Chapter 144 Tea Party in the Living Room
Interior of Villa Lekaon:
11:10 noon
When the long-winded mother-in-law left the living room on the second floor, Yun Yeyao immediately asked Xie Yunmeng in a low voice: "Is the little girl below okay?"
"Have you noticed that his clothes were covered with blood?" Xie Yunmeng asked back.
Yun Yeyao then shook his head and said, "No! When I lifted a corner of the blanket, I only saw the clothes on her shoulders, and there were no strange traces there."
"When I hid the little girl in the quilt, I took off all the blankets on her body. There was a lot of blood on the inside of the blanket and on the girl's clothes and skirts, but the girl was not injured, which proved that it was blood stained from others."
"Is it possible that it is the blood stain left when slaughtering poultry?" Yun Yeyao confirmed.
Xie Yunmeng shook his head and said, "I thought it was the case at first, but the blood was salty. Moreover, slaughtering poultry would not make the skirts and socks covered with blood! So I think it must be the blood stains left by someone who was killed or seriously injured, and it is very likely that it is Xiaobu or Ning Ya."
"That's bad! Maybe the little girl is helping them, but she was discovered by the suspect in this family, so she was thrown into the forest. But what I don't understand is that since she was discovered, why didn't the suspect kill her directly?"
Regarding this question, Xie Yunmeng can only say that he doesn’t know about it at the moment!
Yun Yeyao continued: "What should have happened to this house before we come? We must figure it out and stop the suspect's next action. I just observed it roughly. The house has three floors in total. The three rooms upstairs should be the owner, the housekeeper, the mother-in-law and the little maid. The mother-in-law and the little maid should live in the same room."
"The living room occupies one floor. Below the kitchen, the bathroom is the only small room where the housekeeper enters. I don't feel like a living room. Overall, I guess there are only a few people in this family."
Xie Yunmeng said: "Then the person we suspect should be the housekeeper and mother-in-law."
"No, Xiao Meng, the little maid cannot be excluded from the list of suspects. It is very strange that she was not injured at all, but was stunned and fainted in the forest. I said that if the suspect in this case was greedy for property, he would not be able to leave the house. So he would definitely whitewash himself first."
"There are various ways to whitewash. Maybe it is to rescue the buried victim, but what if the victim is rescued by others? You should know that there are more than just suspects in this family, and everyone is a person who has lived in the forest for many years. Turning yourself into someone who is almost victimized is also a way to whitewash."
"But Xiaoyao, don't forget that the footprints in the forest were deliberately erased."
"I know, but those footprints may not have been erased by the person involved. Maybe they were traces of the suspect's discovery that the scene was destroyed and then erased? In this case, first of all, we must keep an eye on the little maid in the room and wait for her to wake up to find out what happened before she fell into a coma. Then, we must find Xiaobu and Ning Yu as soon as possible, at least one of them.
"The pieces of the puzzle must be in this family, but the problem is that we need to find someone who can tell the truth. There is one more thing that I have never been relieved!"
Xie Yunmeng asked: "What's the matter?"
"When you first arrived at the murder scene of the apartment yesterday, there was really no one there?"
"yes!"
"It's hard to say. Let's analyze it. Before the police arrive at the murder scene, the murderer has no time or chance of running away. Then it's only after the police arrive."
"You mean, someone is still hiding in the apartment after I arrived?" Xie Yunmeng was surprised. He continued: "It's impossible. I opened almost all the places in the apartment that could be opened, and there was no one at all."
"Xiao Meng, I didn't say there must be, I just doubt that there is such a possibility. Besides, have you really opened all the places that the apartment can open?"
"What do you mean?"
"Roof, haven't you found that the roof of the apartment is not a whole piece, but a spliced?"
Xie Yunmeng was almost impressed by Yun Yeyao's imagination again. He threw a grain of millet into the bird's nest with a drawer and said, "Xiaoyao, the murderer didn't even have enough time to enter and exit the wardrobe, and he could climb the roof? Besides, how rich your imagination is. The roof looks like a piece of wood, but in fact it is just a decoration effect. It's still a whole piece. If you don't believe it, you can go to someone upstairs to take a look next time! You said that if there is a place that can be opened, will so many of our senior investigators not be able to find it?"
"I just guess it casually. Sometimes the ideas cannot be 100% correct! Just like me, I can make mistakes occasionally!" Yun Yeyao said with his head turned around and pretended to observe the situation in the room.
