The Book of Death by Heart Poison

There is a characteristic of small cities. Whenever there is a murder case, it will spread throughout the streets and alleys within two days.

The homestay "Red Line" is located in the center of Xiling City, with a small river passing through the city behind it.Thanks to the several schools built along the river, many restaurants and low-priced clothing stores have been opened along the river. The decoration has a sense of cheap art, which makes the "Red Line", a popular homestay on the Internet, look less deserted. .

But if you want to ask if the business is good, the business here is really not good, the rooms are not fully occupied, and there is a conspicuous notice posted on the wall outside the door: Wangpu is for rent.

Hua Chong glanced at it, "It can't keep blooming."

Liu Zhiqin and him split up. At this time, they had already driven to the "Village Love" farmhouse in Qishu Town. The field worker Xu Xiaozhou came with him.

Although this person is a field worker in name, he is also a good expert in technical investigation. When Liu Zhiqin is busy in the information warfare team, he relies on him for signal tracking, video screening, and image comparison.

"It's a waste of money." Xu Xiaozhou is a "bookworm", who devotes all his spare time to novels, and his monthly fixed expenditure is to buy books—both paper and electronic. .

But everyone in the special operations team sneered at his taste, because what he read was not a famous book, nor was it a bestseller on the list of major bookstores, but God of War and his son-in-law. After reading a hundred books, they were all exactly the same. Routine.

"Aren't you bored?" Haizi once asked.

Xu Xiaozhou said contemptuously: "You and Pei Qing have been arguing for decades, aren't you bothered?"

Haizi was choked by these words, and it took him a long time to say: "I'm annoying."

There is no further text.

When Hua Chong first joined the special operations team, he didn't want to let down the enthusiasm of the team members. Under Xu Xiaozhou's enthusiastic Amway, he glanced at the son-in-law novel known as "the most face-slapping", and couldn't read it after two pages.

The only good thing is that although the team members that Shen Xun handed over to him each have their own indescribable features, they are all one in a million in terms of work ability.

The police came to the door, and the front desk of "Red Line" was a little nervous.

Hua Chong explained the purpose of coming, and the front desk stared his eyes like copper bells, and he couldn't speak clearly, "Then, that, the dead one, live in our house?"

The news that someone died near the rapeseed field has spread throughout Xiling City, but ordinary citizens still don't know who died.

Hua Chong motioned Xu Xiaozhou to take out Shi Limiao's photo, leaning halfway on the bar, "Do you have any impression of her?"

At the front desk was a girl in her early twenties, named A Juan, with pure makeup. When she saw the photo, she suddenly covered her mouth, her colored contact lenses almost fell off, and it took a long time before she uttered a short syllable: "It's her?"

Hua Chong's eyes are sharp, but his tone is gentle, giving people a reliable feeling, "Do you have any impression of her?"

Ajuan slowed down for a while, with sweat dripping from her forehead, she pressed her chest and said, "Wait a minute, I'm just a part-time worker. This is too serious. I'll call the boss first."

Hua Chong raised his hand, motioning for her to hit.

After 2 minutes, A Juan had probably finished explaining, and put down the phone in a daze, the fear in her eyes did not subside.

Hua Chong has been observing her, quickly analyzing every subtle expression of her.

Generally speaking, although she was agitated, such a reaction was within the normal range.Criminal cases happen every day, but it is very rare for them to be implemented on every ordinary person.Anyone who was told that a man who had not long ago been staying in his hotel was killed would be shocked beyond words, the difference is only in the degree of degree.

"They'll be here soon." Ajuan took a few sips of water.Probably because Hua Chong's aura was reassuring, she gradually calmed down, "I, what can I do for you?"

Hua Chong said in a chatty tone: "Just talk about your impression of her. Besides, has anyone approached her?"

"I have a deep impression on her." A Juan came out from the bar and walked to the backyard, "Because usually people who come to live with us are at least two companions, only she is alone. And she lives for a long time , like to sit there."

Hua Chong looked in the direction A Juan pointed, and saw a wooden swing.

The land price in Xiling City is cheap, and the "Red Line" has a large yard that extends to the river beach. There are flowers and plants in the yard, swings, small bridges, and Japanese-style bamboo tubes. There are too many popular elements concentrated, but it seems nondescript.

