investigative chronicle

Chapter 95 The Silent Witness
Luo Li was pushed back to bed by her mother, but she couldn't sleep. When she closed her eyes, Miao Miao invited her to take the bus with her pink umbrella, and she waved goodbye to her through the car window.

People who were fine yesterday, why are they gone?With so many people on the bus, how could something happen to her?
Miaomiao's murder opened a big hole in her world, darkness and cold poured in, and the flowers in the greenhouse were instantly stained with frost...

Luo Li was trembling uncontrollably, and she had to bite the quilt to silence her trembling teeth.

Meanwhile, in the living room, her parents were having a hard time.The father wanted to call the police to tell the police what Luo Li had said.

But his mother pressed his hand: "If we tell the police what Luo Li said, will the murderer take revenge? You know... the first person he targeted was our Luo Li..."

"If Miao Miao's family knows that the person that person is targeting is Luo Li...would they blame her?"

"And that person is a rapist... If we say so, will there be gossip about our daughter..."

"A Nian, you don't know how terrible gossip is. I'm afraid... my daughter will be troubled by it."

The husband held his wife's hand instead: "You think too much. We are not afraid of the shadow, so don't worry about it. They are just chewing their tongues behind their backs."

His wife's hands were cold: "This is the scary part. If they said it in person, we could still argue, but they said behind their backs, who are you going to explain to? You can't just talk to someone when you see them Well... Besides, the people who are rumored are often the last to know."

"Lou Li is still so young, how can she bear this."

"Yesterday...we didn't wake up our daughter...would Miaomiao's parents blame us? If we had provided the information yesterday, maybe...maybe Miaomiao wouldn't have died..."

"Miao Miao is dead, what's the use of talking about it now?"

After listening to his wife's words, the husband sat down on the sofa dejectedly.My wife was right. If they had provided this information yesterday, the police would have locked up the bus very quickly, which might have prevented the tragedy from happening.

They didn't say it yesterday... If they say it today, others will complain about them.

At this moment, Luo Li suddenly let out a cry.They immediately rushed into their daughter's room.I saw Luo Li trembling behind the quilt, but her eyes were fixed on the window...

"Lily, what's the matter?" The mother stepped forward and hugged her daughter.

"There... there was a black shadow just now..." Luo Li stretched out her blue and white little finger and pointed out the window.

Hearing this, the father asked the mother to take the daughter to lock the door, while he took a clothes rail to check outside the house...

Luo Li's home is in an old community, where there are only 4 red brick slab buildings, and their home is on the first floor of the first slab building on the north side of the entrance of the community.Moreover, there is no real estate and monitoring in the community, and the only access control has long been damaged.

Father soon came outside, where he had planted a row of boxwoods a few years ago for safety.

He quickly checked the outside of the house and found nothing.He even walked outside the community to look around. The path after the rain was covered with fallen leaves, which was a bit bleak, and the few people who passed by occasionally were in a hurry...

He stood for a while, and then walked back after confirming that there was no suspicious person.When he came to his window, he glanced subconsciously, and suddenly found that there seemed to be something hanging in the boxwood bushes...

He immediately walked over, pushed aside the branches with the clothes rail, and suddenly saw a white bunny doll hanging on it, which was his birthday present for his daughter...How come here?

He carefully removed the doll and examined it carefully.The mouth of the little rabbit doll was sewed with a big cross with red thread... The red × is particularly scary among the white fluff.

Do you mean shut up?He clenched his fists, looked around frantically, even ran out of the alley, and asked if he had encountered any suspicious person...Passers-by were caught in pain by him, those with a better temper frown and shrugged him off, and those with a bad temper directly called him a lunatic...

When Luo Li's mother saw that her husband hadn't come back, she was worried and frightened. Just when she was hesitating whether to go out to check, her husband pushed open the door.

The moment the door was opened, two embarrassed people looked at each other, one was holding a clothes rail, the other was holding a kitchen knife...

Seeing that it was the husband who entered the door, the strength that the wife had just exploded disappeared in an instant. If the husband hadn't helped her, she would have almost collapsed to the ground.

In the living room, the atmosphere was solemn, and the wife only glanced at the doll before looking away.

"This is Lily's stuff, why is it there?"

"Could it be... Could it be that the person sent it back on purpose to warn us..." She said uneasily.

"Let's not tell Lily about this... I'll deal with it." The husband picked up the doll.

"Dad, how's it going? Did you see anyone?"

"Isn't this the rabbit doll on my schoolbag? Why is it here?"

Seeing Luo Li coming out of the bedroom, the father hurriedly tried to put the doll behind his back, but was stopped by his daughter who rushed over.

She grabbed the doll and saw the big red × at a glance.

Luo Li groaned and hurriedly let go, and her father took the opportunity to take the doll away.

The mother hugged her daughter: "Why did you come out? You are still sick, don't worry about these things, we are here. Be good, go back to the house and rest."

Luo Li's mind was full of the doll she had just seen, and the big red X was impacting her thoughts.She was mechanically supported by her mother and returned to the bed.

After her mother left, Luo Li raised her hand and pressed the quilt to Xiang Xiang, trying to breathe.At this time, a faint smell of lavender slipped through the soft quilt.

She sniffed, trying to catch the fleeting fragrance, but to no avail.She opened the quilt and smelled everywhere, until she got close to the fingers of her right hand, she smelled the scent of lavender again.

This hand... touched that doll just now....Thinking of this, she stumbled into the living room and told her parents about her discovery.

They were not particularly surprised to hear the news.Mother pulled Luo Li to sit on the sofa, "Lily, Mom has something important to tell you."

Luo Li looked at her mother in confusion.Mom and Dad exchanged glances, apparently they had reached an agreement.

Mother held her in her arms and told her softly not to tell what happened in the past two days.Not to mention that she was riding the bus with Miao Miao...

Luo Li's first reaction was to refuse, and she now understood that the man in the white shirt was probably the murderer.If she can provide this clue to the police, maybe the case can be solved.

That day, for the first time, Luo Li had a heated argument with her parents.For this she cried for a long time, and her mother also cried for a long time.

They talked about their worries and fears, trying to persuade Luo Li.But Luo Li, who had never experienced anything in the world, was not afraid of this at all. Miao Miao was always in her mind, and she wanted to get justice for her.

(End of this chapter)