stjorthotic Chapter 212
Chapter 212
"How is it? What's the situation outside?" Peng Dacai asked Grandma Deng's arm tightly after the door was closed again at Grandma Deng's house.
Grandma Deng didn't seem to feel the pain in her arm, and immediately replied: "The policemen took away the body and said they would send people to martial law..."
"Da Cai, why don't we find a way to hide out of the building first, and come back after the wind has passed."
Hearing this, Peng Dacai stretched out his hand and scratched his hair irritably, glared at Grandma Deng, and said in an ugly tone: "I didn't ask you to inquire about who is convenient to start with, but you said that this person usually doesn't leave the house, and even a relative or friend can't help it." No."
"How could someone come to him now and even call the police..."
"If I get caught because of this, it's over, and it's all your fault for not investigating properly beforehand."
Grandma Deng is getting old, and for Peng Dacai's "food", even if she wants to investigate clearly, she is not capable enough.
But she didn't think there was anything wrong with Peng Dacai's words.
Grandma Deng said guiltily, "The big fortune is all Grandma's fault, so what should I do now... Otherwise, otherwise, I will go to the police and surrender?"
"No." Peng Dacai immediately denied, "You are so old and weak, how could you kill a young man?"
"Besides, once you show up, if those three people know about it, you will definitely think of me, and they will definitely disclose it to the police."
If the police searched for suspicious persons entering and exiting the Leisure Building, maybe those three people would suspect him...
He couldn't sit still, he had to find a place to hide.
Peng Dacai thought with gloomy eyes.
On the other side, on the 23rd floor, as Peng Dacai thought, Wu Xiajiu, Fang Zi and Lu Nan did immediately think of the suspicious man hiding in Grandma Deng's house.
Seeing a policeman away from the dead man's room and hiding in the stairwell to smoke, Wu Xiajiu followed.
The door of the stairwell was half-closed. Hearing the sound, the policeman who took out the cigarette raised his head and asked Wu Xiajiu if there was anything wrong.
Wu Xiajiu said: "Officer, I heard the conversation between you earlier, most of the flesh on this man's body was cut off... Was it taken to be eaten?"
"I'm a new tenant in the Kangle Building. I didn't expect such a murder to happen in the Kangle Building on the first day."
After all, Wu Xiajiu sighed, his face full of unlucky looks.
Sure enough, the police opposite showed sympathy.
The policeman lit the cigarette in his hand with a lighter, took a puff and slowly exhaled it, and then answered Wu Xiajiu, "Cannibalism? There was a similar case here before."
"It's also the ogre who killed people. You just moved into the Kangle Building, so you have to know."
The policeman held a cigarette in one hand and pointed to a direction outside the door. Wu Xiajiu looked over and raised his eyebrows. That direction seemed to be where Kangfu Building was.
Sure enough, the next moment, the policeman said, "But the previous ogre murder was in the Kangfu Building. At that time, the police used a lot of police force to catch the ogre."
"It's just that in the end, this person was allowed to escape."
Speaking of this, the policeman frowned, took another puff of the cigarette and said, "I suspect that ogre is now hiding in the Kangle Building."
"It is said that the most dangerous place is the safest."
"He committed a crime in the Kangfu Building before, and now he is hiding in the Kangle Building, who would have thought that you are also unlucky, pack up your things before you move in before you move in."
Wu Xiajiu asked: "Officer, can you tell me in detail what happened to the Kang Fu Lou murder?"
"Why is a good building sealed off, just because of the homicide of the ogre?"
"I'm really scared in my heart, knowing it clearly is a mental preparation..."
As if he wanted to say something to relieve the pressure in his heart, the policeman flicked the ashes between his fingers, and said, "This is the place where the first building was built in the old city, so it's a very good location."
"After the completion, everyone wanted to move into the Kangfu Building and the Kangle Building, which led to the continuous addition of these two buildings."
"Later, a Hongqing opera troupe moved in between the corner between Kangfu Building and Kangle Building."
