crime profiler in the dark

Due to the limited space in the houseboat, the layout of the bedroom is very simple. On the left is a simple bed with a width of one meter. The bed is covered with floral sheets that have been washed into dark red. Opposite the bed is an old-fashioned wooden table. The table is now covered with dust, and there is a bench next to it. At that time, it fell not far from where Li Mei hanged herself. Later, after inspection by the support department, there was no footprint of Li Mei on the chair, which indicated that the murderer deliberately placed it on the chair. Pushed to the ground.Everything that had been placed on the bed and table had been taken away by the police.

Textbooks, homework books, calculators, schoolbags, and change are placed on the bed, and leftover instant noodles are placed on the table.Bai Haolin restored the previous appearance in his mind based on the photos taken at the scene and the descriptions in the materials.

Bai Haolin walked to the table. He remembered that in the photos of the scene of the crime, two packs of instant noodles were placed on the extreme left of the table, leaving an area of ​​nearly one meter in other places, and schoolbags, books and other things were placed on the left side of the table. On the bed, the place where Li Mei and the murderer had sex is here, so the chair fell not far away, not because the murderer wanted to pretend to be Li Mei’s suicide, but because the chair was in the way of the table, so he rudely moved it. Push or kick aside.

"Officer Liu, has the chair been checked?" Bai Haolin asked.

"I saw that the police assistants checked the fingerprints and footprints, and the fingerprints were only Li Mei's, but there were no footprints of hers," Police Officer Liu replied.

"Did you only check the top?" Bai Haolin confirmed.

Seeing Bai Haolin asking this question and standing in front of the table, Fang Xiang felt something. He walked quickly to the chair, took out the gloves in his bag, and carefully moved the chair to an open place. After a while, he yelled: "Here is a shoe print!!" In the middle of a chair leg, there was a palm-sized shoe print. Judging from the pattern on the sole, it was a pair of sports shoes, and Li Mei was He was wearing sandals, which meant that they were the murderer's shoe prints!

Officer Liu took out the camera he carried with him to take pictures of the shoe prints, and praised: "It's amazing, Officer Fang! So many people didn't pay attention, and you actually discovered it!"

Fang Xiang smiled smugly, noncommittal.

The chair is now an important evidence. Police officer Liu carefully moved it outside, and planned to move it to the police car driven by Fang Xiang in a while, so that it could be transported back to the support department of the police station for a thorough inspection.

Bai Haolin walked under the cabin beam again, and looked up.

The bedroom is only two meters high. Due to poor ventilation, a skylight was opened above. Because the glass was broken a few years ago, and Li Dahai's family rarely lived here, they didn't bother to reinstall it, so the upper part was empty. Only the wooden beam of a cross was left, and the iron chain that lifted Li Mei went around here, and there are still some traces of friction on it.

Having seen everything that could be seen and found nothing else, Bai Haolin and Fang Xiang thanked Li Dahai and said goodbye.

At this time, the sky began to darken. Officer Liu and the two left together, just in time to meet children in the village coming home from school. A nursery rhyme was recited loudly, especially when they walked in front of Li Dahai's house, the voice became louder:

"The red house lived with the red baby

Red doll in a red dress

A red anchor hangs under the feet of the red baby

The red chain hangs the red baby around the red beam

Red baby, red baby

Who took your red life child? "

After a while, Li Dahai ran out with a broom:

"Go away!! Get out of here!!!" He shouted and waved his broom.

"Hahaha!" The children also rushed away. When one of the children ran past the three of them, Fang Xiang grabbed him and asked:

"What did you read just now?"

"Nursery rhyme!" The child who looked only seven or eight years old replied.

"Can you read it to me again?"

"The red house lived with the red child, the red child was wearing a red skirt, a red anchor was hung at the foot of the red child, and the red chain was hung around the red beam, and the red child was hung, red child, red child, who took your red life child ?” The child finished in one go.

"Is this a nursery rhyme circulating in the village?" Fang Xiang asked again.

"I don't know, it became popular some time ago, and everyone is reading this." The child said.

"We didn't hear this nursery rhyme when we came last time." Officer Liu felt a little creepy.

Is it a child's prank?Bai Haolin was a little surprised, he asked:

"Officer Liu, do everyone in the village know the details of the case? For example, what the deceased was wearing? The anchor under his feet?"

"This is a small village, and everything spreads quickly. But I'm not sure if they all know. It stands to reason that after taking pictures of the scene, Dahai and I put Li Mei's body down, and no one saw it. That's it." Officer Liu replied.

The details of the case are only known to the police, but the children's nursery rhymes are sung in great detail. Could it be that the murderer made them up?Do you want everyone to know what you've done?Bai Haolin thought about it.

Fang Xiang said with a serious expression: "Officer Liu, this matter is no small matter. The children are probably instigated by the murderer. We must find the first child who sings this nursery rhyme!!"

Officer Liu nodded. He squatted halfway and asked the child, "Who taught you this nursery rhyme?"

"Fang Erwa from class two, grade three in the village elementary school." The child said timidly, not knowing if he had done something wrong.

Officer Liu nodded and let the child go home. It was getting late now, so he had to go to the village primary school tomorrow to ask questions.

Fang Xiang discussed with Bai Haolin and decided to visit Li Mei's school again.Ten minutes later, the two arrived at Kangzhen No. 10 Middle School where Li Mei was studying under the leadership of Police Officer Liu. Officer Liu took them to the principal's office.

The principal, surnamed Zhang, is a man in his 60s. He wears a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, a suit and leather shoes, and has a barcode hairstyle that is popular at his age. After listening to Officer Liu’s introduction, he was a little strange:

"The last time Officer Sun and the others came, I already told him everything I knew."

"There are new clues in the case, so there are still some things to be confirmed." Fang Xiang answered skillfully.

"Oh——" Principal Zhang dragged his voice, and at the same time helped his glasses on the railing.

According to Officer Sun's last investigation, Li Mei was relatively introverted at school, had few friends, and had a cold relationship with her roommates, so she didn't have any useful clues.

Fang Xiang asked some questions similar to Lao Sun, and Principal Zhang answered them one by one, but his attitude became more and more impatient. Seeing this, Bai Haolin whispered to him:

"How about we meet Li Mei's roommate?"

Fang Xiang made this request to Principal Zhang. Principal Zhang frowned, thought for a while, and then called the administrator of the girls' dormitory and asked her to bring the children here.

About ten minutes later, three girls entered the principal's office led by a middle-aged woman. They were Li Mei's roommates.

"We are the police, and I want to ask you about Li Mei." Fang Xiang said, "Who does Li Mei have the best relationship with?"

"She doesn't talk very much. We call her to eat and play, but she doesn't stay with us. As time goes by, everyone stops calling her." The girl in the floral dress replied.

"Has she dated anyone?" Fang Xiang asked again.

"No." The girl in the flowery skirt answered first, and the other two girls also shook their heads, but Bai Haolin noticed that the girl with the ponytail on the left shook her head very lightly, and when she heard this question, she was originally placed between the two. There is a change in the hands on the side, the right hand holds the wrist of the left hand, and rubs the arm lightly with the thumb - this is a defensive and comforting behavior, the girl knows something, but for some reason does not say it