There is no daylight here all year round, and the air is cold and damp. Although it is not as cold as the wind on the ground, the still freezing chill is more like the fear of silent erosion, which makes every pore in the body suddenly vigilant.
Shen Renjie clenched the gun tightly.
But the tide is still infiltrating from the palm of the hand.
He began to secretly regret it.
In the concession, there is a well-known rule that the salaries of foreign arrests and Chinese arrests are different. The status of the two sides is naturally quite different, and sometimes the treatment of Chinese arrests is even lower than that of Indian patrols.
When encountering difficult and difficult things, Hua Chau will go first, and when it comes to easy-to-remember errands, most of them are Yang Chau in front. Even if the prisoner is arrested, the other party may not dare to resist when they see Yang Chau. Although the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, which holds power in the concessions, has increased the number of Chinese directors in recent years, it has not helped the grassroots Chinese arrests much.
Just like Shen Renjie, although he has been in the arresting room for a few years, he is still an ordinary patrolman, and it is difficult to get promoted, unless there is someone behind him, or he is hugged to his thigh.
Yue Dingtang is the thigh in his eyes.
This person returned from overseas, with a wide network of contacts and great energy. Even a person like Smith who is usually above the top is polite to Yue Dingtang.
Shen Renjie also heard that Yue Ding Tang's family background is bigger, the two brothers have a good relationship with all parties, the political and business circles are all black and white, such thighs, after passing this village, there will be no such shop, so don't hug at this time. When
It was a rare opportunity to come out to investigate the case, and even if he was afraid, he would grit his teeth and keep an eye on it, but now, Shen Renjie was really feeling a little cold.
The kerosene lamp in his hand did not give him any courage, but instead gave birth to fear from the outside in.
He reached out and fumbled around in his pocket, then pulled out a flashlight.
There was a small sound behind him, very clear in the darkness.
Shen Renjie was so frightened that he almost didn't jump up. After half a second, he realized that the person behind him had turned on the flashlight, and he couldn't help but scolded himself.
With a few flashlights, the whole body is much brighter, and some fears are finally relieved.
The old housekeeper didn't have a light in his hand, so he just walked forward. He didn't stop and go like Shen Renjie and the others, and looked at the surrounding environment. He walked in front of himself and walked faster and faster. Grabbing an empty, actually lost the other party.
"Housekeeper! Old Bai!"
Shen Renjie shouted a few times, but got no response from the old housekeeper.
"Mr. Yue, what should I do? Did the old butler deliberately hide?"
No matter how hard Shen Renjie tried to calm down, he would inevitably get goosebumps all over the place.
Given the old age of the butler, he could hide where he could hide. What he was more afraid of was that he didn't know who was hiding in the dark and dragged the old butler away.
The enemy is dark and we are clear, and Shen Renjie doesn't even know whether the other party is a human or a ghost.
People and ghosts are not necessarily scary, what is scary is the constant guessing and imagining the unknown.
Yue Dingtang didn't say anything, which made Shen Renjie even more panicked.
He was afraid that the two behind him would suddenly disappear, so he hurriedly looked back from time to time.
"Mr. Yue, should I go and find him?"
"I looked for the entrance, it's obviously here, why is it missing..."
The old housekeeper's movement finally came from the other side.
There is a jar in the middle, and no one can be seen.
But Shen Renjie finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"take it easy."
Yue Dingtang's voice also sounded at the right time. He was bending over to look at the jars piled up in the cellar.
There are many such jars, piled up in every corner of the cellar and in the central clearing, one on top of the other, like a hill.
Where the flashlight shines, they can see that there is a winding path between the jars and the jars for people to walk. This is to facilitate picking up pickles. Otherwise, if they are piled together, it is inconvenient to distinguish the date and freshness. no.
Ling Shu snorted.
Shen Renjie's heart slammed upwards!
He is now a little bit of the meaning of the grass and trees.
The next moment he knew that he was a false alarm.
Because Ling Shu squatted in the corner and looked at the jar in front of him, no ghosts and ghosts appeared.
Due to the presence of Yue Ding and Tang Tang, Shen Renjie didn't dare to scold anyone, but he couldn't help but give Ling Shu a hard look at the back.
Ling Shu turned his head before he finished rolling his eyes.
Shen Renjie was startled again.
But he soon realized that Ling Shu couldn't see his expression at all because it was too dark here.
"Come and see." Ling Shu beckoned.
Shen Renjie walked over in doubt.
He also thought that he would see a terrifying picture, such as broken hands and feet, or bleeding from the jar.
However it didn't.
The jar Ling Shu let them look at was pressed at the bottom, and it was no different from other places.
"The traces around the jar, and the jar itself."
Before Shen Renjie could ask a question, Ling Shu took the initiative to give the answer.
"This jar is too clean. When I touch it, there is almost no dust, which is obviously different from the one next to it."
Ling Shu shook the jar on top of it with a flashlight: "There are still handprints on the jars above, which means that someone has moved them. Move the jars above them first."
Yue Dingtang said, "Old Shen, go and help."
Shen Renjie: …
He resigned and walked over, removing the jars one by one.
Ling Shu was able to take out the bottom one.
