gentry

Chapter 37 Forgive the Devil
I remember it was one night, in the study of Xiao Zhai.

Xiaolu secretly opened the music box and flipped through the music inside.

Xiao Lang suddenly appeared behind him: "Xiao Lu, what are you doing?"

Fawn turned back nervously: "I'm looking for the music score."

Xiao Lang said with a sullen face, "Didn't I tell you that the music box cannot be moved?"

"sorry."

"What did you see?" Xiao Lang stared at Xiaolu's uneasy expression, with doubts on his face.

"Nothing, just sheet music."

Xiao Lang picked up the music score: "Do you know what this piece is?"

Xiaolu shook his head: "I don't know."

Xiao Lang picked up the music score: "This song is called "The Flower of the Other Shore". It used to be all the rage, and it was a repertoire of our band's performances. But once a musician named Xia Luna played this song at home, and died strangely while playing it. From now on, everyone thinks this song is unlucky, and no one plays it again...Have you heard of Xia Luna?"

Xiao Lang said while staring at Xiao Lu.

"No." Xiao Lu avoided Xiao Lang's eyes.

Xiao Lang put the sheet music on the piano stand: "Play and watch."

Deer hesitated: "I..."

"Why, are you afraid of bad luck?" Xiao Lang said coldly.

Xiao Lu took a deep breath, walked over and played the tune slowly.

Xiao Lang stood behind Xiaolu, making Xiaolu feel uncomfortable.

"Xiaolu, how old are you this year?" Xiao Lang asked.

"twenty."

"Five years ago you were exactly 15 years old."

"Yeah, what's the matter?" Xiao Lu nervously glanced behind him from the corner of his eye.

"It's nothing, it reminds me of someone." Xiao Lang seemingly casually put his hand on Xiaolu's shoulder.

"Who?" Little Lu paused with his hands.

"By the way, your resume says you studied music in America, right?"

Xiaolu nodded: "Yes."

"Which school?" Xiao Lang asked again with a sneer.

"Boston Conservatory."

"Boston, huh, such a familiar place name." Xiao Lang squinted his eyes and looked Xiao Lu back and forth, "Like, really like, from the side, you and Xia Luna are exactly the same."

Xiao Lu nervously played the note: "Really?"

"Don't stop, keep playing!" Xiao Lang suddenly raised his voice.

Xiao Lu continued to play, while Xiao Lang walked to the corner of the room and quietly took out a syringe.

"Did you know that Xia Luna has a younger sister, she has disappeared since her sister died, and no one has seen her again. You said how can a person disappear without a trace, could it be... We got the gender wrong, then Not the younger sister, maybe the younger brother?" Xiao Lang held the syringe in his hand and approached Xiaolu as he spoke.

Xiaolu saw Xiao Lang's actions from the reflection of the piano.

Xiao Lang raised the syringe to pierce it, Xiaolu dodged it cleverly, grabbed Xiao Lang's hand with his backhand, and stabbed the syringe hard into his neck.

"You guessed it right, I am Xia Luna's younger sister." Xiaolu stared at Xiao Lang with red eyes.

Xiao Lang clutched his neck, short of breath, and staggered towards the phone.

Xiao Lu took the first step to pick up the phone receiver, and looked coldly at Xiao Lang who was kneeling on the ground.

"Quick... call quickly, call an ambulance..."

"Tell me first, how can I find the captain?" Deer leaned down, his tone became gloomy.

"Captain can't be found unless you ask him to come to you... Give me the phone quickly." Xiao Lang reached out to snatch it, but Xiao Lu pushed him away.

"How can I get him to come to me?"

"Don't worry, if you take his goods, he will definitely find you and kill you with his own hands." Xiao Lang lay on the ground, twitching slightly.

"What's the password for the safe? Say it quickly!" Xiaolu asked.

Xiao Lang lost his mind, and muttered to himself: "It's so comfortable... so death is so comfortable..."

Seeing this, Xiao Lu sat back in front of the piano expressionlessly: "Let me play your favorite piece of music, and send you off for the last time." Tears flowed from the corners of Xiao Lang's eyes. He stopped breathing.

……

Still in this room, Xiaolu was still sitting in front of the piano, night turned into day, Luo Fei and Xiaoman stared at Xiaolu vaguely.

"Because your identity was exposed, you had to kill Xiao Lang, and then you sent the other four members of the band to the end one by one, but that is not your ultimate goal, your ultimate goal is the captain. You need a reason , so the captain had to contact you." Luo Fei walked to Xiao Lu and said.

"So he took the shipment?" Xiaoman asked.

Luo Fei nodded: "To get that batch of goods, you must first obtain the password of the safe. Xiao Lang is dead, but you have no ability to unlock the password of the music score. For this reason, you need the help of someone who is good at reasoning and solving puzzles."

