Despicable Games [lower part]

"The soles of Gao Xianren and his junior brother's shoes are stained with colored pieces of paper." Kang Wenwen said while tugging on Du Qianlin's sleeve with one hand.

"Zuixian Tower will set up a table at the door at noon every day, select a girl to cover her face with a light gauze, dance and sing, and every time the singing or dancing reaches a wonderful place in the middle, the pieces of colored paper will be sprinkled from the second floor flower table .”

"Gao Xianren lives in the Zuixian Building? Isn't that... where he lives?" Zhang Dengjin was shocked, he didn't even dare to think about it.

Kang Wenwen shook his head, "Of course it's impossible to live in such a ostentatious place, but the big hermit hides in the world, and the more prosperous the place, the more dark corners there are. Hiding there is the safest place."

"I remember that there is no inn there." Du Qianlin asked aloud.

"Indeed." Kang Wenwen nodded, "But apart from the pieces of paper that fell from the soles of their feet, there were some mud spots on the back of their calves."

Du Qian Lin Sisuo said, "Mud? But it hasn't rained during this time, even if you go out of the city, you won't step on muddy water and splash your legs."

Kang Wenwen jumped in another direction, "There are no residential buildings on the side of Zuixian Tower, only some market places that are open during the day. But during this time, there is a door that has been closed tightly, and it is said to be repairing the shop."

Du Qianlin suddenly laughed and said, "Your insight is not comparable to many people."

"Are you praising me?" Kang Wenwen asked

"Then what else?" Du Qianlin squeezed Kang Wenwen's hand and said with a smile.

Only then did Kang Wenwen realize that he was still holding on to his sleeve, and quickly let go, "I'm afraid you're going to turn the corner and talk about me, but I don't understand."

"When did I turn the corner and tell you?" Du Qianlin asked.

Kang Wenwen dodged his eyes unnaturally, "Before."

Seeing Kang Wenwen's expression was different, Du Qianlin was about to ask Zhang Dengjin and interrupted them.

"What charades are you two playing again?"

Kang Wenwen looked at Du Qianlin. Du Qianlin smiled and shrugged at Zhang Dengjin. He didn't speak, but walked forward.

Opposite Zuixianlou is an old wine shop. The third one next door used to sell fabrics, but they heard that something happened at home and they sold the shop. The current owner wants to renovate the shop because they want to sell balm.

The bustard of Zuixianlou was terrified every day after Hua'er's death, but now seeing Du Qianlin and Kang Wenwen again, he answered every question, as honest as a quail.

"When was that shop sold?" Du Qianlin asked.

The old bustard said, "I can't remember that clearly, um... I remember that the material shop didn't say it would be sold until a young year later."

Standing behind Du Qianlin, Kang Wenwen whispered, "The first lunar month... It's been four or five months now, and it hasn't been decorated yet?"

The old bustard heard Kang Wenwen's words, and hurriedly said, "Within four or five months, no one bought this shop. The original owner was busy going home, so he handed over the house deed to the shopkeeper of the tavern opposite. It's time to sell."

"The shopkeeper of the tavern opposite?" Du Qianlin turned his head to look.

Then he said to the old bustard, "Okay, I'll come to you again if I need anything."

When the old bustard heard this, his face instantly turned bitter, but he still kept laughing and said yes.

"Is Butou Lu here to buy wine?" The tavern clerk had been paying attention to Du Qianlin and the others when they were standing at the door of Zuixianlou, and immediately greeted them when they saw them turn around and walk towards their own shop.

"I don't want to buy wine, I have something to do with your shopkeeper." Du Qianlin had a straight face, but he was quite capable of bluffing.

Du Qianlin couldn't ask any questions after seeing it for a while, so he said to Du Qianlin, "I'll go to the shop first to have a look."

"You..." Du Qianlin grabbed Kang Wenwen, he didn't want Kang Wenwen to act alone, so he said to Zhang Dengjin, "You go with Wenwen."

Kang Wenwen curled his lips and said in his heart that he was not a child of a few years old, but he still agreed to take Zhang Dengjin to the back door of the shop.

"Can you pick a lock?" Kang Wenwen asked suddenly.

Zhang Dengjin was stunned, "I can't."

Kang Wenwen raised his eyes and looked at the wall. Although it was not high, it was a bit embarrassing for him to be unable to use his arms.

"You want to fuck?" Zhang Dengjin said, "How do you turn around like this? Let me go in and have a look."

As he spoke, he eagerly stretched his muscles and bones under the wall.

Kang Wenwen felt unreliable when he saw his paunchy appearance.And if Zhang Deng got in, he still couldn't get in.

When he walked to the door and was looking down at the lock, a window suddenly popped out in front of him.

"Do you want to open this door?"

Kang Wenwen's pupils shrank slightly, which only happened when checking the residence of the player who was also a suspect in the old mode.