He punctured the paper on it.
"No seals."
If there is no sealant, it means that it is not filled with pickles.
And when they just came in, they found out that the pickles in this place are not heavy, it can even be said to be almost non-existent, only the smell of wet and cold dust.
This shows that, at least in the past few months, or even going forward, Alan may have stopped making pickles.
As for what she was doing in this cellar, whether she had already discovered the entrance to the secret vault was one of the purposes of their exploration.
Ling Shu picked up the jar and shook it.
Ding Ling Dang.
Lots of odds and ends shaking in there.
Shen Renjie's heart moved, and he secretly asked, could it be gold and silver treasures
Ling Shu directly knocked down the jar and smashed it to pieces, and the contents were scattered all over the floor.
When the flashlight lit up, Shen Renjie was stunned.
It's all about women's makeup.
Lipstick, vanishing cream, rouge, eye shadow.
There are domestic brands as well as imported products, but all of them are big brands that can be called good names.
Even the three big men could recognize Chanel and Dan Qi inside.
But here comes the problem.
Each of these cosmetics is very expensive. Alan may be able to buy one or two. There are at least dozens or hundreds of them here. They are all brand-new and most of them have not been opened. I can't afford it.
Where did she get the money
Or, who gave it to her
Is that Hong Xiaoguang
He used this method to deceive Alan's heart, and he stepped on two boats to pursue Du Yunning
Did Hong Xiaoguang know about the existence of the secret vault a long time ago, so he deliberately approached these two women, and the key in Du Yunning's hand might have been taken away by him long ago
In addition to cosmetics, there are several letters in the jar.
Ling Shu did not recognize that these were letters.
Because they are all folded up and rolled into cylinders and stuffed in small boxes.
After opening the box with the vanishing cream printed on the outer packaging, the letters fell down.
Ling Shu knew after only two lines, these were all love letters.
Basically, they are excerpts of love poems by foreign poets, and Shakespeare accounts for most of them.
To be precise, it was a love poem written by Hong Xiaoguang to Alan.
Because the handwriting on it is exactly the same as what they found in Hong Xiaoguang's temporary residence.
"Is that maid really illiterate?" Shen Renjie couldn't help but question.
"It should be." Ling Shu's slender fingers slid on the back of the envelope, "But you see, she recognizes her name, so she copied Hong Xiaoguang's handwriting on the back and wrote that blue character over and over again."
Shen Renjie clicked his tongue twice: "I only know that beauty is misleading. It turns out that it is not only women who treat men, but even men can use a handsome man to fascinate a woman like this!"
In the love poems on the letter paper, the paragraphs are not well connected. It can be seen that the person who copied the love poems has no knowledge and is just imitating it. Or maybe the other party didn't pay attention to Alan at all, thinking that she was not worth the effort.
But the illiterate Alan still treasured these letters and kept them in the "secret garden" that she thought no one could find. Come out and enjoy the silent reading again and again, and understand a little about the thoughts of the secret lover.
"what!"
On the other side, the old housekeeper screamed suddenly.
Panic and unprepared.
It stopped abruptly after a short sound, and it ended very suddenly.
Shen Renjie hesitated for half a second, but Yue Dingtang dashed ahead.
He had to hurry up.
The three followed the sound and ran to the place where the old butler made the sound just now, but saw that the old butler was already lying on the ground, his head seemed to have been hit hard by something, and the blood was flowing down his forehead.
Shen Renjie hurriedly flashed the flashlight around, but saw nothing.
"who!"
Ling Shu suddenly shouted, pulled out his gun and turned to chase.
Just now, when Shen Renjie's flashlight was shaking at will, he didn't even notice it himself, and just happened to take a picture of the shadow in the corner behind them.
But Ling Shu found out.
He only made a sound to attract the attention of the two companions. After all, in a hurry, the only option was to catch up.
Sombra reacted very quickly, and while running, he pushed the jar down, and smashed into pieces.
Ling Shu, who was chasing after him, couldn't dodge. He stepped on the debris and slid forward. If Yue Dingtang hadn't grabbed him from behind, he probably would have inserted the debris with his face on the ground.
"Don't let him run away!"
Ling Shu grimaced in pain, not because the soles of his shoes were too thin and pierced, but because he just landed on his knees and hit the debris just now, and he should be bleeding now.
"Mr. Yue, come and see!"
Shen Renjie shouted from the front.
When the two rushed over, they saw next to the broken jar, the masonry was pried up, revealing a dark entrance below.
Shen Renjie was standing there, hesitant to go down.
Yue Ding Tang was suspicious: "This is an underground vault? Didn't you say you need a key?"
Shen Renjie hurriedly said: "I just heard a movement below, there should be another door!"
When the two of them were talking, Ling Shu had already bent down and got in, and Yue Dingtang didn't even have time to pull it.
"Ling Shu!"
As soon as the former got down, he saw the shadow he had been chasing dodging behind the iron gate.
Ling Shu chased after him without hesitation!
He has a strong feeling that his footsteps are getting closer and closer to the truth.
Whether the murderer is Hong Xiaoguang, or someone else, maybe we will be able to find out tonight!