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Chapter 14 Approaching the truth
In Luo Fei's living room, in a device composed of various glass vessels, black liquid is bubbling, juice drips from a glass tube on one side, and a coffee cup is underneath.

Xiaoman's eyes widened: "This is... coffee?"

Luo Fei proudly introduced: "Circulating steam pressure coffee machine, a little invention of mine."

"But these bottles... aren't they used for chemical experiments?" Xiaoman couldn't believe that the things in front of him were drinkable.

"Oh, that set is for my poison experiment, and this set is my coffee machine." Luo Fei pointed to an old-fashioned coffee machine in front of him, "Don't you see the obvious difference between them?"

Xiaoman shook her head blankly.

Luo Fei picked up the coffee cup: "Come, have a taste."

Xiaoman hesitated: "How about...you first?"

Luo Fei took a sip, full of enjoyment: "It smells so good."

"How is it? Is your headache feeling better?" Xiaoman asked.

"How do you know I have a headache?" Luo Fei was a little surprised.

"When I entered your bathroom yesterday, I saw you covering your head, like this." Xiaoman looked at Luo Fei with concern.

"My brain is like a motor. It can't stop for 24 hours after it starts running, so once a case is accepted, it must be solved as soon as possible." Luo Fei took another sip of coffee and tapped his mouth vigorously.

"Then you still take the case? Isn't that self-torture?" Xiaoman was surprised.

Luo Fei looked helpless: "If I don't take the case, my attention will be attracted by some trivial things, the phone number on the laundry list, an advertisement in the newspaper, a series of meaningless numbers that I saw by chance... …I can't help but write it down, to introduce the characters and events behind it."

"Obsessive-compulsive disorder?" Xiaoman began to unwittingly become interested in the man in front of her.

Luo Fei nodded: "My memory and observation skills are like a curse. I can only divert my attention by investigating cases and get rid of them."

"So you want to be a detective?"

Luo Fei picked up another cup of coffee: "Okay, this cup is yours."

Xiaoman tried to take a sip, and exclaimed in surprise: "It smells so good!"

"What about you? Why do you want to be a detective?"

Xiaoman put down the cup slowly, her face seemed to be covered with a layer of frost: "It has nothing to do with you."

"When you were eight years old, two muggers broke into your house and killed your parents. You escaped by hiding under your bed, so you decided to be a police detective and catch those two murderers with your own hands one day. .”

Xiaoman gave Luo Fei a hard look, and the newly established interest in the man in front of her was instantly extinguished.Perhaps the biggest characteristic of this man is that he is constantly bursting out with various reasons for people to hate him.

"Javert has your file." Luo Fei sipped his coffee without knowing it.

"It's not just the two murderers that I want to catch, I want to bring all the criminals to justice." Xiaoman looked solemn.

"It's a good wish, but unfortunately it's unrealistic. The evils in this world cannot be eliminated by our strength." "At least none of the criminals who hit my hand can escape." Xiaoman held the hand slowly. tighten up.

Luo Fei nodded: "That's why you are so angry that Ma Boyuan was released on bail."

"Although Ma Boyuan committed manslaughter, he should be punished as he should. He can't get away with it just because his family has money."

Luo Fei shook his head: "Actually, he's not carefree. The Ma family was already in decline. This time, in order to clear up the relationship, they mortgaged the house, which is what they deserve... I wonder if you feel better after hearing this?"

Xiaoman took a big sip of coffee, "No, I feel better seeing him in jail."

Luo Fei's expression suddenly became serious, and he shook his head: "No, I don't think this case is as simple as it seems on the surface. Ma Boyuan may not be the murderer, but the victim."

Xiaoman was surprised when he heard this: "Why do you say that? He confessed himself."

"He just stated the facts he saw, but they may not be the real facts." Luo Fei picked up the folder on the table, "This is today's interrogation record, don't you think there is something suspicious?"

"What's suspicious?" Xiaoman took the folder and looked through it carefully.

Luo Fei raised his index finger: "The first doubt is, why did Ma Boyuan's car drive on the left side that night?"

"Because half of the driveway is occupied by a gardener's cart." Xiaoman replied without thinking.

"Their family even dismissed their servants. How can they afford to hire a gardener, and the flowers and trees in the garden have not been pruned for many years." Luo Fei shook his head and said.

"Maybe...it was just placed there by accident." After Xiaoman finished speaking, she felt a little strange.

"The second and bigger doubt, come." Luo Fei said, standing up and moving a chair.

"What are you doing?" Xiaoman looked at Luo Fei suspiciously.

"Now I'm Ma Boyuan, you are Mrs. Ma, I'm driving, you grab the car door."

Xiaoman reluctantly stood up to cooperate with Luo Fei's instructions.

"Say it." Luo Fei looked at Xiao Man very seriously.

"What?" Xiaoman still didn't respond.

"Lines, Mrs. Ma." Luo Fei pouted.

"You...you bastard, are you going out to dance again?!" After Xiaoman said it, she felt that the first sentence was very enjoyable.

Luo Fei followed up and said emotionally: "Don't worry about it, get out of the way...the two were arguing, when a small cart appeared in front of the road blocking the road, Ma Boyuan turned the steering wheel instinctively, Mrs. The bushes are hanging upside down... down."