Could it be that some of Gao Xianren and his junior brother are also players?

But the player couldn't rule out the suspicion of murder, Kang Wenwen raised his hand and clicked "Yes".

As soon as Kang Wenwen stepped into the yard, he heard a muffled sound beside him, and turned his head to see that Zhang Dengjin was lying on the ground.

"you....."

"Oh, let me go, who is so vile in this pile of sand." Zhang Dengjin got up cursingly, and made eye contact with Kang Wenwen.

"You...how did you get in? Do you have the key?!" Zhang Dengjin pointed at Kang Wenwen and stared and shouted.

Kang Wenwen was at a loss for a while, "No, it's the system..."

"You knew how to open the door and asked me to go, ah! I can't do it, I'm tired, I'm heartbroken! You lied to me——" Zhang Dengjin sat on the ground and started spitting.

Kang Wenwen was really dumbfounded, "No, I didn't lie to you, this door system will show whether the door can be opened."

Zhang Dengjin didn't wipe away his tears when he heard that, he got up and rushed to the door to check.

"Liar, no!"

Kang Wen heard the words and frowned and walked over, "You have to watch for a while before he jumps out..."

Before he finished speaking, Kang Wenwen froze in place.

Indeed no more.

According to the normal procedure, after opening the door and then approaching the door, the system will display whether to close the door, but no matter how I look at it now, no window pops out no matter how I stand.

Zhang Dengjin looked at Kang Wenwen with weird eyes. Although Kang Wenwen knew it was too abnormal, he couldn't explain it to Zhang Dengjin.

Both of them waited eagerly for Du Qianlin to come back quickly.

Zhang Dengjin stood by the door and continued to study the door, while Kang Wenwen paid close attention to it.

There are three rooms in the courtyard, and the one facing the street has two floors.Kang Wenwen pushed the door open and walked in. There were only some wood and lime inside that looked like they were going to be renovated.

Back in the yard, Zhang Dengjin could clearly see a sunken mark where he fell before.Kang Wenwen approached to check, the place was filled with sand instead of soil, just now Zhang Dengjin also thought it was compact soil before jumping down, but he didn't expect it to be smooth sand.

Kang Wenwen turned around and looked at the well two steps away. The well was a little short. If you looked carefully, you could see that a small part of the well was in the soil, but the ground of the whole yard was very flat without any bumps or depressions.

Did you fill in the entire yard?

There are traces of water immersion and some deep footprints in front of the well.It seems that the puddles were formed when the water was splashed here, and the mud spots behind the feet of Gao Xianren's junior should be splashed here.

This shop is an old shop, and the backyard has been trampled on by many people for many years, and the soil under their feet has been trampled tightly.Not to mention some spilled water, even if a bucket of water is poured on the ground, it will not easily form a muddy pond.

"Are you standing at the door watching the wind?" Du Qianlin's voice came from the door.

Kang Wenwen immediately lost his thoughts and turned to look.

"No, I'm studying this door. Kang Wenwen opened it without a key." Zhang Dengjin said.

Du Qianlin thought it was something, "What's the matter? The system will pop up the window and ask."

"I know, but this door can't be closed. Wouldn't there be a system prompt when closing the door?" Zhang Dengjin said.

Du Qianlin glanced at Kang Wenwen, who was standing silently in the yard, and turned his head to approach the door, without any hint.

"I don't know what's going on, it really happened just now." Kang Wenwen said.

Du Qianlin looked at the old wooden door in front of him, wondering what he was thinking, but immediately turned around and smiled at Kang Wenwen, "It's okay, it may be an update of the new model. Don't worry about such trivial things."

Zhang Dengjin felt the same way, he just opened the door.Although he was sitting there just now, it was more of a joke. Even if Kang Wenwen really had the key and didn't tell him, what else could he do?Looking at Lin Zai's current appearance of being in love, Zhang Dengjin feels sad.

But Kang Wenwen always felt that something was wrong, but he didn't say much.Pointing to the well, he told Du Qianlin his guess.

"Fill the soil in the yard again?" Du Qianlin stomped on the ground under his feet. "It's really a big project, but I asked the tavern manager just now, and he said that except for pulling in wood and limestone at the beginning There is no big object outside of people, or many people have entered here."

Since he had no idea, Kang Wenwen and Du Qianlin went to a side room to check.

Kang Wenwen went to Gao Xianren's room, with simple interior furnishings.There is only a soft cushion for palm reading on the table, and his cyst is placed beside the bed.

After Kang Wenwen memorized the location, he reached out to open the bundle.

There were only two changes of clothes inside.

The clothes were neatly folded, Kang Wenwen carefully opened them, and then folded them back.

But when he checked the second piece of clothing, Kang Wen smelled a familiar smell from the tip of his nose.

"spices?"

