Eight Fresh Soup

Chapter 26 The Final Test (3)
"Impossible. When Dai Rou came up, she saw her in the corridor. If Rong Xi entered Du Xiaomei's room for the second time, she had to knock on the door, because Du Xiaomei almost went upstairs with Dai Rou. Rong Xi wanted to kill her." She should have been in her room when she arrived. Besides, there is a certain gap between Rongxi and Du Xiaomei in terms of physical strength. If they confront each other head-on, there will definitely be a fight, but the police found no trace of the fight at the scene, nor did they find anyone The sound of fighting has been heard, which means that the murderer was waiting in Du Xiaomei's room to take advantage of her unawares and strike suddenly."

"Besides, Rong Xi saw Du Xiaomei enter my room 10 minutes after taking a shower. If she hid in Du Xiaomei's room and waited to kill her, and Du Xiaomei didn't find her for a while, then she couldn't Knowing that Du Xiaomei entered my room, she can only know that Du Xiaomei has gone out for a while and then came back."

"Rong Xi might have sneaked into Du Xiaomei's room while Du Xiaomei was in your room." Zhao Yanshu's eyes lit up suddenly, and she came up with this sentence.

"In this way, she won't know that Du Xiaomei went to close the window after leaving my room. Since she has entered Du Xiaomei's room, of course she can't see what happened in the corridor, and she can't hide in Du Xiaomei's room. Peeking at Xiaomei's door, because it's too dangerous, if Du Xiaomei saw her when she opened the door, she would definitely yell, isn't she fully exposed? So, it can't be her." After Moran finished speaking, she quietly looked at Zhao Yanshu intently.

"Dai, Dai Rou, she, she may not have taken a shower at all, she, she may be hiding in the crack of the bathroom door, and when Du Xiaomei enters your room, go into Du Xiaomei's room." Zhao Yanshu proposed another idea.

Moran sighed.

"Obviously, you haven't used the bathroom on the second floor, Yan Shu. The bathroom on the second floor is at the corner, and you can't see the situation in the corridor from the crack in the door. Besides, after Du Xiaomei left my room, she went to the second floor first. Close the window next to the bathroom on the first floor, and then go downstairs."

"She, she probably waited for Du Xiaomei to go downstairs before entering her room..."

"Yan Shu, as I said just now, the corridor cannot be seen from the bathroom on the second floor. She doesn't know that Du Xiaomei has gone downstairs. The bathroom is not far from Du Xiaomei's room. Not even a shadow. How can she be sure that Du Xiaomei hasn't returned to her room?"

Zhao Yanshu was stunned for a while before she said discouragedly, "You really know how to guess."

"Let's talk about another thing. I remember, you once mentioned to me, you said, if you were Du Xiaomei, you would not take off your wedding ring even if you died. When did you see her take off the ring? "

Mo Lan saw a trace of fear flashing in Zhao Yanshu's eyes.Yes, she never realized it.

"Actually, that fake finger could only be put into the soup by Du Xiaomei herself, because she wanted to deter her rival in love. And all of us didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in her gourd before we came here, nor did we know Did she really make the soup, so there was no time to prepare any fake fingers. Besides, if one of us killed her, he wouldn't intentionally use his fingers to allude to Baxian soup, because that would be tantamount to implying the killing It has something to do with an affair. Who would be so stupid? Of course not. So it can only be put by Du Xiaomei herself, and it was put there before she died. She closed the window, went downstairs, put the ring on a fake finger and threw it in Tangli, then went back to her room, and never came out since then. Because no one saw her when she entered the room, and everyone saw her wearing a ring before that. So, she just It may have been taken off just before she died, and only the murderer knew she died without a ring."

"No, I, I saw her take off the ring..."

"When? If you didn't kill anyone, the last time you saw her was when she called Dai Rou to stop in the living room. At this time, everyone saw her wearing a ring. "

"I, I got up in the middle of the night, met her, and saw that she didn't wear a ring..."

"You lied, Rong Xi and Dai Rou didn't fall asleep that night. They both said that it was very quiet in the middle of the night, and they didn't hear the sound of opening and closing the door. Du Xiaomei never left her room, and neither did you. And you once said it yourself , you slept soundly all night."

Zhao Yanshu's lips trembled and she was speechless.

Moran continued.

"Let's talk about today's event again. You never cut off Du Xiaomei's finger, so when you saw Liao Yongli let us cook, you were not nervous. You thought everyone already knew that Du Xiaomei didn't have her finger cut off, because Fake fingers are easy to see through. You think the police should have told Liao Yongli long ago. But in fact, you are the only one who knows this besides me. The police deliberately reserved this and did not tell Liao Yongli, because although we The body was found, but her hand with the ring was inside and we didn't bother to check."

"Dai Rou and Rongxi didn't go upstairs to look at the corpse. When the corpse was moved downstairs, it was covered with a cloth, and they couldn't see it. They only saw fingers, so they always thought that the corpse was missing a finger. They thought they were asked to do it today. Cai was testing their cooking skills, so they all behaved poorly on purpose. In other cases, the murderer might be the one who acted in the experiment, but in this case, the murderer was the one who most truly reflected their strength. Because she thinks this is just an ordinary party, not a temptation."

