Zhu Ansheng smiled:

"The floor of the study is very clean. However, the floor at the edge of the wall has color difference, and the color of the tiles is relatively darker. The part of these color difference happens to be a rectangle."

"In other words, there should be a carpet in the study?"

"It's tatami." Zhu Ansheng corrected.

Xia Liang was stunned: "How do you know?"

"Because I found it." Zhu Ansheng laughed:

"There is a garbage recycling station next to Fu'an Community, which usually takes two weeks to clean. The area of ​​tatami is quite large, and I'm lucky, so I found one without much effort."

"How do you know for sure that it is from Fang Qing's family? Maybe it's the ones abandoned by someone else's family." Xia Liang retorted.

"Because I found traces of being scalded by coal on that tatami." Zhu Ansheng slammed his pipe and said with a smile:

"The temperature in Guangzhou is only seventeen or eighteen degrees during this period. No one can burn charcoal at home to keep warm, right?"

Xia Liang was silent for a moment.

"Besides, I found the most critical evidence."

Zhu Ansheng reached out and rubbed his fingers.

"I touched the door frame part in the study. There were traces of tape that had not been removed from it, and my hands were sticky."

Xia Liang sighed.

"I think it's reasonable for you to say this... After all, Fu Sizhe was not stunned by chloroform, but took a lot of sleeping pills. If this was a preparation for suicide by burning charcoal, everything would make sense..."

"When you see through this little trick, everything else will be integrated."

Zhu Ansheng sighed deeply and said:

"Fu Sizhe broke himself, and his body was stored in the bathtub, waiting for the arrival of the evening. When the owner of the aquatic shop was stunned, he took Fu Sizhe's body to the cold storage, and then directed and acted in a double secret room. This is the game he set up."

"The reason why he did not destroy Fu Sizhe's teeth and left a dental record was to allow the police to determine the identity of the deceased faster. He didn't have much time because he had to let the police announce Fu Sizhe's death as soon as possible. In this way, the earlier Fu Sizhe's three insurance payments can be obtained."

"There is no way to crack this game... because when you participate in this game, you have already lost."

"When you receive a report and rush to the cold storage to find the deceased, due to the existence of the double secret room, you will immediately classify the case as a homicide case and start investigating the identity of the murderer."

"You tried every means to force two suspects in the secret room to investigate Fu Sizhe's interpersonal relationships, financial situation, family... just to find out the murderer who killed him. At first you thought the suspects were security guards Liu Zhongwei and Zhang Jianhong, but later you realized that they were just innocent people who were brought to take the blame; then you will start investigating Fang Qing and investigating her absenteeism... I thought that as long as the absenteeism was falsified, you could get more clues..."

"The alibi she provided looks shaky and can be shattered at any time. But that's not the case."

"They were wearing inconspicuous clothes and Fu Yinger wore a mask. They only went to some places where the traffic was extremely high and the surveillance video could not be captured, leaving ambiguous transaction records and movie notes. This was a huge smoke bomb. No matter how much energy you spent, you would not find any clues. Because on Saturday afternoon, Fang Qing and Fu Yinger did go to Tianhe City Plaza."

Zhu Ansheng turned his head and glanced at Xia Liang deeply.

"Because Fu Sizhe died on Saturday morning, the absence on Saturday afternoon proved that it was irrelevant at all."

Xia Liang pursed his lips and asked again:

"How did you make sure he died Saturday morning?"

"Because of the screams." Zhu Ansheng shrugged, and Xia Liang looked at him in confusion.

He explained with a smile:

"I went to Fang Qing's neighbor Chen Dong's house to know if I heard any strange sounds across the door all day on Saturday. He told me that at noon, I heard Fang Qing's screams."

Xia Liang opened his mouth slightly. He remembered that he had heard Zhao Gang say this message on the phone, but because Zhao Gang said it was because there were cockroaches at Fang Qing's house, and it was in the morning, so he didn't care much. He murmured:

"So that... Fang Qing probably discovered that Fu Sizhe had committed suicide at noon... Then, Shi Zuo helped her cover up the matter and turned suicide into a homicide?"

"It should be that."

Zhu Ansheng sat up, and when his mind flashed through his mind, Zuo Cai made a pistol posture at himself, and shook his head with a wry smile:

"From the beginning, he had already arranged the entire plan... and also included the ending part of the crime. Now, it seems that this plan is indeed linked and can be called a perfect criminal art. However, there is no murderer in this case from beginning to end. We once thought that Zhang Jianhong and Liu Zhongwei were innocent scapegoats, but later we discovered that the real scapegoat was actually Shi Zuocai himself."

