Mystery

Chapter 96 A Lost Photo

Seeing things and thinking about people is a ghost!

I'm afraid Bao Quan'an missed Qi Huan's father's pocket money more than Bao Lanlan.

When the three of them entered the house, Bao Quan'an immediately ran to the storage room. After the glass of ice soda in front of Shen Ke had run out, he dug out a small brown suitcase full of logos.

One corner of the box was crushed, covered with dust, and traces of just being wiped could still be seen.

Shen Ke glanced at the box, and then looked at an upright piano against the wall in the room. There was a photo on the piano. Bao Quanan was hugging a little boy, and a young and beautiful woman was sitting beside him. There are no photographs of Paulan in the house.

Bao Quanan put the small suitcase on the ground with some embarrassment, "It's all here, it was her mother who packed it up. Alas, so many years have passed, and speaking of it, Qi Huan, you and Lan Lan were still good friends back then. .”

"When something like that happened back then, I always wanted to come to the door to thank and apologize, but I never had the chance."

He was in the building materials business. Back then, Qi Huan's father was very popular in Nanjiang. He visited several times, but all of them were rejected.When I saw it later, the Qi family also looked like they didn't want to mention the old things.

This time is good, Qi Huan took the initiative to come to the door.

Thinking about it, Bao Quan'an took a peek at Shen Ke, seeing her expressionless face, ready to draw a gun and shoot someone to death in a matter of minutes, he completely stopped thinking about Kehui Group.

Bao Quan'an quickly opened the suitcase, watching Qi Huan's smile grow hotter.

Shen Ke didn't bother to pay attention to these things, and looked straight into the suitcase. The suitcase was full, including the baby's lanugo footprints, the birth certificate, and some medals won by the Baolanlan swimming competition, as well as a teddy bear. And a few thick photo albums.

Shen Ke looked at it, and took the one that looked newest.

More than half of the photo album has been used, and the remaining three or two pages are blank. Bao Lanlan obviously likes photography and has traveled to many places.

Shen Ke turned straight to the end, and the time was shown on the photo, which was taken on May [-]st of the year Bao Lanlan passed away.

Shen Ke put the photo album on the tea table, and Qi Huan and Li Yuan at the side also joined together.

The background of the photo is an old khaki-colored house, the kind of old house made of mud bricks in the past. There is a main room in the middle, a bedroom on each side, and a small kitchen on the far side. are common in rural areas.

Bao Lanlan, with her long black hair draped behind her head, stood next to a hand-rolled stone mill and pretended to grind it before taking this photo.

"There are other people in the room, it should be that time they went to the old house in the mountain village for a party." Shen Ke pointed to the main room, and there were several people crowded together at the Eight Immortals table in the middle, but they couldn't see their faces. Only the back.

"The imprint! Shen Ke, this is the imprint!" Qi Huan looked towards the hall, and suddenly became agitated, "It's on the threshold."

It was a round mark with distorted lines inside, it looked like snakes, or earthworms, and there was no reason for it.

There are more than one single photos of Bao Lanlan, and some were taken in the fields and in the bamboo forest on the back mountain. She was smiling and showed no frightened expression, as if she was just an ordinary spring outing.

Shen Ke continued to flip back, but there were two photo albums stuck together.

Shen Ke frowned, and carefully tore apart the photo album. Seeing this, everyone's expressions changed.

The album was stuck together because it was dripping with blood.

In the past, the photo albums were all loose-leaf inserts, and the laminated ones were not commonly used. Each fixed-sized plastic transparent grid has been divided, and you only need to insert the washed photos into it, which is very convenient.

Bao Lanlan's photo album is the kind that can hold two photos on the left and right sides, and when the photo album is spread out, you can see a total of four photos.

Except for the one in the upper left corner, the other three are still there, and they all seem to be photos of Bao Lanlan and the villagers.

"It must have been cut with a knife, the knife had blood dripping on it, and someone took the picture and closed the album, and after the blood dried, it glued the two pages together .”

Bao Quan'an was at a loss, "What's going on? Who took the photo? We didn't even look at it. We didn't know there was such a thing."

Qi Huan looked at Bao Quan'an solemnly, "We want Bao Lanlan's relic, can we take it to the bureau for testing?"

Bao Quanan came back to his senses and nodded, "Of course! It's great to be able to help Mr. Qi!"

He accentuated the three words "Xiao Qi Zong", which sounded like he was gnashing his teeth.

Shen Ke ignored his thoughts, and asked unwillingly, "Is Bao Lanlan's camera still there? Where did she put her photo albums before?"

Bao Quan'an smiled sheepishly, "It's been so many years, how can I still keep a camera? As for photo albums, I was busy with work at the time, so I don't know these details. Her mother left early, and usually Auntie took her."

Then the aunt died too.

After getting the things, the three of them didn't stay any longer, and the atmosphere after getting in the car was much heavier than when they came here.

"Didn't the forensic evidence find out this photo album?" Li Yuan couldn't help asking.

Although he also knew that it was superfluous to take off his pants and fart, if it was found out in the search, it would definitely be written in the file.

There was no smile on Qi Huan's face, "This was not the main direction of investigation back then. Shen Ke, you hit the spot again. How could a girl like Bao Lanlan not take photos when she travels?"

"Especially in this kind of offline gathering of netizens, there will definitely be group photos taken. There is a photo missing from Bao Lanlan's album. It should be that the group photo was taken away by the murderer and destroyed."

Shen Ke nodded, "What's so special about the photo? The so-called Zhu Xi was captured in the photo... Maybe there is Qiong Qi."

Shen Ke said, paused, "Those three gangsters, are they still there?"

Qi Huan's complexion became even worse, he shook his head, "Not here anymore, the three of them committed crimes all over the place, their crimes were bad, two were sentenced to death, and one died of illness while in prison. After they all died, I I'm going to tell Zhang Peiming."

Shen Ke frowned and moved his eyes, "Then what about the old policeman who found Qiongqi back then? Can you still find him?"

Qi Huan's eyes lit up, and he nodded heavily, "Yes!"

"There is something to be gained here. At least we are sure that there is something wrong with this case, so we can continue to investigate. Let's go to Qiongqi and ask Xiaomeng to check the ID of the nonsense section of Haijiao Forum to see if we can still do it." Find information on other people who were involved at the time."

Li Yuan, who finally found a gap to interject, scratched his head, "I don't understand why the murderer took the trouble to kill Bao Lanlan? The little girl didn't provoke him!
Could it be that the missing photo is not a group photo, but something incriminating that the little girl accidentally took. "

"She didn't know that it was a criminal evidence, and she got into trouble."

Shen Ke listened, and nodded thoughtfully, "If his ulterior motives are not in drinking, the person he wants to kill is not Bao Lanlan, but Zhang Peiming?"

"After all, Zhang Peiming's father, who is now Director Zhang, was the one who arrested Zhu Xi."

(End of this chapter)