Hua Chong noticed that although this yard belongs to the "red line" and there is a fence around it, it is just a decorative fence. As long as people are willing, people outside can come in from the direction of the river beach casually, and guests inside can also go through the fence without installation. There are cameras in and out of the gate.

Hua Chong asked, "Is there a camera over there?"

A Juan said, "No."

Hua Chong nodded, "Well, you continue."

"That swing is actually for guests to take pictures of. It's hard to sit on, and it's not comfortable at all." A Juan said again: "I saw her sitting on it with a book once, so I kindly reminded her that if you read a book, you can use it." Go to the glass room on the top floor, where there are cushions. She refused, saying she liked it here."

Hua Chong heard a trace of contempt in A Juan's tone.

This kind of contempt seems a bit abrupt.

Ajuan herself also realized that something was wrong, so she smiled awkwardly, "I didn't mean her to be embarrassed. I... well, I don't have much education, don't mind."

To investigate a murder case, what is crucial is not only the clues of the murderer, but also the details of the victim's life.Hua Chong has rich experience and is particularly keen on details. He asked patiently: "If she sits there, other guests can't take pictures?"

Ajuan was stunned for a moment, and opened up the chatter box under Hua Chong's superb conversation skills, "That's not true, there was actually no one in the yard at the time. Since you asked, I will not hide it. I think this guest has a little, a little... ..."

She pondered over the words, and seemed to think that except for a certain word, other words were not enough to describe the feelings Shi Limiao gave her, but if she wanted to use that word to describe a person who had just been killed, it seemed that she was cold-hearted and had no upbringing.

Hua Chong said, "Do you think she's a bit pretentious?"

Omitting the last word, it seemed that it was not so bad all of a sudden, Ajuan breathed a sigh of relief, "Well, she dresses herself up very delicately every day, as if she is going to meet important people or go on a trip, but in fact she Just walking around in the yard and posing on the swing. It seems that she deliberately showed us her exquisiteness to make us envious? I don’t know, anyway, I really felt a little uncomfortable at the time. In fact, living in a store like ours The customers here are more or less concerned about their appearance, and they are all delicate girls with makeup on. I’ve seen it a lot, but it’s nothing. She’s a little, a little too much.”

Hua Chong was silent for a while.

The Shi Limiao described by A Juan is similar to the character he deduced from Shi Limiao's experience.

Shi Limiao has an extremely low self-esteem in her bones, the more inferior a person is, the more self-respecting she is, she does not allow herself to show frustration and embarrassment.In front of strangers and people who don't know her well, she needs to show her best side.

Superiority is her armor, protecting her perhaps fragile and hurt heart.

Even though this suit of armor is like the emperor's new clothes, it is just a vulnerable and self-deceiving lie.

"Just now you said that she seemed to be meeting some important person?" Hua Chong said, "Have you ever seen her communicate with others?"

A Juan said: "That's not true. We have a rooftop here, which is a place for guests to gather. She has never participated in it. She is a bit proud."

Hua Chong asked again: "Besides the exchange on the swing, have you guys ever talked?"

A Juan said: "She asked me where else to go in the city besides Jiangtan."

When Hua Chong asked A Juan, Xu Xiaozhou had obtained the "red line" internal monitoring.

Previously, Liu Zhiqin only got public monitoring.Although it is easy for top information warfare experts to obtain private surveillance, there is a reasonable procedure for investigating the case. Unless there are special circumstances, there is no need to obtain video footage illegally.

"I'm just working here, I really don't know much..." Ajuan picked her fingers, her eyes were flushed, she looked at Hua Chong with the end of her eyes from time to time, and then looked at the door, wishing that the bosses would arrive soon.

Hua Chong said thanks, "How about this, which room Shi Limiao lives in, please show me if it's convenient."

This was probably the easiest question, and Ajuan immediately took the room card, "Okay, follow me."

There are two buildings in the "Red Line" at right angles to each other. One has two floors and the other has three floors. Most of them are bed rooms. There are only five double rooms and luxury suites in total.

Shi Limiao lived in one of the only two suites.

"Suites are expensive, and there are usually no one to live in." A Juan said when she opened the door, "This room has been empty since she left, but the aunt has cleaned it, and the sheets and quilts have been changed. There should be nothing left. .”

