Sun Mingtang stretched out his hand and was about to uncover the lid. Suddenly, his gaze fell on the handle of the lid, and there was a thick dust on it, but a new handprint was on his eyes! His eyes moved to the ground again. The ground was not dusty because of the ventilation, but he still saw a set of footprints.
Sun Mingtang leaned down and measured his footprints with his fingers, his expression heavy.
[Hu Yong] also squatted down, wondering: "Could it be that the poor neighbors came here to steal things? You are so brave, you dare to use dead people's things!"
Sun Mingtang shook his head and said, "This man is wearing high heels! Look, the heels are very small! A woman wearing high heels should not have a low status, how could she steal something from a poor man? Unless..." He narrowed his eyes.
[Hu Yong] Suddenly patted his thigh: "Ah, I remembered that when we were collecting evidence, someone in the neighbor said that on the day of the murder, a noble woman passed by on Pier 18 on a horse!"
Sun Mingtang's complexion changed: "I should have thought long ago, how could a local fisherman embroider a peach blossom on the belly of the deceased?"
[Hu Yong] Grown up his mouth: "Deputy Chief, you mean, she..."
"I'm just a temporary guess! Let's go and visit the neighbor you interviewed!" Sun Mingtang groaned.
[Hu Yong] led Sun Mingtang past a boat house and walked to a boat house facing the Huangpu River. At that time, the workers who unloaded the cargo at the Bund Terminal had not yet got off work, and there was only a woman in a tattered shirt holding a four or five-year-old boy on the ship. When the woman saw two men in police uniforms, her eyes were full of horror. The little boy was dressed dirty, and his toes came out of the rotten cloth shoes. He was young, and they were not afraid to see Sun Mingtang, only a pair of bright and big eyes flashed, looking very cute.
[Hu Yong] said with a smile: "Sister-in-law, don't be afraid, we are passing by and want to ask you something."
The woman was so busy: "You ask... You ask..."
[Hu Yong] pointed his finger at the boat house nearby: "Has anyone been to that boat recently?"
The woman's face changed suddenly, and she suddenly knelt down with a "plop": "Ah, we know it was wrong, we shouldn't steal things, kid... The kid is so cold, we stole a bedding...
Sun Mingtang noticed that she was wearing a pair of ordinary cloth shoes with no embroideries on them, and one shoe still had a patch on it. He hurriedly stepped forward and helped her up: "Big girl, get up! We are not here to inquire, think about it. Besides you, has anyone been to that ship recently?"
The little boy seemed to have thought of something, his body shrank, and he looked terrified. There were teardrops in the woman's eyes, and her voice trembled: "No one has been there, only ghosts..."
"Ghost?" Both Sun Mingtang and [Hu Yong] were surprised.
"That boat is haunted!" The woman screamed, "Just the day before yesterday, we heard a sound of slapped bedboards inside. At first my mouth thought it was the river beating the pier. Later... there was a woman in the boat. I scolded something, I don’t understand... The ghost is not in the middle of winter, the children are so scared to cry!"
Sun Mingtang spliced all kinds of clues together, and his heart was slightly bright. Could it be that the "noble" woman is back again
The woman said again: "The female ghost has been making trouble several times in the past six months, and it has tossed us... Alas, we don't blame her, we all blame the murderer who suffered a thousand swords!"
Before leaving, Sun Mingtang said to the woman: "If you see someone going to the ghost ship, remember to go to the police station to find us! I have a reward!" He threw a business card on the table.
From the woman's boat house, Sun Mingtang quickly walked towards the boat house where the murder happened. [Hu Yong] also felt something, and said: "Deputy Chief, why did that suspicious person come back? Why did you shoot the bedboard? Could it be that he was looking for something?"
Sun Mingtang nodded and said: "It's very possible!" He walked to the wooden bed and reached out to shake it. The wooden bed "creaked", but none of the bugs crawled out and the cobweb broke. Obviously the wooden bed was torn down. Down. The two moved the wooden bed, but found nothing. They continued to search on the upstairs ship until the sky was dim, then they took off the dust and drove back.