"Hongqing Opera Troupe?" Wu Xiajiu thought of the abandoned house between the two buildings, that is, directly below the passage, and asked, "Is that the small house with a lot of chairs scattered outside?"
The policeman nodded: "That's right, that's right there."
"I remember that someone from the Hongqing troupe knew the people who managed the Kangfu building and the Kangle building, and they brought the troupe here to join them."
The policeman smoked his cigarette, thought carefully, and said, "The person who managed the two buildings at the time was Li Bao's father, Li Zhu, who managed the two buildings and had a lot of money in his hands. , as for that person in the troupe..."
The policeman took a puff of cigarette, shook his head and said, "I don't know if it's the head of Hongqing Opera Troupe or the manager of the troupe who knows Li Zhu."
"Anyway, with Li Zhu's permission, the Hongqing troupe was stationed between the two buildings. At that time, Tai Zhuzi of the Hongqing troupe was married to Li Zhu's son Li Bao. It's a pity."
The policeman sighed at this point: "The Hongqing troupe was popular in the old city for a while, and it was even featured in the newspapers. The troupe who married Li Bao was called Liu Jiaxin, and later gave birth to a son for Li Bao."
"Liu Jiaxin also has a younger sister, Liu Jiayu, who is in school. The two sisters are not bad in appearance."
"Unfortunately, it seems that Liu Jiayu was bullied and bullied on campus when she was in school, and she hanged herself on the night of the troupe's performance when she came back."
"Just above the stage, people were hanging down with the rope, which frightened the audience who were waiting to watch the show."
"Not long after that, maybe three days later, Liu Jiayu's sister, Liu Jiaxin, was dismembered and killed by ogres in the Kangfu Building."
"Her son also died tragically at the hands of the ogre. He was eaten a lot of meat, and his body was mutilated."
"Three murders in a row made all the people living in Kangfu Building move out if they could."
"So this is the reason why Kangfu Building was closed?" Wu Xiajiu asked.
He couldn't help frowning, always feeling that things would not be so simple.
Sure enough, the policeman shook his head and continued, "Not only that, the ogre we wanted to catch lived in the Kangfu Building at the time, and his name was Peng Dacai."
"It's a pity that someone escaped halfway. Many arrest warrants were issued, but they couldn't find any news or clues. I don't know where he hid..."
"Once these three murders happened, even if Hongqing Opera Troupe couldn't continue to operate, after all, Tai Zhuzi died, and there was no one to replace him for a while."
"But unfortunate things still happened. Afterwards, the head of Hongqing Opera Troupe and Li Zhu died one after another. One died in Kangfu Building and the other died in the troupe."
"The people who lived in the Kangfu building also began to die. They all said that the Kangfu building was cursed by ghosts, so gradually, this building was sealed off by Li Bao."
Wu Xiajiu: "So many people died in the Kangfu Building at that time, right?"
"That's right." The policeman nodded and said, the cigarette between his fingers had also been smoked, and the cigarette butt was thrown under his feet, and he crushed it with the toe of his shoe, and then said: "Who would have thought that people would die in the Kangle Building now, that one The flesh of the corpse was obviously frozen for fresh-keeping and eaten by others."
"Perhaps Peng Dacai hid in the Kangle Building. The bureau ordered the building to be closed and searched immediately..."
Wu Xiajiu pretended to remember something and said, "By the way, police officer, today my friend and I went to the [-]th floor to buy lanterns, and found..."
He told the police about finding a man hiding in Grandma Deng's house, and said that he had heard from others that Grandma Deng had always lived alone, and no one had heard of any relatives or friends visiting her.
So, who is the man hiding in Grandma Deng's house?
After listening to Wu Xiajiu's words, the police immediately realized that this might be the key to solving the case, so they hurried out to meet with other policemen, and planned to go to Grandma Deng's house on the [-]th floor to investigate immediately.
Wu Xiajiu also walked out of the stairwell.
Although the police acted quickly, it was a pity that Grandma Deng's house had already been vacated, and Grandma Deng and the man hiding in the house were nowhere to be found.
It is estimated that the sound of the siren when the police first came out had already aroused their vigilance, and now they do not know where they are hiding.
