sunk in yesterday

At exactly nine o'clock, the consultant entered the restaurant and asked everyone to leave.

His role in staying in Xu's house is to prepare three meals for them besides hosting the game. The seven decided to divide into two groups, one group stayed in the living room to keep an eye on the advisor's movements, and the other group took this opportunity to take advantage of their unpreparedness. third floor.

Yang Yin said: "Guan Qiang and I are going up, there must be at least three people staying."

Xia Zhuo immediately held Guan Yuzhou's arm without letting go, and said coquettishly, "I want to go with Brother Qiang."

Zhao Bin took a step forward and volunteered: "Then take another one of me, and I will do all the physical work that needs to be carried."

"Okay." Yang Yin nodded, and was about to turn around when Ke Jingsheng said hastily, wait a minute.

The four people who were about to go upstairs stopped in their tracks and turned to look at the big star who was speaking.Yang Yin was a little puzzled, "What's wrong?"

Ke Jingsheng turned sideways slightly, revealing the two women covered by him behind him, "Zhao Bin is stronger, so let's stay and protect them. I can also do physical work and so on, and I can help."

Zhao Bin hesitated, looked at Ge Rongrong and He Jia who were supporting each other, then made up his mind, and said bluntly: "Okay, then I will stay. Go up quickly, don't close the door, if the aborigines come out I will There will be noises to remind you."

Yang Yin didn't say anything, she just raised her hand and patted him on the shoulder.

Xia Zhuo felt that Yang Yin must have a leadership style at work. Although there was no verbal communication, his facial expressions and movements made people feel like they were shouldering a heavy burden, and their sense of responsibility increased along the way.

Typical social strong woman.

The two groups of people separated in front of the stairs. Zhao Bin took the two women to sit on the sofa and continued the unfinished card game last night. The remaining four walked upstairs back and forth, and went up to the third floor in one breath.

This floor was omitted when the consultant took them on a tour yesterday, so everything here was unknown to them.However, the difference from the first and second floors can be seen at a glance. The walls here are no longer Xu Mengzhi's artistic photos, but some well-framed landscape paintings.

Xia Zhuo couldn't help tugging at the hem of Guan Yuzhou's clothes, "Why isn't there a photo of his daughter on the third floor? Is everything that can be placed downstairs?"

He stared at the expensive-looking jade cabbage carvings placed against the wall, and then looked around, and found something even stranger, "The decoration on the third floor is obviously much taller, and the two floors downstairs don't look like it at all. I don’t realize that the Xu family is rich. In such a comparison, it seems that the two floors below are deliberately left blank.”

Guan Yuzhou nodded.

Xia Zhuo continued to guess: "However, rich people have a lot of things to do, especially those who do business pay attention to Feng Shui... Well, maybe there is a reason for this?"

"Probably so."

"But the design of their house is completely reversed. They put the simplicity in front of the guests, but live in a luxurious atmosphere. No matter how you look at it, it is against Fengshui."

"The first and second floors are for outsiders to see, and the third floor is for yourself." Guan Yuzhou said: "The father-daughter relationship between Xu Mengzhi and the old Patriarch should not be as good as we think."

Xia Zhuo was thoughtful, "Do you want to find out who killed Xu Mengzhi?"

"There's no need to think so much now." Guan Yuzhou smiled and rubbed his hair, "They're still waiting, let's go there first."

Yang Yin tried which door could be pushed open, but all the way down was locked.

Ke Jingsheng hesitated, "Could there be a key hidden downstairs, and you need to find it before you can come up and open the door?"

Yang Yin was a little disappointed, she didn't have much hope at first.

But when he walked to the fourth room slightly inside, the door was not closed, but ajar.

She turned her head and looked at the others, raised her hand and tapped lightly on the door panel, and waited until there was no movement before pushing the door open.

All the images in the brain supplement did not appear, and what appeared in front of their eyes was just a normal bedroom.After confirming that there was no one inside, the four of them left the door open and walked in together.

The curtains in the bedroom were not drawn, and the light was plentiful and evenly illuminated in every corner.There is a slight buzzing overhead, the ventilation facility is running, and the switch is on the wall within easy reach, next to the button of the overhead light in a row.

There is a dark golden carpet under the mahogany bed, an LCD TV hangs on the wall, and the cloakroom is full of high-end suits and accessories.

Ke Jingsheng took out a gemstone cufflink from it, and quickly came to a conclusion, "This is not a consultant's room, everything is very expensive. The suits in the cabinet are not suitable for young people in their early 20s, it should be from my hometown The master's bedroom."

Thinking that the old Patriarch was dead and that these were all his inheritance, Ke Jingsheng silently put the cufflinks back in place.

Fearing that the buzzing sound above his head would overwhelm the signal that Zhao Bin would send later, Yang Yin went to the door and turned off the ventilation equipment, and the four of them started a carpet-like search in this bedroom.

Xia Zhuo noticed that the photo frame placed on the bedside table was clean, but the screws at the back were loose, and the original photos inside should have been taken out by someone.

In the first compartment of the drawer are some commonly used medicines, anti-inflammatory, for stomach problems, and some vitamin tablets; in the second compartment there is only a charger, which looks strange and he has never seen it before.

There was a pen in the third bottom compartment, but the drawer got stuck when it was pulled halfway.He reached out his hand to grope inside, and took out the palm-sized notepad hidden in the innermost part along with the dust.

The cover of the notepad is made of transparent plastic, and the scratches on it prove that it has been several years old.

There are a lot of daily expenses recorded in it. At the beginning, there are many traces of alteration. It can be seen that there are always mistakes in the calculation of accounts and there is no experience, but the more it goes on, the more detailed it is. Xia Zhuo can even use these notes to make up a man sitting on the bedside. A scene of frowning and calculating expenses for daily life.

