Reasoning? What did he mean? Did I not reason at all
From the way Yuan Hao spoke to me, I could tell that he did not lie to me on this issue. Although I didn't know what his so-called reasoning was, I could see that he did have a reasoning that was closer to the truth than Li Hua and I had. And this reasoning was related to the clue he pointed out to me in the morgue yesterday.
In addition, regarding the threats Yuan Hao just said to me, I also believe that he is definitely not just talking. Although I can't blow him apart or stretch him out now, if he really touches my bottom line, I will definitely make him live a life worse than death!
Anyway, after this matter is over, I plan to take Zhang Qishan back to my hometown. The first purpose is to let my parents meet Zhang Qishan, and the second is to find out who my father offended in the first place!
Now I am eager to know the answers to all the questions in my heart, but I also know that I cannot rely on anyone in this matter. I can only swallow what Yuan Hao said to me just now. Let our family solve the problem ourselves.
I lit another cigarette and finished it before going upstairs. Ding Yang's work upstairs seemed to have been finished, and they were all preparing to leave Fang Hong's house and return to the institute to continue their research. Perhaps because of Yuan Hao's matter, I really didn't want to face such a sinister villain, so I pretended to go out to investigate clues, and then left and returned home.
Zhang Qishan and Diandian were not at home. It seemed that she took Diandian out to play again. I was bored at home alone, so I turned on the computer and logged into League of Legends, which I hadn't played for a long time, planning to play for a while to change my mind. After playing for about three or four hours, my phone suddenly rang. I took it out and saw that it was an unfamiliar number from another place.
At first I thought it was a scam call, so I hung up. But the call came back again right after I hung up. When I answered the call, I found out that the person calling was Li Hua.
"Where are you? Do you have a minute? I want to discuss this case with you."
This is a bit rare. I didn't expect that the arrogant Li Hua would take the initiative to discuss the case with me. I immediately asked, "Why, aren't we making a bet? What are we discussing now?"
Li Hua seemed a little disappointed and replied, "This case is of a serious nature. No more deaths can appear. Besides, after this case is over, I still have to investigate Qiongqi's matter. Let's both win this bet. Tell us your respective clues and see if we can find the murderer."
In fact, I thought so too. After all, I had reached a bottleneck now. It would be great if someone could discuss it with me. So we agreed to meet in the community where Ma Ming died. When I got there, Li Hua was already waiting there.
Li Hua and I found a secluded pavilion and sat down. He treated me to some Nanjing Jiuwu. Although Li Hua was really annoying, he was a trustworthy person. So I briefly told him about my conversation with Yuan Hao today. After all, this was also an important clue in the case.
After listening to this, Li Hua pondered for a moment and said, "That is to say, this Yuan Hao not only has a grudge against your family, but he has also deduced many things. It is possible that he has already known the real murderer. Is that what you mean? But I have also looked at that watch many times, and there is no clue at all. What did he find? I don't believe that he can know who the real murderer is just based on such a watch?"
In fact, this is also the biggest doubt in my heart. I thought about it carefully and said, "Perhaps we have all got our respective positions wrong. In my opinion, there is only one explanation, that is, we regard everyone as our own people, but this Yuan Hao is simply an opposite person!"
Li Hua understood what I meant instantly, and suddenly realized: "Could it be that Yuan Hao is apparently providing you with clues, but in fact he is destroying the clues! In any case, he is the first one among us to come into contact with Ma Ming's body. Maybe there was a very crucial piece of evidence on Ma Ming's body at that time, and he also understood what was going on in this case through that evidence, but he did not say it out loud, but quietly hid the evidence?"
I nodded and said, "That's what I mean. He pretended to provide us with clues, but this sinister man actually hid the clues a long time ago and used them to mock me. I think now we must find the clues hidden by Yuan Hao so that we can connect the whole thing together."
Li Hua frowned and said, "You mean, we have to start from that watch?"
"That's right. Since Yuan Hao has obtained the key evidence and provided us with such an illusory evidence as the watch, I think the watch may not be a false clue. It's just that Yuan Hao thinks that we can't find the real murderer through this clue. So now both of us should empty our minds and temporarily forget all the clues we knew before. Let's start with the clue of the watch. The simpler you think, the better!"