The police asked Li Bao if there was surveillance video in the Kangle Building.
Li Baodao: "No, police officer, this house is so old. Look at the many wires interspersed outside. I am afraid that if I pull the monitoring wires, it will easily trip every day. There is no monitoring even in the elevator."
Hearing that the murderer might have escaped, the middle-aged man who first discovered the body hurriedly said that he had installed a surveillance camera at the stairway on the seventh floor, and he could go to his house to check.
The police went, but after watching all the surveillance videos, they didn't see Grandma Deng and Peng Dacai coming downstairs.
In the Kangle Building, from the twelfth floor down to the sixth floor, and from the sixth floor to the first floor, there is only one side of the stairway. If someone comes down the stairs, the surveillance on the seventh floor cannot miss it.
Furthermore, it was impossible for Grandma Deng and Peng Dacai to escape through the window. It was a twelve-story building, and the height was terrifying.
Not to mention how to find a way to get down, if one is not careful, he will fall to his death.
So the only possibility is that Grandma Deng and Peng Dacai are still in the building, but they don't know which empty room they are hiding in.
According to Li Bao's words, there are vacant rooms on the eighteenth floor up.
The door is old, and the lock is the same. With a little force, the door can be opened.
Hearing that the murderer was still in the building, the middle-aged man turned pale with fright.
"Police officer, police officer, you must protect me. What if the murderer finds me for revenge? I don't want to die." The middle-aged man almost cried, and hurriedly pulled the policeman for help.
No one on Wu Xiajiu's side spoke.
Wan Nianqing and Yun You were also the ones who found the body with the middle-aged man.
However, Wu Xiajiu, Fang Zi, and Lu Nan "accidentally" knew the existence of Peng Dacai before, and then disclosed it to the police.
If Peng Dacai wanted to take revenge, he would definitely count Wu Xiajiu and the others.
However, even if Wu Xiajiu didn't say anything for a long time, the man hiding in Grandma Deng's room also knew that Wu Xiajiu and the others had seen his existence, and with the arrival of the police, they would suspect Wu Xiajiu and the three in their hearts, saying that they had made peace with him. Not to mention there is no difference.
Soon, a lot of policemen came to the Kangle Building, and they were all assigned to start the building inspection. From the [-]th floor down, every room had to be checked.
But the strange thing is, when Phalaenopsis came back with Bai Ge and Xuerong before dark, and the [-]th floor was almost checked, but there was still no sign of Deng Apo and Peng Dacai.
In order not to cause panic, except for Li Bao and others who saw the corpse at the time, the police concealed the tragedy of the corpse from others, only saying that someone died in the room, but the murderer was hidden in the building before he was found. There will be an accident at night, I hope everyone will move out of the Kangle Building temporarily.
But they were asked to move out so suddenly, and where could they live at night? Some people thought that nothing would happen after closing the door, and they were kicked out when the police came.
This is true of most people in the Kangle Building.
The police were helpless, and finally reported it to their superiors, so the police station sent three people to watch on the first floor of the Kangle Building.
The middle-aged man was afraid, so he packed his things and moved out when he returned home.
A small number of residents in the Kangle Building also felt scared and moved out after the police persuaded them.
At six o'clock in the evening, Wu Xiajiu and others gathered in room 1805 to talk about the clues they found.
Wu Xiajiu, Fang Zi and Lu Nan talked about it first.
Followed by Wannianqing and Yunyou.
Wan Nianqing said: "Yunyou and I went to the thirteenth floor and found the small shop selling glutinous rice flour. The owner of the small shop is a man in his 30s, surnamed Jiang."
"This is his business card with a phone number on it, saying that those who live in the same building can deliver meals."
Take out the business card, with the man's name on it, Jiang Zhuo, and the phone number on the back, a very simple piece of paper.
Wan Nianqing glanced at Wu Xiajiu, and said, "Jiang Zhuo is related to the Hongqing Opera Troupe. Yunyou and I saw the kind of long guns specially used for singing in his shop against the wall."