"Ah!" Xiaoman let go and pretended to fall to the ground.

"Stop, here is the doubt. You fell backwards, why did your head get crushed by the wheel?" Luo Fei looked at Xiaoman suspiciously.

"I was wrong just now, do it again." Xiaoman nodded.

Later, Luo Fei pretended to drive, and Xiaoman fell down again.

"Ah!" Xiaoman jumped back and then jumped forward, "Is that right?"

Luo Fei rubbed his forehead: "It's still not right, don't forget Ma Boyuan's confession, Mrs. Ma's body was face up."

Xiaoman immediately said: "Then come again!"

Immediately, the two acted again.

"Ah!" Xiaoman jumped back, turned 180 degrees on the spot, and fell to Luo Fei, who hugged Xiaoman tightly.

"Are you performing ballet?" Luo Fei looked helpless.

Xiaoman stood up embarrassedly: "Maybe she tripped over a stone and stepped on a banana peel... Anything is possible." Luo Fei shook his head, took the interrogation record and looked through it again.

"That's all for the interrogation records? Nothing missing?" Luo Fei raised his head to confirm with Xiaoman.

Xiaoman thought about it for a while: "No, I have remembered everything that needs to be remembered."

Luo Fei looked stern: "I always feel that there is a problem..."

"I don't think there is a problem with the case. It's that the motor in your mind can't stop. Don't think too much. Take a hot bath and go to bed early. I won't bother you anymore. Thank you for your coffee."

Xiaoman walked to the door, Luo Fei stopped her: "Wait... You just said you should memorize everything, is there anything else you shouldn't memorize?"

"I didn't remember the nonsense that had nothing to do with the case." Xiaoman said casually.

"What nonsense?" Luo Fei chased to the door.

"He said he saw a ghost. It's really inexplicable. I think there is a ghost in his heart." Xiaoman sneered.

"What the hell?" Luo Fei turned to Xiao Man.

Xiaoman looked at Luo Fei suspiciously, and said in a calm tone, "Mrs. Ma's ghost, he said that he saw Mrs. Ma's ghost on Peria Road last night, and was so frightened that he drove his car into a telephone pole."

Luo Fei immediately jumped up: "What?! You didn't mention such an important matter earlier! Let's go!"

"Where are you going? I'm going to sleep." Xiaoman froze in place.

"Coffee is not for nothing! A little professionalism, newcomer!" Luo Fei ran into the house after speaking.

Ten minutes later, Xiaoman was surprised to see a neat and tidy Luo Fei standing in front of her again.

"How did you do it?" Xiaoman pointed to Luo Fei and said.

"Now is not the time to discuss this."

After Luo Fei finished speaking, he quickly walked downstairs.

When the two got out of the rickshaw and turned into Ma's garden again, Luo Fei went straight to the garden with a flashlight to check.

"This is the third time we have come to the scene, what are you looking for?" Xiaoman asked a little tiredly.

"Found it." Luo Fei tore off a cut wire from the wall, "Using your criminal investigation ability to infer, how did the wire break?"

"Judging from the incision, it was artificially cut, and judging from the degree of surface oxidation, it was recently cut. What kind of line is this?"

Luo Fei pointed to the street lamp: "The interrogation records said that the street lamp was broken, but someone actually cut the street lamp wire on purpose."

Luo Fei walked quickly to the middle of the path, and Xiaoman followed immediately.

"Then this person put a gardener's cart here, causing Ma Boyuan to only drive on one side." Luo Fei said gesturing.

"Why would he do this?"

"What's on this side of the road?"

Xiaoman opened his mouth and said, "A tree."

"What does a tree do?"

Xiaoman paused for a second, then looked at Luo Fei: "Tibetan?"

Luo Fei nodded: "That's right, when the incident happened that night, there was a third person hiding here."

Xiaoman looked at the bushes again strangely: "What is he doing hiding here?"

Luo Fei slowly spit out two words: "Murder."

Xiaoman looked surprised: "Huh?"

"Mrs. Ma's death was neither an accident nor a suicide, but a well-planned murder."

"You are just guessing, there is no evidence."

Luo Fei poked his head into the bushes and looked around with the flashlight. Xiao Man stepped forward, but Luo Fei stopped him: "Don't come over, it will destroy the scene."

Xiaoman stood still and asked, "What did you find?"

Luo Fei's flashlight illuminated the dirt on the ground: "Footprints, men's leather shoes with patterned soles, size 40, weighing about 70 kilograms."

"It's normal to have footprints on the ground."

"Old lady Ma has small feet, the old concierge wears cloth shoes, and Ma Boyuan wears dancing sheepskin shoes with no grain on the sole."

"That would be..." Xiaoman rubbed her chin and pondered.

Luo Fei squatted down and put on his gloves, reached out and rummaged through the soil, found a small piece of broken glass, and immediately became elated: "Hahahaha, I caught you."

"Who did you catch?" Xiaoman asked hurriedly.

Luo Fei raised his head and shone the flashlight vertically on his face, then said under his breath, "Ghost."

(End of this chapter)