at Ke Xu with crossed eyebrows: "What do you mean?"

Ke Xu raised his eyelids and met her gaze: "It's not interesting, I just asked casually, why are you so nervous?"

Xiaoxin snorted and stopped to start: "It was the master's wife who took the initiative to live in my room. She said that there are bits and pieces of her life with the master in the master bedroom, and it always reminds her that the master disappeared for no reason. Living in it makes her sad. It's almost impossible to breathe."

Ke Xu chuckled: "Then your teacher's mother and master are truly a husband and wife."

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