Magic City, ** District, Wen'an Road, Fuxing Community.
It was getting late and the air was cold. Cui Lizhu was holding her mobile phone, checking the information on her mobile phone and observing the house in front of her.
The house number says No. 19, which is the address given to him by the owner of the watch shop.
strangeness…
Cui Lizhu muttered, didn't she say that this villa had been burned down? how…
Indeed, the three-story villa in front of me was exquisite, elegant and unique, and it didn't look like it had been set on fire at all.
That's right...
Cui Lizhu thought to herself that after all, the fire occurred 30 years ago, and now that so many years have passed, the house must have been renovated. She wonders whether the people living in the house may be related to the case she wants to investigate.
Thinking of this, Cui Lizhu pressed the doorbell of the villa.
However, after waiting for a long time, there was no response.
She pressed the doorbell several times in succession. After pressing the doorbell, she heard no movement, so she wondered if the doorbell was broken.
So, she knocked on the door hard again, but after waiting for a long time, there was still no movement inside.
oh…
It seems that there is really no one in the house...
Cui Lizhu looked inside through the crack in the door and saw a variety of flowers planted in the courtyard of the villa. It looked full of life, and there must be someone living there.
The villa is built in a European style, giving it an exotic feel, but the window grilles on the windows and the red lanterns hanging on the porch show a strong local flavor.
well…
Cui Lizhu looked at her phone again and complained about why Zeng Ke hadn't found the information yet.
So far, she only knows that this Fuxing Community is a relatively famous community in Shanghai. Because the single-family villas here are all characteristic buildings left before liberation, they have been preserved as local protection projects and have not been planned. Demolition.
Since this place is located in the center of the magic city, it has always been a luxury house among luxury houses. The current price of each house is basically over 100 million. Those who can live here are naturally rich or expensive.
However, because the community was built too early, there are no underground parking facilities here. The owners’ cars can only go through the community and park in their own yards, or park on the street outside their own yards.
No, while Cui Lizhu was waiting for Zeng Ke's call, a brand new BMW X7 slowly stopped in front of Xiao Cui and parked at the door of another villa opposite No. 19.
Soon, a young couple got out of the car, with the wife holding a baby in her arms.
The husband took out two large bags of vegetables and food from the trunk, and the two opened the door and entered the villa opposite.
Yes!
A distant relative is not as good as a close neighbor, and a close neighbor is not as good as the opposite door.
Cui Lizhu hurried over and shouted to the couple: "Sorry to bother you, can I ask you a few questions?"
Upon hearing Cui Lizhu's call, the couple immediately stopped and looked back.
Cui Lizhu quickly showed her ID and said:
"I am a police officer and I am investigating a case. I hope... you can help us provide some information!"
"Us?" The man was stunned and slightly nervous, "What can we help you with?"
"Oh, don't be nervous," Cui Lizhu signaled quickly, then pointed to Villa No. 19 and said, "It's about the door opposite your house!"
"Opposite door?" The man glanced at his wife and muttered, "So it's the Japanese guy?"
"Ah?" Cui Lizhu was stunned, "Are you Japanese?"
"Well, yes!" At this time, the woman came closer with the child in her arms, nodded and said, "Officer, there is a Japanese guy right across from our house. What are you looking for him for?"
Cui Lizhu was a little confused. She quickly sorted out her thoughts and asked again: "How long have the Japanese lived here? What I want to ask is about the fire at the door opposite your house!"
"What? A fire?" The two of them looked at Villa No. 19, and the woman wondered, "Didn't you hear that his house was on fire? Is he okay?"
"No, what I'm talking about is..." Cui Lizhu said quickly, "It was the fire 30 years ago!"
"Wow..." the man was surprised, "I'm only 27 this year... What do you want to investigate?"
"Oh... right..." Who knows, the woman suddenly remembered something, "I heard my mother say that there was indeed a fire at the door opposite, and I still remember it!"
"Are you kidding me?" the man laughed, "Are you one year younger than me?"
"No, no," the woman said quickly, "Of course I have no memory of the fire, but when I was a child, I often went to play with my friends in the villa across the door...
"I can still remember that it was a charred ruin. We also made rumors that it was a haunted house or something..."
"No way?" The man was surprised again, "Are you brave...that big?"
"I forgot," the woman recalled, "Maybe I was brave when I was a child? It seems... It seems that the house opposite was renovated after I went to elementary school. At first, the house was rented out to many people, until 10 Years ago, a Japanese man bought the house... "
"Officer," the man asked Cui Lizhu, "you seem to have found the wrong person, right? What does the fire 30 years ago have to do with us?"
Only then did Cui Lizhu realize that this was the woman's home, and that the man might be her uncle or her husband's wife.
"We suspect that the fire is related to an important case we are currently involved in," Cui Lizhu ignored the man and said directly to the woman, "So, I hope you can provide some information about the fire that year!"
"Oh, no problem, no problem..." the woman said quickly, "Please come in! My parents should be able to help you. When I was a child, I heard them talk about the fire at the opposite door!"
"Oh... Then your parents..." Cui Lizhu was about to ask where the woman's parents were now. As a result, he saw the security door of the villa opened and an elderly woman walked out of it.
"Xiao Huang, is this Saning? (Who is this)?" The aunt spoke an authentic dialect of the Magic City.
"Mom, this is a police officer," the woman quickly introduced, "She wants to ask you about the fire on the opposite door!"
"Oh, I've been talking to you for a long time..." The aunt then spoke a lot of local dialects, which made Cui Lizhu confused.
"Come on, officer! Let's go into the house and talk..." Upon seeing this, the woman invited Cui Lizhu into the house.
After they put down their things and settled their children, the woman acted as a translator and asked the aunt who knew the details to tell the story of the fire.
"Yes," the aunt said, "30 years ago, when I gave birth to my eldest son, I was still in confinement! There was a fire just across the door, and the fire burned the couple and their son and daughter to death!
“The fire started in the middle of the night and burned very quickly,” the aunt recalled. “By the time we found out, there was no way we could rush in and save people!
"While we were waiting for the fire brigade to come over, the fire was almost done. No one in the family of four survived. It was really miserable..."
(End of chapter)