Li Hua agreed with my suggestion and spoke first: "Then I'll go first. The watch is very valuable and there is nothing unusual about the hands on it. If you want me to explain what it means, Yuan Hao wants to say that Ma Ming is a rich man."
I continued, "If you think about it from the perspective of rich people, my understanding is that they live a luxurious life, eating, drinking, whoring and gambling every day."
Li Hua rolled his eyes at me and said, "That is to say, we have to analyze it from the living habits of Ma Ming, a rich man. The places that rich people go to are definitely high-end restaurants and high-end clubs. I have also asked Ma Ming's wife about some of the places that Ma Ming often goes to, and I have listed some of them. Next, do we have to start checking the places on these lists one by one?"
I don’t know why, but when Li Hua mentioned the words “high-end restaurant”, I suddenly remembered the strange place called Crescent Hotel that Zhang Qishan and I accidentally came across today, so I asked tentatively, “Is there a place called Crescent Hotel on the list?”
"Yes, I remember it very clearly. I also felt strange at the time. I checked the map on my phone. This Crescent Hotel is not a high-end place, but it is one of the places Ma Ming often goes to. How did you know this place?"
Facing Li Hua's question, I was secretly excited and turned around and said, "Then let's go to this place to look for it and abandon all previous clues. No matter if it's a baby or a case of eating and killing, I always feel that this time, we have found the right place!"
The weirdness of the Crescent Hotel is self-evident. When Li Hua and I arrived at the entrance of the Crescent Hotel, it was already past six in the afternoon. It was gradually getting dark and it was also dinner time, but there were not many people eating in the Crescent Hotel.
Li Hua frowned as he looked at the shabby Crescent Hotel and the luxury cars parked in front of the hotel. He turned to me and asked, "Don't you think this place is a little weird? How did you find it?"
"If it wasn't weird, I wouldn't have called you here. I discovered this place by accident. Let's go in and see what's going on here."
Li Hua and I immediately walked into the restaurant. This was the first time I actually walked in. I immediately looked around the restaurant in front of me and found that there were only two people eating in the hall, but there were several private rooms inside the restaurant. The doors of the private rooms were all closed. Through the cracks in the doors, I saw that the lights in two of the private rooms were on, so someone must be eating in the rooms.
When I was about to go inside the private room to take a look, the waiter who had been standing nearby and had ignored us since we came in immediately came up and said, "What are you doing? Sit outside when you eat. There are only VIP guests inside and you are not allowed to be disturbed."
I turned around and saw that the waiter was staring at me with a contemptuous expression, as if he thought I couldn't afford to eat there. I was immediately furious. Damn it, even if I'm poor, I can afford a meal, right
I was about to argue with the waiter, but I forgot that Li Hua beside me had an even more irritable temper than me. He grabbed the waiter by the collar and lifted him up. With his other hand, he took out a bank card and put it on the waiter's hair and said coldly, "Bring your menu here. I want the most expensive one."
Li Hua was tall and as a member of the special case team, he had a murderous aura in his bones, which immediately made the waiter wilted. Although the waiter was still unhappy, he couldn't offend the guests after all, so he took us to another private room and handed us the menu while muttering, "The most expensive dish, can you afford it?"
I was so angry that I wanted to smash the mouthful waiter to death with the chair behind me. I snatched the menu and looked at it carefully, wanting to see what the most expensive dish in this crappy restaurant was.
I took a rough look and found that the variety of dishes here was similar to that of other restaurants, and the prices were almost the same. The most expensive item on the entire menu was only about 100 yuan, and there was nothing special about it.
When I saw the menu, I immediately said angrily, "There are only a few pieces of shit, you think I can't afford it?"
Unexpectedly, the waiter sneered and said, "Of course there is nothing good on this side. Turn it over to the other side and have a look."
I turned the menu over in confusion, only to find that there was actually nothing on the other side. There was only one dish on the entire side, and it was in a dark corner. If you didn't look carefully, you probably wouldn't be able to find it at all.
But when I saw this dish, I couldn't help but gasp and almost threw the menu away!
Because I saw that the name of this dish was Purple Air Coming from the East, and the price was 50,000 yuan!