nursery rhymes

Chapter 7 Doubt
The strange blue thread made Zhuge Yang suspect that there was something behind the death of his master.

Why would a master who was investigating the case overnight and analyzing clues run on a track more than 401 meters away from the scene of the [-] case?

The case is so urgent and anxious, it is impossible for the master to go out with the mentality of running for exercise.

So, did the master discover something?

Zhuge Yang put the thread into his trouser pocket and drove to the Holiday Inn.

At the toll booth at the basement exit, a thin security guard yawned and stuck his head out of the window.

Zhuge Yang looked up at the camera installed on the roof of the garage, took out his cell phone, and showed the screenshot to the security guard.

"At 4:7 am on April 02th, were you on duty at the guard box? Have you seen this person?"

The young security guard was young, he looked to be around eighteen or nineteen years old.Above the heavy dark circles, his eyes were narrowed into slits. "It's so dark, who can recognize it? Besides, I sleep on my stomach while on duty in the middle of the night, so it's impossible to see people. It's almost like seeing a ghost."

Knowing that Zhuge Yang was here to investigate the murder case, he asked with a smile: "The hotel is closed, so I am still working normally. Brother policeman, when will the case be solved? If the case cannot be solved, the hotel will go bankrupt. I I’m going to lose my job.”

Zhuge Yang said the next sentence: Children, don’t ask around.

Before leaving, the security guard gave him a suggestion, asking him to watch short videos. Maybe the online analysis experts could really provide some inspiration or clues to solve the case.

Zhuge Yang didn't take these words to heart, but he remembered what his master said: All clues may be the suspect's criminal motives.

So what about the nursery rhymes that were deliberately played at the scene, were the murderers trying to guide public opinion, or was there some other reason?What is the connection between the rumors about children on the Internet and two children's songs?Was it chosen randomly or deliberately?
He never paid attention to the content of nursery rhymes.Thinking about it now, the more the murderer tries to link them to the boy's disappearance, the more it proves that the murderer wants to cover up some useful information.

Rediscover the content of two nursery rhymes, search for the author and publisher, and see if you can find anything useful.

Zhuge Yang discovered that the nursery rhyme at the scene of the 401 case mentioned "five young men and a big tiger" reflected the fact that the victim's five fingers were chopped off.The nursery rhyme of Case 407, "The rain is pouring all over the ground," also fits the scene.So, did the murderer use children's songs to mislead?
Xiao Liang's investigation into children's shoes has also come to an end.Because children's shoes are so common, they are sold in physical stores and online stores.Even if the sales records of physical stores and online stores during this period are found, there is no way to target anyone.

In April, which is not the peak tourist season, Beidaihe has become chaotic due to the craze of visiting this place.

Zhuge Yang didn't know how many hairs he had lost, but he finally opened the short video in the dead of night.

He looked at the content analyzed by short video bloggers with thousands of fans, and also scanned the comment area below.The more he looked, the darker his face became.

Some bloggers still connected the murder case with the boy's disappearance case, and they said it succinctly, but from the perspective of the police, they found it ridiculous.

Some bloggers even speculated that the suspect had something wrong with him.Maybe he lost his child, so he wanted to kill a few people to bury him with him.In the comment section, people openly and implicitly said that the blogger should just @the parents of the missing boy.

Some bloggers said that the two victims were killed for love.

This is exactly what Zhuge Yang thought.

The two victims came to Beidaihe alone during the off-season. They were neither on business nor reporting to their families.This alone is a serious doubt.

But the comments on the Internet are not kind.

The comment section was full of people condemning the two deceased men for their bad conduct and that their deaths were self-inflicted.

Seeing all the victims being accused of guilt, Zhuge Yang put down his phone with a headache, and massaged his temples heavily to relieve it.

Maybe the murderer just killed people randomly?
The age gap between Feng Yaozhong and Fu Mingyang is so big that if they kill each other for love, the possibility is much smaller.

No suspicious contacts were found in the address books of the two victims, so was he wrong? What the master said was correct.

Is there something wrong with the suspect?

Thinking of this possibility, a piece of information discovered while investigating nursery rhymes flashed through Zhuge Yang's mind.These two nursery rhymes are among the required reading books for first grade extracurricular reading.

Impromptu killing or deliberate killing, the picking of nursery rhymes and children's shoes are too easy and natural.

What if the murderer had two children at home?One child happens to wear size 25 children's shoes, and one child is in first grade.I happened to have children's shoes at home and a collection of nursery rhymes that I could easily pick up.

The man walking strangely in the basement may be the parent of a first-year elementary school student.