"So you will admit that you are wrong!" Xie Yunmeng said, gently picking off some leaves falling from his hair with his hands, and the expression in his eyes became gentle.
Just as the two were whispering, a man's voice suddenly came from above the stairs: "You two look so happy, hello you guys." A hint of envy and a little sadness were mixed in his tone.
Yun Yeyao and Xie Yunmeng turned around and looked up. There was a handsome man as light as mist standing on the stairs. He gave people a sense of tranquility and concentration, but it was not that he had a strong sense of existence.
Yun Yeyao quickly greeted: "Hello, are you the owner of this family?" He asked this on purpose, just to try how the man on the stairs would answer. Because Yun Yeyao read clearly from Xie Yunmeng's eyes beside him. The detective now recognized the person they were facing, which was probably Ning Yu, the suspect in the murder case of the apartment.
Ning Yu paused for a while, as if thinking. Then he spoke slowly, "It's almost 11:30 noon now. Are you not planning to leave the forest and go home quickly?" It was strange that Ning Yu did not answer Yun Yeyao's question directly, but seemed to be urging Yun Yeyao and Xie Yunmeng to leave.
While he was speaking, footsteps came from behind Yun Yeyao and Xie Yunmeng. It was Wei Xinrong, who had repaired the walls and his mother-in-law who had been carrying hot tea upstairs. Wei Xinrong held a thermos in one hand and helped his mother-in-law hold the steaming teapot with the other.
Seeing the two old men bringing tea, Xie Yunmeng and Yun Yeyao were embarrassed to stand there, so they had to give up temporarily and continue talking with Ning Yao and greeted the butler and mother-in-law.
Wei Xinrong smiled and said, "Just just sit there. This family, we were all taking care of us before, and we were used to it."
The mother-in-law urged behind him, "I said Mr. Wei, can you speak when you get upstairs? Old woman, I am still holding a large plate of hot tea cups in my hand! I can't walk anymore!"
"Okay, let's talk about it later." Wei Xinrong quickly accelerated his pace.
After arriving upstairs, each of the few people brought a cup of tea, and then the mother-in-law put the tray on the table and said, "I'll go upstairs and call Tengteng down!"
This was originally a very ordinary sentence, but Yun Yeyao found that when he heard this, the butler and Ning Ya were both obviously stunned, and at the same time looked at the old lady who was about to go upstairs.
Yun Yeyao signaled Xie Yunmeng not to speak out and carefully observed the reactions of the three of them. At this time, the housekeeper reacted. He called his mother-in-law and said, "Is Tengteng in her own room?"
"Yes! I only found it while eating." The mother-in-law stopped and turned around and said, "Mr. Wei, didn't you notice it?"
"What? What did I find?" Wei Xinrong's attitude became increasingly confused.
The mother-in-law sighed and said, "Mr. Wei, you really don't care. It's a black cat Liuli! When it's not at home, it's always close to Tengteng! Just now, the little guy has been wandering around the door of my room and Tengteng, which shows that it knows who is in the room. Moreover, I also heard the sound of a sunny doll bell from the window of the room."
"That sunny doll was made by Tengteng himself. She doesn't like rainy days. Every time it rains, Tengteng will have a headache. She just made a sunny doll hanging there. As long as the doll's bell rings, it proves that it's windy outside, and Tengteng will definitely not go out for a walk that day. But today, Mr. Butler, you see that there is no windy outside at all, so it's only possible that the girl is fiddling with it on the sunny doll. "
"Oh, no wonder I haven't seen you worry about mother-in-law now," Wei Xinrong suddenly realized, "So you have discovered where Tengteng is long ago. Why didn't you call her out when you were having barbecue just now?"
"Oh! Mr. Wei, you are so! You don't know Tengteng's personality. She was already frightened today! Mr. Ning was sitting outside the door of the room. Can I call her?"
"Okay, then you go and go back quickly, the tea will soon be cold in this weather."
After saying that, he asked his mother-in-law to run upstairs, and Liuli next to Ning Yu followed him. Wei Xinrong sat down and started to taste tea. The conversation between him and his mother-in-law seemed to have no flaws, and his behavior was very calm when he spoke. However, Ning Yu was always staring at the two people, frowned unknowingly.
Yun Yeyao and Xie Yunmeng observed quietly while sitting down with Wei Xinrong to pretend to taste tea.