"How do you know they're acting?"

"Dai Rou often cooks for her boyfriend at home. Rong Xi has always been an excellent cook and always cooks for her husband. This kind of skill will not be forgotten after four months of separation. Therefore, Today they are just acting, hoping that they will not be suspected of chopping off Xiaomei's finger. Only you, the most authentic display of your strength, because you don't care. You know you have never chopped off Du Xiaomei's finger."

Zhao Yanshu was speechless and her face was pale.

"When you heard today that the police were confirming which cosmetics in Du Xiaomei's room did not belong to her, you panicked. You thought the police were actually confirming who had been in Du Xiaomei's room, because it stands to reason that none of us Been to her room, so don't drop makeup on her. Although you don't usually wear lip balm when you kill, but you are not confident in this area, you are unorganized, always throw things around, and lip balm does It's gone, and it's not in the bathroom on the first floor, so you suspect that the lip balm fell in Du Xiaomei's room. You want to check it out, but my hand is bleeding, so you volunteered to go upstairs. If you just go to find Cotton or something doesn't matter, but we all set a trap, Yan Shu, Liao Yongli stared at you, before you entered the room, the lip balm was still there, and after you left, it was gone. You took it. Why? ?Because you think that is evidence that you have been to that room. You think the police found it in Du Xiaomei's room."

Zhao Yanshu turned her head and looked out the window, where a police car was already waiting.

"You have no evidence." After a while, she spit out this sentence in despair.

"No, I have. Half of your fingerprints are on the tie that strangled Du Xiaomei."

"It's impossible, I..."

"You want to say that you wrapped your hands with sanitary napkins, don't you? But sanitary napkins are not gloves after all. When you use force, the tips of your fingers will slip out. Besides, the police have found the four sanitary napkins. The towel, there should be a lot of your fingerprints on it, the current criminal investigation technology is very advanced. In addition, when you took your tie, half of your fingerprints were left in the cabinet, sanitary napkins are not safe, Yan Shu."

"But, but, maybe, I just blocked the toilet with a sanitary napkin and played tricks on Du Xiaomei?" Zhao Yanshu was still unwilling.

"Yan Shu, as I said just now, they are entangled with the murder weapon—the tie. Have you forgotten that there is sticky substance on the sanitary napkins? I don't know how sticky they are, anyway, they are entangled. Together, it is because they are entangled that they become a big ball."

Moran watched Zhao Yanshu calmly, the despair on his face told her clearly that she guessed everything right, but she couldn't be happy at all.

"Why, why did you do this? You were the first to arrive that day, what did Du Xiaomei tell you?"

Zhao Yanshu stared blankly out of the window.

"She said that she knew that Liao Yongli often went to a hotel, and she had already started an investigation, and she was going to ruin him." Zhao Yanshu said exhaustedly, "I'm afraid, I don't want to lose my marriage."

"Do you love your husband?" Moran asked.

Zhao Yanshu shook her head, tears rolling down her face: "I don't love him, but he treats me very well. I don't want to lose my marriage, and I don't want to lose his face. He is a person who saves face. If he knows about me, he will definitely divorced me."

"If you don't love him, you should leave him, instead of having an affair first, and then killing the wife of the affair partner. Yanshu, what's wrong with you?" Moran felt really sad, she still can't believe that the kindest person The honest and gentle Yan Shu will solve the problem by killing people.

"Yongli doesn't love me, so I can only turn back and rely on marriage. But Du Xiaomei wants to destroy it, my last retreat, she wants to ruin my reputation, I can't let her do that." She said quietly.

"But you..."

"I know what I did wrong, Mo Lan, and I don't want to do this either." Zhao Yanshu burst into tears, "I really wanted to die that time, I knew I couldn't escape after all. You know why I left Du Xiaomei under the bed ?"

"Why?" Moran asked in a low voice.

"I was scared, I didn't want to see her. I knew I did something wrong. I knew it was wrong to kill, Moran. I also knew it was wrong to be with Yong Li, but I did it anyway, and I thought he Love me, I was so sad when I heard Du Xiaomei say that she was pregnant..." Zhao Yanshu shed tears as she spoke.

Moran's eye circles were also red.

"Do you know that Du Xiaomei is not pregnant, she lied to us." Moran said sadly.

Looking at her, Zhao Yanshu suddenly "giggled" and couldn't stop laughing, but to Mo Lan's ears, that laughter was more miserable and more desperate than any crying sound she had ever heard.

"It's really good news, it's really good news, but what does it have to do with me? He doesn't love me. I don't want to love him either. It was all over, and I wanted to, but Du Xiaomei cut off my escape path , I have no way out! I was forced! Moran, I don't want to do this, I'm scared, I'm so scared..." Zhao Yanshu said intermittently, lying on the table and sobbing.

Moran's tears also fell, she hesitated for a while, and finally reached out her hand and placed it gently on her shoulder.

(End of this chapter)