Kang Wenwen immediately sniffed the clothes in a 'carpet style', and finally found out where the faint smell came from.

Holding the sleeve of his clothes, Kang Wenwen sniffed carefully, "The sleeve of the right hand?"

"What are you doing?" Du Qianlin stood by the door with a changing expression.

Kang Wenwen didn't seem to see his face, and waved to him excitedly, "Du Qianlin, come here. You have a good nose, come and smell it."

Du Qian's face was like the bottom of a pot, and he wanted to remind Kang Wenwen not to sniff at other men's clothes like this, but looking at Kang Wenwen's appearance, he must have found some clues.

"Am I a dog?" Du Qianlin walked over unhappy.

Kang Wenwen said, "No, but your nose is better than mine."

Du Qianlin accepted his order to be Kang Wenwen's police dog, sniffed around the cuff and Du Qianlin pointed out a location.

"This is the place where the spices have been stained, and other places are full of false smells."

Kang Wenwen was surprised, "You can smell this?"

Du Qianlin's face turned even darker, "Didn't you just ask me to smell this?"

"...No." Kang Wenwen said awkwardly, he just wanted Du Qianlin to smell it too.

Du Qianlin took out the clothes in his hand and asked, "Then what do you want me to smell?"

"This spice is the same as that on that ogre." Kang Wen heard.

"Gao Xianren really met the ogre." Du Qianlin said.

Kang Wenwen said, "This is not the most important point. It is reasonable for the two of them to say that they had a fight and smelled the fragrance when they met. But now the fragrance is only on one end of the cuff, and only a little bit."

Du Qianlin didn't respond, "What does this mean?"

Kang Wenwen raised his sleeve and pointed to the place where Gao Xianren's clothes were stained with spices.

"This is the inside of the wrist, a place that is not easily touched by foreign objects."

Du Qianlin tried it, nodded and said, "Indeed, if it is to try the fragrance, it should be on the back of the hand, or the side of the cuff seam when the palm is turned over. This position on the inside of the wrist must be touched by some special movement. "

"And the smell is so strong, it should have been touched for some time." Kang Wenwen continued.

Du Qianlin nodded in agreement.

"Did you find anything in his junior brother's room?" Kang Wenwen asked.

Du Qianlin said, "There is nothing in the room, not even a sheet or quilt cover on the bed. But it seems to smell like medicine."

"Is there no bed sheet or quilt cover? His junior brother doesn't live here? Gao Xianren said that they talked by candlelight last night. Could it be that they really didn't rest but chatted in this room until dawn?"

Du Qianlin shook his head, "I think someone lived in that room."

As he spoke, he dragged Kang Wenwen to that room.

After entering the room, Kang Wenwen didn't smell the medicine that Du Qianlin said, but he didn't suspect that Du Qianlin was lying to him, he just thought his nose was really strong.

"Look here." Du Qianlin pulled him to the bed and pointed to the mattress.

"There is no dust on the quilt, and the sheets should have been taken down recently. And although the cotton batting in the middle has collapsed, it is not hard. This is a new quilt, and it has only been slept on in the past few days."

Kang Wenwen lowered his head and wanted to take a closer look, but was stopped by Du Qianlin, "What are you doing, don't just lean up and smell it."

"Oh." Kang Wenwen pursed his lips.

"Besides these, this bed still smells like medicine." Du Qianlin grabbed the quilt with one hand and shook it.

It did smell like medicine, but Du Qianlin didn't say that Kang Wenwen didn't notice it at all.

"It still smells like blood." Du Qianlin said suddenly.

"Blood?" Kang Wenwen turned to look at him.

Du Qianlin nodded, "I thought it was from the yard before, but after shaking it twice just now, the smell is weaker than before. It should be the smell of blood on the quilt."

Kang Wenwen didn't pay attention to the following words, and said seriously, "The smell of blood in the yard?"

Du Qianlin nodded, "Didn't you smell it? The smell of blood in the yard is stronger than here."

Kang Wenwen shook his head, he really didn't smell it.He walked out the door quickly and looked at the flat ground in the yard.

"It's not what I think it is, is it?"

Du Qianlin followed, hesitating to say, "Just because it smells like blood doesn't necessarily mean that."

Zhang Dengjin, who was standing in the yard boredly looking at the well, heard the two start to be fascinated again, and asked curiously, "What's like that?"

Kang Wenwen's palms hanging by his side trembled a little, "This yard is very likely..."

"It's where the ogre skinned people."

Zhang Dengjin's face changed, and he almost fell into the well.

Before Du Qianlin could pull him, he suddenly jumped up and ran out the door.Then there was the sound of vomiting.

Kang Wenwen looked at the loess in the yard, and felt chills in his heart.

The ground here should be lower than it is now, and there are probably bloodstains under the later filled land.

"If it's here... then the murderer is too courageous." Du Qianlin patted Kang Wenwen's stiff back.