After Lv Hongyan left, we were in no mood to open the shop anymore, so we closed the shop and went home. We stayed up until dawn to eat ghost teeth, and then I curled up on the sofa and slept until noon. After waking up, I asked Shen Bing to go out and buy a few roast chickens and a few bottles of Lao Bai Fen, and put them in the shop first. We promised, and we can't keep refusing to pay.
After lunch, I sat cross-legged on Shen Bing's bed. Damn, it was actually my buddy's bed, but she occupied it. I kept looking at the high-heeled shoe. The shoe was very new, and the heel was very thin, more than eight centimeters. There was a trademark on the bottom of the shoe, but as a man, I didn't know much about women's shoes. Only a pervert with a fetish would know everything about women's things.
I called Shen Bing over and asked her to look at the trademark inside the shoes. She shook her head and said she had never seen it. It looked finely made, but not a big brand. Although the upper was bitten, it looked beautiful overall. So from this, I concluded that it was a shoe worn by a young woman, because older women would not wear shoes with too high heels or a younger style. This at least allowed me to rule out the possibility that Zhu Zhongqi's wife committed the crime.
When I said this, Shen Bing glared at me and said, "I've been kicked in the head by a donkey. Even a tiger won't eat its own cubs, so how can there be a vicious mother who would be so cruel as to kill her daughter?" I object to this theory. There are too many mentally abnormal people in today's society, and it's not uncommon for people to kill their own children.
Shen Bing was so angry that she slapped me on the head: "I think you are mentally abnormal, I will not have children with you in the future."
I touched my head and laughed, "How can I do this? If you don't have a child, people will say there is something wrong with you and you can't have one."
"Tsk, why don't you say you have a problem and are a eunuch?"
"The key is that you know I'm not a eunuch. We have exchanged bodies..."
When she said this, Shen Bing's pretty face suddenly turned red. She quickly slipped off the bed and said, "Pervert, we are still a long way from getting married, so why talk about having children?"
Girl, you were the one who started it, not me.
After we studied the high heels for a while, we went out and took the bus to the county town. I wanted to meet Tan Guifen in person to confirm whether what Lv Hongyan said was true. Shen Bing used her connections in the police station to find the director of the detention center and told him her intention. But the director refused, saying that the director personally ordered that no one, including her family, was allowed to meet with this felon who cruelly killed a child.
I thought the law didn't have this provision. Shen Bing was a little anxious and said to the director, "I used to be a police officer. I've never heard that serious criminals can't see anyone. Can't they even see a lawyer?"
"You're not a lawyer." After saying this, the director turned around and left.
Shen Bing bit her lip in anger and said, "Let's hire a lawyer for Tan Guifen."
We went to a law firm and hired a lawyer. Then we went to the detention center, and the director was no longer so tough. He immediately called the director for instructions and brought the prisoner to a separate room for a meeting. Tan Guifen was a girl in her early twenties, with a pretty appearance, but she looked very haggard and extremely weak.
When she saw us, she was stunned because she didn't know us. How could we meet her for no reason
I whispered, "Lv Hongyan asked us to help you clarify the truth."
A trace of fear flashed across Tan Guifen's eyes, and she immediately grabbed my hand and cried, "Brother, please help me get justice, I didn't kill Xiaolu... Woo woo..."
The lawyer we hired was named Guan. He comforted her and told her not to be afraid. As long as she really didn't kill the person, he would collect all the evidence and defend her in court. Because the meeting time was only half an hour, Guan asked Tan Guifen to hurry up and tell him everything that happened in detail.
What Tan Guifen said was almost word for word the same as what Lv Hongyan said. It seemed that she was indeed wronged. I asked her if she usually wore high heels. She shook her head and said that as a nanny, she was not suitable for wearing high heels at all. It was very inconvenient to work. I nodded, and the only doubt I had about her was gone.
Lawyer Guan asked her how Zhu Zhongqi and his wife were usually and how they treated her. Tan Guifen recalled that both of them had bad tempers, but they were quite nice to her. She worked in the Zhu family for more than a year and took good care of Xiaolu. The couple kept giving her more money and bought her a lot of clothes. After the accident, the couple suddenly changed their attitude and put all the blame on her for the child's death. Tan Guifen cried and said that she could understand that Zhu Zhongqi and his wife took out their anger on her because they lost their daughter.
When asked about the dodging figure, Tan Guifen stopped crying and shook her head. She saw Xiaolu enter the water as soon as she went out. The figure ran so fast that she couldn't even tell whether it was a man or a woman. Besides, she was very panicked at the time. Even if the person didn't run away, she wouldn't have had time to check.
Finally, Lawyer Guan asked Tan Guifen to point out the scars from being beaten. Sure enough, there was a purple-black bruise on the back of her carotid artery. Anyone with a discerning eye could see that it was caused by being hit by a heavy object.
After I came out of prison, I handed the high-heeled shoe to Lawyer Guan and said, "This is a shoe I found in the swimming pool. I suspect it was a woman who committed the crime. Before Xiao Lu died, she bit her shoe and fell into the pool." Although this is not true, the shoe was indeed bitten by Xiao Lu. Even if it was bitten by a ghost, the forensic identification could still find Xiao Lu's teeth marks.
"This piece of evidence is very important. I'll keep it for now. We'll get in touch after we negotiate with the police." Lawyer Guan said goodbye to us and went back to the office.
I looked at my watch and it was past four in the afternoon. I couldn't do anything during the day, and I had to wait for news from the dead rat about the corpse grave. I estimated that there would be no results until the evening, because when the dead rat returned, he looked very sad, and it seemed that he knew that the mirror gods couldn't come up with any good ideas for a while.
I had nothing to do when I got home, so I told Shen Bing that Lu Fei received a large sum of money yesterday and asked him to treat me to dinner tonight. Who knew that when I called Lu Fei, he was at the funeral home and said that Zhu Zhongqi had invited him again because Zhu Zhongqi's wife was killed by a ghost. Although the body had been cremated, the ashes in the urn gave off a strong stench, and the whole funeral home was stinking. The guy used several talismans but they didn't work. It happened that I called, so he asked me to rush over to help.
Damn, I was drafted into the army. But thinking that Zhu Zhongqi's wife was an innocent victim, I couldn't refuse this favor. So I took a taxi to the funeral home, which was in a desolate place a few kilometers outside the county town. It was a little smaller than the provincial capital, in the same compound as the crematorium, and the cremation workshop was at the back.
Since Zhu Zhongqi didn't dare to hold the funeral at home, he moved his wife's mourning tent to the funeral home. Originally, this procedure was wrong. The body should be cremated before the body was cremated. Now it was cremated first and then the body was kept. There were several men and women in mourning clothes guarding the body on both sides. I guess they were descendants of Zhu Zhongqi's family. Lu Fei and his anxious face took me to the mourning table. I smelled a strong stench before entering the door. Now that I walked up to it, it was simply a blow to my nose.
Shen Bing covered her mouth and nose and retreated to the door, but I couldn't leave. I held my breath and took a look at the lid of the urn. The ashes turned into a black slurry, which looked very strange. Some of you may not have seen what ashes look like. Normally, they should be black, gray and white. It's against common sense for them to turn into pure black and look like black cement mixed with water.