"It's okay, I'll just take a look." The suite occupies the best position on the "red line", the sunlight illuminates almost every corner, Hua Chong squinted his eyes from the sun, and looked around the interior layout.

Different from regular hotels, the beds and other layouts here are cute and pink, very dreamy.

Xu Xiaozhou let out a "huh" from the side.

Hua Chong turned his head, "What is Xiao Zhou thinking?"

"Isn't this too girly?" Xu Xiaozhou frowned, "It's different from what I imagined, so it turns out that Yujie also has a [-]-year-old girl in her heart?"

Hua Chong asked, "Is this room random, or did Shi Limiao choose it himself?"

"She chose it herself. The other one is in midsummer style." Ajuan quickly walked to the opposite side of the corridor and opened the other suite, "Actually, the pink suite was already reserved by two female students at that time. After she saw it We said we must live there, and we discussed it with the female student, and the other party was willing to let me out."

Hua Chong lightly pressed his index finger against his chin.

It's understandable if you want to live in a room you like, no one stipulates that mature women can't sleep in pink suites.

But when the room has already been booked, it is a bit unreasonable to fight for Shi Limiao.

Hua Chong turned around, "Xiao Zhou, see if Shi Limiao stays in the room for a long time."

Xu Xiaozhou quickly checked the surveillance in the corridor, "As long as she doesn't go to the yard, she stays in the room most of the day."

Hua Chong frowned slightly, and said to himself: "Does she have a special liking for this suite, or does she especially like the color and atmosphere in the suite?"

At this time, the welcome bell rang from the downstairs door, but it was not the guests who came, but the two bosses of "Red Line".

The man's face was young, and he looked a few years older than A Juan, with shoulder-length curly hair and a decadent artistic atmosphere.

The woman was about the same age as him, wearing a light green sarong, with her face facing the sky, walking the route of a Mori girl.

They are like a pair of lovers who are indifferent to everything, but in the face of the murder case, the mask-like indifference obviously cannot hang on.

"Can you press this matter down?" The man's name is He Ye, 28 years old, with a worried look on his face.

"Press it down?" Hua Chong raised an eyebrow slantingly.

"It's like this." He Ye wiped his sweat, his artistic atmosphere disappeared, and he finally looked like a businessman who cares about money. "As you can see, our business here is not very good, there are not many customers, and we are losing money one after another. The two partners have already negotiated that once someone takes over, even if the price is lower, the yard of the house will be sublet out."

He Ye hadn't finished speaking, but Hua Chong had already understood.

Now is the critical period for homestay subletting. If there is news of the murder of a guest, it will definitely have an impact on the subletting.

Although this idea is unreasonable, selfish and utilitarian, it is actually not incomprehensible.

It's just that hearing such words suddenly while investigating a case inevitably makes people feel uncomfortable.

Hua Chong's gaze swept across He Ye, and then landed on the female boss. The female boss immediately looked away and brushed her hair helplessly.

"I can't control the spread of the news." Hua Chong said: "You don't have to be overly anxious, Shi Limiao was not killed here. Even if the news spreads, it will affect you, and the impact will not be too great."

"That's what you said..." He Ye frowned anxiously, and changed the subject after a while, "Forget it, I understand. Do you have anything to ask me?"

Hua Chong suddenly had a strange feeling, but this feeling was as fleeting as lightning, and he failed to grasp it.

After lowering his eyes for a moment, Hua Chong looked at the two of them again, "Have you had any contact with Shi Limiao?"

This was just a routine question, but He Ye's answer was beyond Hua Chong's expectation.

"Yes, yes!" His tone was unnatural, mixed with asking for credit and flinching, "Have you heard of 'Liujia rice noodles'? It is very famous in our Xiling City. Shi Limiao asked me where it was when I first came here There are special dishes, and I happened to be going to 'Liu's Rice Noodles', so I took her there."

Hua Chong's eyes suddenly changed, "Liu family rice noodles"?

It's normal for a tourist from other places to ask what local delicacies are available in the homestay. "Liu's Rice Noodles" is very famous in Xiling City, not to mention Shi Limiao who came to visit, even he and Liu Zhiqin have also tasted it.

It was just an ordinary restaurant, but in the restaurant, there was a young man who caught the attention of senior detectives at a glance.

At the same moment, Liu Zhiqin accidentally caught a thin figure in the surveillance of the "Village Love" farmhouse.