"And all this is based on the small trick of time at the beginning. When a case becomes more and more perfectly murdered and more suspects are more and more, it is difficult for people to break through inertial thinking and find that this is not actually a murder case."

"There are many amazing calculations in the entire layout. From the moment Fu Sizhe's body was discovered, he completely removed Fang Qing and his daughter from this case. The reason why you can't ask any useful clues from Fang Qing was because Fang Qing didn't know what Shi Zuo Cai was going to do and what he did. She should have just followed Shi Zuo Cai's words, and took her daughter to Tianhe on Saturday afternoon, leaving behind a certificate of absence, and then did a major cleaning the next day."

Xia Liang suddenly remembered the shock and horror on Fang Qing's face when she saw Fu Sizhe's body being destroyed. It was precisely because of this expression that he felt from the bottom of his heart that Fang Qing had nothing to do with this matter. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

"I seemed to be plotted from beginning to end."

Zhu Ansheng glanced at him deeply, took a sip of cigarettes, and said slowly:

"It's true...including the part that he surrendered himself in the end."

Xia Liang was stunned: "What does this mean?"

Zhu Ansheng sighed and said:

"The day before he surrendered, I had contact with him. When I recalled it later, I realized that he had also made me a move. He deliberately reported your license plate number wrong, but I didn't realize it - just because of this small mistake, he decided that I should be here with the police."

Zhu Ansheng turned his head:

"Liang, you went to school that Sunday, right?"

Xia Liang was silent and nodded.

Zhu Ansheng shook his head and said with a wry smile:

"I am just a private detective, and no action can be used as direct evidence from the police. But you are different... Your investigation in school has become the strongest evidence for him to bear the crime."

Xia Liang opened his eyes wide and had nothing to say.

After a silence, Xia Liang murmured:

"Brother-in-law, these things... you had already investigated before he surrendered, right? Why didn't you tell Team Xing... to us?"

"Is it use to tell you?"

Zhu Ansheng suddenly asked back. Xia Liang looked at him in surprise.

He just shook his head and sighed.

"I have said that from the moment we entered the game, we were already losers."

"Even if you tell Lao Xing the truth now and reverse the whole case, what will happen? You should know better than me about the family situation of the mother and daughter. They are in short supply. Without that insurance, they can't live anymore. You should also know Zuo Cai's ability at that time. The police team knew the truth and would only help him clear his suspicion and restore his life to ordinary people, but now... at least it can also put him in a key observation environment to prevent him from doing more terrible things."

Xia Liang pursed his lips tightly, feeling complicated. He never thought that the whole case would develop into what he is now - there was no murderer, no "bad man". Behind the cruelly destroyed corpse, there was actually the idea of ​​saving people... Everything seemed absurd and shocking.

He clenched his fists and slowly let go. There was a little more confusion in his eyes.

"Is this all... really just to cheat insurance?"

Zhu Ansheng picked up a pinch of tobacco, filled it into his pipe, lit it with a match, took a deep sip, raised his head and sighed, the smoke lingering in the room.

"If this is the case, this story is not worthy of being called cruel or affectionate."

Xia Liang frowned: "What does this mean?"

Zhu Ansheng turned his head and looked at him deeply and said word by word:

“From the moment we entered the game, we were already losers.”

"We are, so are Shi Zuocai."

...

"Aria on G Strings" is still lingering around the campus and has entered the second half.

Shi Zuo frowned slightly.

"Yinger said that she thought about some things for a long time and decided to tell us at the same time. You have to listen carefully."

Liu Yan looked at him and smiled.

Shi Zuocai glanced at her, then moved his gaze and looked at Fu Yinger.

There was still lingering sadness on her face, but the gloom in the depths of her eyebrows seemed to have been swept away. It was like the blue sky with rain passing by the clear sky, a touch of heart-warming redness passed.

She pursed her lips, gently twisted her fingers, and said:

"Thank you... Thank you Xiaoyan, too."

She paused and continued:

"In fact... I've been not very happy some time ago. Although it's because of family relationships,... it's not entirely because of family affairs..."

She looked up at the two people beside her, took a breath quietly, and another rosy slight flashed across her face.

"actually……"

"I have a half-sister who lives in New York... I only found out about it a few years ago..."

"We have always had a good relationship, but she seemed to have encountered a lot of trouble some time ago... she didn't want to tell me... However, it seems that it has been resolved recently, and I'm really happy..."

Liu Yanshi's smile froze on her face.

"Aria on G String" ended after the last note.
Chapter completed!