"And the iron pan he used to fry glutinous rice is also very heavy, but Jiang Zhuo holds it very steadily."
"When I asked Yunyou, Jiang Zhuo said that he used to be a martial arts student in the Hongqing Opera Troupe. Later, the Hongqing Opera Troupe closed down and he had to find another job to make a living, so he started frying glutinous rice noodles."
"But the long gun I played with while singing has never been willing to throw it away."
Yunyou continued: "We also asked about Jiang Zhuo, besides him, after the Hongqing troupe was closed, is there anyone in the troupe who has found another job to make a living like him, but still lives in the Kangle Building, Jiang Zhuo says have."
"Who is it?" Lu Nan asked.
Yunyou: "Qian Zhaohong, that boss Qian who runs a grocery store on the first floor, he used to be a member of the Hongqing troupe. According to Jiang Zhuo, he was still in charge of the troupe."
"Wan Nianqing and I ordered two servings of glutinous rice noodles, and sat in Jiang Zhuo's shop while eating and chatting with him."
"There was no one in the store, so Wan Nianqing invited Jiang Zhuo to sit down and have some drinks, and ordered some wine."
Once the wine is drunk, it will be much more convenient and easier to ask questions.
Sure enough, Jiang Zhuo said a lot about Hongqing Troupe.
For example, the troupe owner of the Hongqing Opera Troupe was called Cao Ren, and Qian Zhaohong’s father was a troupe co-founded with Cao Ren, so Qian Zhaohong became the steward of the troupe at a young age.
The Hongqing troupe couldn't continue to work outside before, but Qian Zhaohong pulled the strings and brought the troupe to Kangfu Building and Kangle Building.
Wan Nianqing said: "Qian Zhaohong's mother and Li Zhu are brother and sister, they eloped with someone back then."
"After his parents died, Qian Zhaohong got in touch with Li Zhu. Li Zhu was his uncle, and Li Bao and Qian Zhaohong were cousins."
"Jiang Zhuo said that the Hongqing Opera Troupe was developing well, but who knew that both Tai Zhuzi and the troupe master died one after another, and the troupe disbanded."
Wu Xiajiu asked: "Qian Zhaohong is physically disabled, did Jiang Zhuo say why Qian Zhaohong is disabled?"
Wan Nianqing: "Not really."
Wu Xiajiu: "Since Jiang Zhuo has already mentioned some things about the Hongqing troupe, but did not mention Qian Zhaohong's disability, it means that Qian Zhaohong's disability should have existed before he came to Kangfulou and Kanglelou. "
This matter is not important, let's not mention it for now.
Next is the clue that Phalaenopsis, Baige, and Xuerong went out to find.
Phalaenopsis took out a few newspapers and spread them out on the table, saying: "Some of the clues we found coincide with what you know, and there is another clue that belongs to Liu Jiaxin, the pillar of the Hongqing Opera Troupe."
"Some things about the two sisters Liu Jiaxin and Liu Jiayu were reported in the newspapers, and some were obtained from our inquiries."
"Liu Jiaxin's life after marrying Li Bao was not good. Li Bao had a tendency to domestic violence. For this reason, Liu Jiaxin reported to the police, but it didn't help."
"Li Bao has some influence in this old city, and it's very easy to manage people in the police station with money."
"Soon, Liu Jiaxin was coaxed back by Li Bao, saying that there would be no more domestic violence, and the police didn't deal with it much."
"I don't know what happened afterwards, but there were zero and countless times of domestic violence."
Phalaenopsis turned cold, and continued: "Liu Jiaxin is the pillar of the Hongqing troupe, but she got married and became pregnant, and after giving birth to a son, her figure lost shape."
"I heard that Cao Ren, the theater troupe leader at the time, intended to train Liu Jiaxin's younger sister, Liu Jiayu, to become the next actress, but Liu Jiayu wanted to go to school and didn't want to come back to sing opera, so she stayed at school for a while."
"It was also during that time that it was reported that Liu Jiayu had suffered school violence, and when she came back, she hanged herself on stage when the Hongqing troupe performed on stage."