Xiaolu sighed: "I have found four or five private detectives, and only you meet my requirements."

"But you know that if you want me to participate in the investigation, just a rumor is not enough, you have to let me see the magic of the murder music with my own eyes. So you carefully arranged a secret room in Xiao Lang's study." Luo Fei looked Xiao Lu showed a look of admiration on his face, "After making sure everything is safe, you aroused my curiosity with the legend of killing people with music, and brought me to the memorial service, and then you took a chance to trick Guan Er into the secret room, and you did these things for me. For you at this age, it's really good, but it's also scary."

Then, Luo Fei said to the little deer with a little sarcasm and regret: "You killed Guan Er and put the music score next to the corpse to lure me into the bait. I have to say that doing so is really too risky."

"But you are still hooked." Xiaoman said.

Luo Fei immediately glanced at Bai Xiaoman: "After Guan Er died, you deliberately quoted the key to solving the case on the music score, and I finally unlocked the safe code for you, but you took the first step and took the contents inside, and put your sister When Zheng Dong opened the safe, he only saw an empty cabinet and your photo inside. You chased Zheng Dong in front of me last night, but you already knew where Zheng Dong was going. You said that you were hit by a car and sent to the hospital, but you never went to the hospital, but rushed to Xia Luna's house one step earlier, and waited in ambush for Zheng Dong."

Luo Fei rubbed his nose, as if addicted to cigarettes, took out a cigar, and continued: "You didn't expect that Xiaoman and I would find Xia Luna's house so quickly, and hid in the closet again in desperation dark grid."

"When we were at Xia Luna's house last night, he was always by our side?" Xiao Man looked at Xiao Lu in surprise.

Luo Fei nodded: "Yes, he heard all the conversations we had with Guorong. After Guorong escaped, he knew that Guorong would go to find Uncle Cao, so he went to the auditorium and hid himself, quietly waiting for the good show to unfold. .”

"After Guorong was killed, Xiaoman and I rushed to the auditorium one after another, while you hid in the dark and waited until I was in danger, then you came to my rescue." Luo Fei bit his cigar and stared at Xiaolu.

"If I had known earlier, I wouldn't have saved you." Xiao Lu said slightly angrily.

"You save me because you are not a murderous villain. You just want to avenge your sister, and you don't want to hurt innocent people." Luo Fei clicked on the lighter, and through the trembling of the flame, the deer seemed to follow suit. trembling.

"No matter what your motive is, killing is killing, follow me back to the patrol room." Xiaoman took out the handcuffs and walked towards Xiaolu.

Xiaolu shook his head again and again: "No, not now, I have to seek revenge from him."

"You mean Captain." Xiaoman said.

"Yes, that's right, Captain is the real murderer who killed my sister. If it were you, knowing that the murderer who killed your relatives is still at large, would you be willing to give up revenge? Can you?" Xiao Lu began to growl hysterically.

At this time, Luo Fei was looking at Xiaoman, and in that eyes, there was another woman's face, reflecting the raging fire behind him, and was engulfed by the flames in an instant...

"I can take you to see Captain." Luo Fei said suddenly.

Both Xiaoman and Xiaolu looked at Luo Fei in surprise.

"After meeting the Captain, you can choose whether to take revenge or not."

"Luo Fei?!" Xiaoman looked at Luo Fei.

"But you have to promise me one thing, you will surrender after meeting Captain, how about that?"

Xiaolu thought for a long time, then nodded solemnly, "Yes."

An hour later, inside the prison meeting room, Xiaolu sat waiting outside the barred window, Luo Fei and Xiaoman stood behind him.

Inside the iron window, the side door opened, and a prison guard came in pushing a wheelchair, on which sat a demented old man.

The seemingly demented Captain looked at the three of Luo Fei outside the railing, drooling in his mouth and mumbled something: "Aba, Aba..."

Xiaoman asked Luo Fei in a low voice: "Didn't you say you brought us to meet the Captain?"

Luo Fei pointed at the old man: "He is Captain."

Xiao Lu was silent for a long time, then looked back at Luo Fei: "I don't believe it!"

"Ten years ago I worked with then-patrol room detectives on him and his organization, and he was shot by one of our officers as he was running away. look."

Xiao Lu clenched his fists and stared at the man in front of him, tears streaming down his face.

The demented Captain danced and danced, and the prison guard slapped him with a baton: "What's the noise!"

The demented Captain just smirked.

"He is like this now, even if you beat him and scold him, he won't feel anything. Do you think killing such a Captain is really avenging your most important person?" Luo Fei said calmly.

(End of this chapter)