Considering Zhang Xiaochuan's flirtatious attitude when he first flirted with Xiaolei and her resentful eyes, I couldn't help but be suspicious. To say that this little girl looks OK, her personality is not docile, she is a bit rebellious, and there is a hint of a little gangster.
So I walked back to Zhang Xiaochuan, squatted down and hooked my fingers with him: "Give me a cigarette."
Zhang Xiaochuan said "Oh" and threw the whole box of cigarettes and the lighter to me. I lit one and returned the cigarette to him. Since I am not a real smoker and haven't smoked for a few days, I almost choked after taking a puff.
"Do you know that An Daiyun was killed?" I asked Zhang Xiaochuan.
He was stunned at first, his eyes rolled around, then he smiled and shook his head and said, "I'm not a detective, how could I know."
"I'll give you a clue. The murderer is a woman." After I said that, I stared at the boy's expression.
He opened his mouth and eyes widened, and suddenly glanced in Xiaolei's direction. But he immediately retracted his gaze and shook his head and said, "Women are even more unpredictable."
This guy obviously knows what's going on, but he pretends not to know. He must be covering up something, and it must be related to Xiaolei, which further confirms his speculation that he and Xiaolei have known each other for a long time.
I nodded and walked up to Xiaolei. She quickly turned her eyes away from Zhang Xiaochuan, looking evasive. I saw it and was sure that this little girl was hiding something. Shen Bing and Qu Mo followed and looked at me with strange eyes.
"Xiaolei, what were you doing on the morning your mother hanged herself?" I looked at him and took a puff of cigarette.
When they heard me ask this, Pang Furong and Zhang Xiaochuan stood up from the ground and slowly walked over.
Xiaolei's face suddenly showed panic, and she blinked and said, "I'm at home. My mother and I haven't gone out yet."
"Did you accompany your mother to Guankou Town?"
"No! No!" She seemed to be afraid that the simple "no" was not enough to prove her point, so she added another sentence to reinforce it. This was clearly a sign of guilt.
"You are lying. You went to Guankou Town with your mother, and your mother went to An Daiyun's house. You were keeping watch outside, right?" I asked in a low voice with a gloomy face.
Everyone's face was moved, especially Pang Furong, who looked at his daughter in surprise.
"No, my mother has never been to Guankou Town..."
I immediately interrupted her and said aggressively, "After your mother killed someone, you ran all the way home. Your mother was upset at home and finally sent you away to hang herself, right?"
"No, the murderer is not my mother..."
"The fact is your mother killed someone!" I interrupted her again, not giving her a chance to breathe.
"It's not her, it's me..." When she said this, her face changed drastically and she stopped talking quickly, staring at me in shock with her eyes wide open.
In a hurry, she let the cat out of the bag to clear her mother of suspicion. This result was beyond everyone's expectations, even me.
"It's you..." Pang Furong and Zhang Xiaochuan exclaimed at the same time.
“No… It’s not me, it’s not me…” Xiaolei glared at me fiercely, then hurriedly got up and ran towards the valley entrance.
Pang Furong was stunned for a moment, he could not imagine that the one who killed An Daiyun was actually his daughter. Although the result was unexpected, it was definitely consistent with the footprints left by the murderer at the scene, the murderer was a woman. And Pang Furong's calculation was not wrong, the murderer was in Qiaonan Village, but it was not his wife, but his daughter!