Yun Yeyao asked tentatively: "I'll take the liberty to ask, what was the frightened person who was named Tengteng? Why did he hide in the room and dare not come out?"
Unexpectedly, the answer was not Mr. Butler, but Ning Yao who was walking towards the table.
Ning Yu said: "I scared her. This little girl is afraid of strangers. This is the first time I have come to this house today."
"Actually, Mr. Ning can't be blamed," the housekeeper said: "Tengteng's personality is too withdrawn. This is related to her living in this family since she was a child. In fact, the little girl will be scared when she sees any stranger."
"Oh, so that's the case. So do we need to avoid it after we get down?" Yun Yeyao asked.
Wei Xinrong quickly waved his hand and said, "No, no, when my mother-in-law and I are by my side, the girl's emotions will be relatively stable, it doesn't matter."
"That's good!" Yun Yeyao looked relieved. Xie Yunmeng kept drinking tea silently without interrupting. He didn't want to speak on such occasions.
Yun Yeyao's eyes turned to Ning Yu again and asked, "Mr. Ning, are you also lost in the forest?"
"No, I am a friend of the owner of this family. I happened to be here to visit today." Ning Yu replied, because he was shorter than Yun Yeyao, he sat down and drank tea. Yun Yeyao couldn't see his expression clearly.
After taking a sip of tea, Ning Yu raised his head and continued, "So you are lost? Have you seen the large vegetable garden behind the house before entering the house?"
This sentence is very abrupt. Wei Xinrong didn't understand what Ning Yu wanted to express, so he asked: "Mr. Ning must have never been to the back of Lekaon Villa. Why did he know that there is a vegetable garden there? Except for mother-in-law, there are not many people in this house to go to the vegetable garden. Moreover, you can only see the river from the balcony, and you can't see the scenery behind the house!"
"I once heard Xiaobu talk about it. He said that the vegetables grown by my mother-in-law are much better than those bought by the vegetable market, so I guess there must be a vegetable garden behind this house." Ning Yau explained.
"Is that Xiaobu the owner of this place?" Yun Yeyao interrupted.
Wei Xinrong turned his head and replied, "Yes, his name is Su Bu, but he is not at home at the moment."
Seeing that the topic deviated from what he had just asked, Ning Yu asked again: "Did you see that vegetable garden?" Maybe he wanted to know the vegetable garden that his lover had mentioned, so he insisted on asking this.
Yun Yeyao replied, "See." Then he suddenly stood up and squatted down to the puppy on the ground. At this time, the puppy was playing with the ball near the window. After Yun Yeyao squatted down, the upper body was blocked by the table, and Xie Yunmeng sat next to Wei Xinrong, so the tall criminal police blocked Yun Yeyao's raised side face behind him.
At this time, Yun Yeyao's expression completely changed, becoming serious and sharp. He said to Ning Yu: "Mr. Ning, there are many vegetables in that vegetable garden, especially the vegetables grown on the edge of the forest, which look particularly beautiful."
"Yes, is it?" Ning Yao was shocked by his inconsistent expression and tone, and paused for a second before answering the conversation.
Yun Yeyao smiled and said, "Is this puppy raised by the owner here? I like puppy the most. Mr. Ning, you must know him very well!"
Wei Xinrong looked over his body and said to the two people: "This puppy is indeed Xiaobu's pet, but it is as afraid of strangers as Tengteng. Be careful! Maybe it will bite people if it becomes impatient."
"It doesn't matter, you see, it's very well-behaved now, right?" Yun Yeyao's face changed rapidly, and when he saw the butler, he returned to his gentle appearance before.
Xie Yunmeng seemed to feel that it was inappropriate to just stop talking at this time, so after Mr. Butler sat down, the two of them started to chat in a mess, which completely diverted Wei Xinrong's attention.
Yun Yeyao took this opportunity to wink at Ning Yao, pointed his finger out the window, and signaled Ning Yao to find an excuse to go outside with him.
Yun Yeyao's idea was: If Ning Yu knew that Tengteng was abandoned near the vegetable garden and was not a suspect, then he would definitely do what he said. If Ning Yu didn't know about Tengteng's things and was not a suspect, then he would not understand his intentions and would not do as he did at all. If Ning Yu knew about Tengteng's things and was really a suspect, then he would definitely pretend to be stupid and go around with him.
Chapter completed!