"Afterwards, the ogre Peng Dacai killed and ate Liu Jiaxin's son, and even dismembered Liu Jiaxin..."
What happened later was similar to what the police told Wu Xiajiu.
But there is a doubt in the clues of these descriptions.
Wu Xiajiu said: "Since Liu Jiayu suffered from campus violence, why did she go back to the Hongqing troupe and hang herself?"
"What's more, he hanged himself with a rope during the first performance of the troupe."
"She doesn't know what kind of blow her death will bring to the Hongqing troupe. The death is too unlucky, and maybe Hongqing troupe will be devastated even if there is no subsequent murder case from now on."
Lu Nan was flipping through the old newspapers that Phalaenopsis had found, and happened to find the one where the photo of Liu Jiayu's death was taken at that time.
——On a well-arranged stage, Liu Jiayu's corpse was wearing a red costume, with his head tilted, his long hair hanging down, covering his face.
Her body seemed to be floating on the stage, terrifying and shocking.
Wu Xiajiu looked down at this kind of newspaper that published photos and felt his heart tremble, and it was hard to look directly at it, let alone the audience of the troupe who were facing Liu Jiayu's death at that time.
If someone with a bad heart happened to be there, he would probably have a heart attack right away.
Phalaenopsis nodded and said, "That's right, it's really puzzling here. Usually, those children who have suffered severe school violence, if they really have the idea of suicide, they either commit suicide at school, at home, or in other places."
"But hanging himself... This way of death is very painful. It will not die immediately, but after struggling, the shin bone will break and then slowly suffocate to death."
"What's more, the report said that the rope that hanged Liu Jiayu suddenly brought Liu Jiayu down. Before he died, Liu Jiayu looked at the audience with his eyes open, without even a trace of struggle."
"She hanged herself from a very high place, and by the time others found a ladder to save her, Liu Jiayu would have died."
Bai Gezi whispered: "Maybe she felt bullied at school and mentioned it to the theater troupe or her sister Liu Jiaxin several times, but they didn't pay attention to it. In order to get revenge on the theater troupe and Liu Jiaxin, she hanged herself on the stage of the theater troupe?"
Wu Xia took a long look at her and said, "It is indeed possible."
White Pigeon smiled shyly.
Seeing this, Xue Rong secretly rolled her eyes.
But immediately after, Wu Xiajiu said: "But why did Liu Jiayu hang himself in a red costume? He wore a red dress before he died, because he wanted to become a ghost after death to take revenge on someone?"
"You must know that after the three murders, Cao Ren, the head of the theater troupe, and Li Zhu, the father of Li Bao, also died successively."
Lu Nan frowned and said, "I'm afraid there is something we don't know about it."
"Hongqing Opera Troupe, the two sisters Liu Jiaxin and Liu Jiayu...the reason why Liu Jiayu committed suicide."
"Also, if it was really a ghost that killed him, why did Li Zhu and Cao Ren die, while Li Bao and the rest of the troupe were fine? Didn't Li Bao once domestically abused Liu Jiaxin?"
Fang Zi: "The ogre Peng Dacai also has a problem with killing people. He eats people. He kills people first and then cuts off the tender parts of the corpses. But why did Liu Jiaxin die by dismembering the corpses?"
"The report didn't mention that Liu Jiaxin was missing meat."
Wan Nianqing: "So you mean there was another reason for Liu Jiaxin's death?"
Liu Jiaxin's son may have been killed by Peng Dacai, but she may not have been.
Fang Zi shrugged his shoulders and said, "I guess so."
The clues they found talked about now, almost two hours have passed.
Almost everything that should be said has been said, so Phalaenopsis, Evergreen and others separated, left the room of Wu Xiajiu and the three of them, and went back to the room to rest.
Nothing happened in the middle of the night, after one o'clock in the morning, two people crawled out of the garbage passage in the building, it was Grandma Deng and Peng Dacai.
They came to the twelfth floor quietly.
Then, Peng Dacai found tools from the room, and pried open the two iron doors leading to the passageway of Kangfu Building...