He looked at a small notebook for a long time, and when he turned to the back, he finally found something different from the account book.

It was a string of phone numbers, followed by "Professor Zou, Research and Development Department".

He went to the previous one to check the date, and walked to Guan Yuzhou, "How many years is it here?"

Guan Yuzhou thought of the calendar hanging on the wall of the restaurant, "2030."

"Oh." Xia Zhuo pointed to the notebook, "He contacted this Professor Zou in 2008, and he should have participated in investing in pharmaceutical factories since then. In addition, I found that since 2004 his There was an additional expense of one ratio on the bill, and it multiplied in the next few years, but there was no detail, and I don’t know what the money was used for.”

"How much are those extra expenses?" Yang Yin heard their conversation and leaned over, holding a stack of papers that were neither thin nor thick.

"In the beginning, it was only a little over 2008 per month, and finally in January [-], it could reach [-]."

Yang Yin handed the stack over, "I found this in the TV cabinet, please take a look first."

Guan Yuzhou took it, and Xia Zhuo stretched his neck to see that it was all bank slips, and the name format of all the payers was "xx children's clothing".

The date of these yu-|x~I serial slips starts from the end of 2004, and they are printed every month, and the amount entered also increases linearly.From the first monthly income of 2029 yuan, by 60, the total monthly income of multiple payments will reach nearly [-].

This is simply a rocket-like ascent rate, which is amazing and at the same time can't help but wonder what it is that can make such money.

Xia Zhuo rubbed his chin, "Could it be that the old owner of the Xu family is not only in the pharmaceutical industry, but also has made achievements in the clothing industry?"

"Although he didn't record the expenses after 2008, we might as well make a hypothesis." Guan Yuzhou shook the paper, and at the same time lowered his eyes and asked him: "A person who needs to live by careful calculation suddenly stopped keeping accounts one day. What do you think might be the reason?"

Xia Zhuo reacted quickly, "Because starting from 2008, he no longer has to worry about money, and has enough income to cope with life."

"Correct."

Yang Yin asked, "But why did you give these two things?"

Xia Zhuo shook his head and said with a grin: "Who knows, anyway, just put it away first. Clues are like snowflakes. Only when they accumulate too much can they form a snowball."

Yang Yin smiled, took the slip back into her hand, turned her head and continued to search for other clues.

"It seems that 2004 is a critical time... Hey, Xu Heze is 23 years old this year, and he was not born in 2004. Or the old head of the Xu family met his mother in 2004? So the extra money is also spent on women."

Guan Yuzhou helped him, "Are you tired? Let's take a rest first."

"No, it's just that I just squatted for a long time, and my legs are numb." Xia Zhuo shook his head and yawned.Only halfway through the yawn, he wrinkled his nose strangely again, and sniffed back and forth against Guan Yuzhou, "It seems that there is a strange smell coming from somewhere."

Yang Yin turned to the cloakroom, but Ke Jingsheng who was inside came over with an unnatural expression, "Is there really? I thought there was something wrong with my nose."

Xia Zhuo didn't speak, and discerned more seriously.

This smell is very unique, and it is different from the rotten smell he smelled on Xu Mengzhi's body in the room last night, and the wind outside the window took it away.

He remembered that there was no such smell when he first entered this bedroom, and Yang Yin turned off the ventilation facility, which is probably the purpose of the ventilation facility.

In this case, you have to wait for the smell to be stronger before you can find the source.He turned his face to look at the window, and was about to raise his legs to walk there, but Ke Jingsheng brushed past his shoulder and reached the window first.

The bedroom window is not a sliding type, but a casement type, and now both sides are wide open.Seeing Ke Jingsheng stretched out his upper body to reach for the window handle, Xia Zhuo noticed that there seemed to be a flash of light extending upward when the handle was pulled. He felt that the light was different, and stopped him: "Wait a minute!"

But it was already too late, the flower pot hanging in the sky was pulled by the fishing line, and it fell straight down, brushing against Ke Jingsheng's cheek, leaving only an afterimage.

The sound of a heavy object falling was undoubtedly a thunderclap. Yang Yin walked out of the cloakroom quickly without knowing what had happened, and glanced at the big star who was half-covering his ears by the window, still in shock, and vaguely guessed what happened.

At the same moment when they hadn't made a decision, Zhao Bin downstairs was also coughing quickly, and he was also caught off guard by what happened.

The footsteps came straight upstairs, and it sounded much faster than they expected, two to three times faster than normal walking.The abnormal noise obviously alarmed the aborigines on the first floor. There was nowhere to hide in the bedroom. The only place where people could hide were the cabinets in the cloakroom. But as long as the consultant locked the door, trying to find them would be like catching a turtle in a jar.

Xia Zhuo also calmed down when he met Shangguan Yuzhou's calm gaze. He suddenly remembered something, and gently squeezed Guan Yuzhou's fingertips.

The hurried footsteps were getting closer, and Guan Yuzhou stepped forward to reopen the ventilation facilities.He glanced at Ke Jingsheng lightly, his eyes were bottomless as usual, but there was an obvious warning, and the latter involuntarily clenched his hands for only a moment.

The door was suddenly pushed open, and a gust of wind lifted the dark curtains. The consultant stood under the door, the metal mask on his face reflecting the light from the window.

He searched the surroundings through the two holes in the mask, but there was no one in the bedroom, and the arrangement of all items remained unchanged, except for the window that was closed with only a crack left, as if it was accidentally blown away by the wind. on.

He walked straight towards the window, reached out and pushed the glass hard, leaving a clear handprint on it.

The window frame hit the clean white drainpipe, shaking the plastic pipe.Besides, only the transparent fishing line was still fluttering in the wind, where else was there anyone?

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