With this guess, Zhuge Yang immediately took action and went to camp at the entrance of the nearest experimental primary school.

I went to the bathroom before going out. The two people in the squatting pit were chatting animatedly, but they didn't hear his footsteps.

"I saw Xiao Liang sneaking into the director's office yesterday. The position of captain must have been decided." It was Xiao Fang from the second team who spoke.

"Xiao Liang usually just relies on his mouth to coax the director. Based on his seniority, Brother Zhou is the one who takes the top position." The voice was a little thin, and it was Feng Yi from the second team. "Brother Zhou's business skills are not good. If I were the director, I wouldn't let him be the captain."

"Speaking of ability, Zhuge Yang was brought out by Captain Chen step by step. He..."

Zhuge Yang raised the faucet switch with a click, and the conversation inside suddenly stopped.

At the entrance of the Experimental Primary School, most of the children came to school carrying their own schoolbags, and only a few were brought by their parents on electric bicycles or cars.

Zhuge Yang leaned against the open glass door of the small shop, holding a spring pen and poking it in the palm of his hand.

After arriving here, he realized that his decision was a waste of time.

If the suspect lives close by, his children can come to school by themselves carrying schoolbags.Or maybe the suspect drove a car to drop off the child and never came out to show him his walking posture.

The master said before his death that the case must be solved within seven days. The master also said that he should focus his time on key matters.

Thinking this way, the action of poking the pen in the palm of my hand was also a pause.

Putting the spring pen into his trouser pocket, the back of his finger touched the soft thread.

He checked the tassels, and they were mostly ornaments that fell on ancient clothes, jade pendants, swords and Chinese knots.

This thing is not common, and he really can't figure out why the master has this thing in his hand.And what is the blue thread hanging on?

Everything is bothering him, and there are more and more doubts.

He raised his head and glanced at the few children at the school gate, and took out the car keys in his left trouser pocket.It was at this glance that he caught a glimpse of a woman behaving strangely outside the wall of the teaching building.

The woman was wearing a pink scarf around her head, and she was leaning against the wall with her ears bent, as if she was listening to the movement inside.

Zhuge Yang put the key back into his trouser pocket and crossed the zebra crossing.

As we get closer, we can see more clearly.

The woman was about thirty years old and was wearing a black jacket.There were mottled dust and oil stains on the clothes, and the sneakers were so dirty that their original appearance was no longer visible.

Zhuge Yang stepped forward and spoke as quietly as possible to avoid scaring the other person.

"Hello, are you the child's parent?"

The woman subconsciously closed the gauze scarf on her face and looked at him with only two eyes exposed.

When Zhuge Yang revealed his identity, the woman immediately frowned and stamped her feet, and loosened her grip on the gauze scarf.The words came out a little angry and irritable.

"I regret that my child is missing and I wish I could commit suicide by jumping into the sea. Yet you still keep asking me this and that. It's because I didn't take good care of my child. I should be cut into pieces." At the end of the sentence, I could only choke.

Only then did Zhuge Yang realize that the person in front of him was the mother of the boy named Jiang Jiang who disappeared in March.

These keyboard players on the Internet often attack this mother's heart.

On the way to send her home, Zhuge Yang learned that there were two children in her family.The missing ones are the youngest son and a daughter who is in first grade.

The two were walking side by side, and Zhuge Yang glanced sideways at each other. "First grade. Do they have nursery rhymes and children's songs in the extracurricular books they must read in first grade?"

The woman stopped and didn't look at him. "I know about the recent murder case, and I also heard two nursery rhymes. Hanhan used to sing, read stories, and read children's songs to Jiang Jiang. Ever since Jiang Jiang disappeared, Hanhan didn't even speak much. "

"The house suddenly became deserted, and I could only secretly hide outside the school and listen to the sound of reading. I don't know what Hanhan is like in school, and there is no news about Jiang Jiang until now."

The other party kept talking incoherently, and Zhuge Yang listened silently.

It only takes 15 minutes to walk from school to Jiang Jiang's house.

At the intersection of Brother's BBQ restaurant, Zhuge Yang saw a man in a black apron squatting on the ground in front of the B&B next to the barbecue restaurant.The left hand is holding a hen with a bent neck, and the right hand is holding a kitchen knife.The kitchen knife slashed hard, the hen struggled, and the blood on its neck spurted out.

"The one who killed the chicken was Jiang Jiang's father. The business of our homestay has been pretty good recently, and the tourists who made short videos have taken up all the rooms."

Zhuge Yang subconsciously tightened his fingers hanging by his side.

(End of this chapter)