The old rattan lounge chair was more than one person long. If it was an ordinary woman, it would be difficult to move it with both hands. However, Lian Youyou carried it with one hand as if it were a small wooden stool, placed it under the eaves, and then lay down and started reading a book.
"Go ahead~~" Lian said lazily, only looking at the pages of the book in her hand, not at the handsome man on the beam.
Fu Mingrui walked forward a few steps and sat down again: "This case is very strange. The murderer is Bai Zhankui, and the victims are his parents. He carefully designed the locked room case and faked that the victims hanged themselves. There was no stool under the victims, and the murderer Bai Zhankui also committed suicide in prison out of fear of punishment."
Fu Mingrui didn't know how to continue. If he was talking about a case in the human world, he would be clear and organized. But today, he didn't know how to describe to Lian Youyou the unclear and confusing clouds in his heart.
Lian turned a page leisurely, "Isn't this case closed? Murder in a closed room has always been your strong point."
"But I always feel..." Fu Mingrui frowned, his heart full of doubts. The intuition was getting stronger and stronger. If he believed in this intuition, it would overturn all his previous judgments and completely disrupt a hand of cards that he had already sorted out and was about to get confused.
"What do you feel~~~" Lian Youyou said while reading a book.
Fu Mingrui calmed himself down and sorted out his thoughts for a while: "I always feel that there is an invisible murderer in this case!"
Lian Youyou's fingertips paused slightly as she turned the pages. She raised her eyes from between the pages, and her gaze jumped over the top of the pages to look at Fu Mingrui, whose eyes had become firm.
He held the file tightly in his hand. He had a photographic memory. He remembered every detail of any case he took on very clearly: "If Bai Zhankui wanted to fake the scene of suicide, why did he go to such lengths to take away the stool and put the blame on the ghost? Moreover, Bai Zhankui committed suicide in prison while half-lying down. In that position, it is impossible that he did not struggle."
"Committing suicide while lying down?" Lian Youyou showed some interest. She put down the book and looked at Fu Mingrui. "Like I am doing now?"
Fu Mingrui lowered his eyes and looked at Lian Youyou lying on the recliner. For some reason, his face slightly blushed and he quickly retracted his gaze: "Almost the same, a little higher than yours, hanging on the prison window. Oh, there is one more thing!" Fu Mingrui immediately looked at Lian Youyou seriously, "If Bai Zhankui is ruled out as the murderer now, then he becomes the deceased. He and his parents died in the same way, both hanged themselves, without struggling, and without scars on their bodies. The murderer used the same method to kill Bai Zhankui's family of three, which meets the characteristics of serial murder."
Fu Mingrui paused at this point, and did not dare to stare at Lian Youyou. It was not polite to look at a woman like that. He could only lower his eyes again and look at the file in his hand. However, when he stopped looking at Lian Youyou, his heartbeat inexplicably accelerated, making his chest slightly stuffy and his breathing difficult.
Lian Youyou raised her eyes and looked at him for a while, then retracted her gaze and picked up the book to read again: "So who do you think the invisible murderer is?"
"I... don't know." Fu Mingrui really didn't know. It was all just his intuition. He always felt that there was something strange about the whole case. This strangeness made him feel uneasy. Whenever he thought about it, goosebumps all over his body would appear.
"Ghost?" Lian Youyou said directly.
Fu Mingrui was startled and looked at her.
Lian Youyou raised the corner of her mouth behind the book: "It's not that you don't know, it's that you don't dare to say~~ So, which ghost do you think it is~~~"
After Lian Youyou said that word, the confusion in Fu Mingrui's heart and the discomfort in his body suddenly disappeared. Perhaps, just as Lian Youyou said, he knew, he always knew. It was just that he, who had always been an atheist, did not want to accept this answer, which made him feel uncomfortable and fidgety.
Fu Mingrui finally regained his composure and slowly began to speak again: "In the whole case, there is actually a fourth person. This person is Bai Zhankui's wife, Yu Pingting. The night Bai Zhankui committed suicide was the day he and Yu Pingting got married..."
Lian's eyes rested on the page in front of her. It seemed that there was another story hidden behind it...
Bai Zhankui and his wife Yu Pingting got married on July 28, Dingyou year.
After that, Yu Pingting gave birth to three children in three years, and even gave Bai Zhankui a pair of twin sons, which made others envious. Yu Pingting was the daughter of the dean of the academy, so she was naturally well-educated and well-mannered, so she stayed at home to take care of her husband and children.
Bai Zhankui is also diligent and studious. He passed the provincial examination last year and won the first place. If he can take part in the palace examination this year, he may be able to pass the imperial examination and have a bright future.
Others are independent at the age of thirty, but Bai Zhankui, who was only in his early twenties, had already achieved success in both family business and career, becoming a talented man praised and envied by people in Baijia Town.
Yu Pingting will also become the wife of a Jinshi, and soon the wife of an official, and will live a life of honor and glory.
However, what puzzled everyone was that in early March of this year, Yu Pingting suddenly committed suicide by jumping into the river with her children for unknown reasons. Since then, Yu Pingting has been scolded as a vicious woman by the people of Baijia Town. She died herself and took her children with her. She was the most vicious of all.
"Later, Yu Pingting's three-year-old daughter was rescued, but when Yu Pingting and her two one-year-old sons were found, they had already drowned. Not long after Yu Pingting's funeral, Bai Zhankui and his family moved out of Baijia Village and moved into the old Yu family house in the town. On the night of May 28, Bai Zhankui's mother, Chen Jinhua, hanged herself. On June 28..." Suddenly, Fu Mingrui paused, his eyes filled with surprise. How could he not have noticed it before? The days of death for this family were all 28th!
He only thought that July 28 was the day Bai Zhankui and Yu Pingting got married, because this date was particularly prominent. The entire case of Bai Zhankui dragged on for three months, and he did not realize that since Chen Jinhua hanged herself, his family had been closely linked to this 28th day.
When Bai Zhankui was first identified as the murderer, it was thought that Bai Zhankui had deliberately chosen the 28th. Some serial killers have the habit of choosing dates that have some special meaning to them.
It was not until now that Fu Mingrui figured out why Bai Zhankui chose the 28th, because this day was not chosen by Bai Zhankui at all, but by Yu Pingting!
Lian Youyou raised her eyes again and looked at Fu Mingrui who was suddenly stunned on the roof. She curled her lips and smiled, then lowered her eyes and continued to flip through the pages of the book leisurely: "The case is closed, why are you still thinking about it? Are you addicted to being scared?"
Fu Mingrui slowly came back to his senses, and immediately looked at Lian Youyou when he heard her words: "So you also think that this case was actually committed by Yu Pingting?!"
Lian Youyou looked calm and continued to flip through the pages of the book: "Who did it... is not important, you have already closed the case, why bother to make things more complicated?" Things in the human world, they are in the human world. Fu Mingrui has already closed the part of the human world, why should he meddle in the affairs of the ghost world? Besides, he has no right to manage the affairs there. (To be continued)