reckless detective

Chapter 362 A Hot Meal (4)

"I... arrived the day before yesterday."

The man took out a train ticket stub from his pocket.Yan Ruyu took it and took a look, and it turned out that he arrived in Jingbei City the afternoon before yesterday.

"Then what have you been doing these two days?"

"Let's look for the two of them, the woman answered my call, but she shirked and refused to see me, and said something to make her think about it.

Damn, I only have tens of dollars on me, not enough to live in. She slept on a park bench for two nights, and she still played me a tantrum..."

"Then how did you find it here?"

"I vaguely remember that her sister's family opened a store near here, selling mutton powder soup, so I asked all the way to find it. I happened to walk here this morning and saw a lot of people around. I just wanted to join in the fun. Who will succeed? Think..." The man lowered his head and wiped his eyes, "Why didn't I have my baby?"

There was no logic in what he said, he used a hammer here and a stick here. Fortunately, Yan Ruyu was experienced and clear-headed, so he was not led by the nose.

Yan Ruyu continued to ask: "Which park did you spend the night in these two days? Can someone see you and prove it for you?"

"There's a tramp. I've talked to him. I don't know if he's still there."

Xiaobai volunteered and said, "I'll take him to check his whereabouts first!"

"Success!" Yan Ruyu nodded, and then said to Minghui: "Let's start the outside visits, pay attention to people who have conflicts with the proprietress's family, pay attention to debts, and nearby restaurants and colleagues. I think her business is good. "

"Understood! Isn't there that saying, only between colleagues is naked hatred. Don't worry! I will pay attention!"

After solving these extraneous matters, Yan Ruyu returned to the back kitchen again, but saw Wu Cuo poking his head out of the skylight, looking around for something.

"Did you find anything?" Yan Ruyu asked.

"Don't tell me, footprints! Fresh footprints!"

Upon hearing this, Yan Ruyu also became energetic, and hurriedly asked: "What kind of footprints?"

"Man, the shoe size should be size [-]. Judging from the sole pattern, he is wearing a pair of badly worn leather shoes."

Yan Ruyu shook her head, "It's not the child's father. I saw him just now, and he is wearing cloth shoes, at least size 42."

"From this point of view, the person who left the shoe prints should be an outsider, not the helpers and waiters who live in the backyard. Because if they enter the back kitchen, they can go directly through the back door instead of climbing the wall and over the skylight."

"That's right." Wu Cuo simply climbed up from the skylight to the roof, and followed the footprints on the roof all the way forward.

This is a row of facade houses with only one floor. The facades are uniformly decorated in an antique style, and the roofs are connected to each other, which is 50 meters long.

The footprints extend all the way to the end of the roof and climbing marks were found on the side walls of the house.

Yan Ruyu also climbed onto the roof, following Wu Cuo's pace.

Looking at the side wall with climbing marks, Wu Cuo said: "It seems that someone has climbed up from here."

"But why is there only one row of footprints?" Yan Ruyu asked, "Someone climbed up from here, walked to the skylight, climbed down along the skylight, entered the mutton powder soup shop, but didn't return along the road, the murderer was How did you get out?"

Wu Cuo frowned and thought for a while and said, "But...there is no climbing trace left at the skylight, could it be...the person who went on the roof has nothing to do with this case at all, it's just that someone climbed the roof out of boredom... ..."

"Impossible! You have seen the footprints along the way, and there is no hesitation in the middle. This person's goal is very clear, and that is the skylight of Shenji Mutton Noodle Soup Shop.

What's more, casually going to the room for a stroll always leaves footprints on the return journey, but the footprints stopped abruptly when they reached the skylight of Shenji Mutton Noodle Soup Restaurant, and the person must have entered the skylight. "

Yan Ruyu returned to the back kitchen the same way, while Wu Cuo stayed on the roof to take pictures and collect evidence.

As soon as he returned to the back kitchen, Yan Ruyu carefully looked at the dishes and jars on the stove table.After reading it, he pointed to some of the large enamel jars and asked Master Wu: "These oily things are usually placed here?"

"That's right, clear oil and chili oil have been kept here. And..." Master Wu hesitated for a moment, then pointed to the underside of the desk. It's the oil."

Yan Ruyu leaned forward to look at the white plastic vat under the table.

I didn't see the contents of the bucket, but I first asked about an unpleasant smell.

Yan Ruyu pulled the white barrel out a little, and the smell became stronger.It seemed that something was sour after being fried, a burnt sour smell.

"This is...damn it! Waste oil!" Yan Ruyu rarely cursed.

He was used to the smell of rotting corpses, but at this moment his stomach was very nauseous, and he had to suppress the feeling of wanting to retch.

"You!" He pointed at the master's nose, wanted to scold, but held back, and finally just sighed.

Yan Ruyu found that after removing the white bucket, a circle of red and yellow oil marks appeared on the ground that was originally pressed by the white bucket. When she touched it with her hands, the oil was not dry and sticky.

He looked up and down the white oil barrel.The oil barrel is cylindrical, about one meter high, and has a radius of seventy to eighty centimeters.

A circular opening with a radius of about [-] centimeters was opened on the top, and there was no cover.

There are many dry oil spots on the barrel wall around the round mouth, which seem to be dripped when the oil is scooped out.

On one side there are large marks left by spilled oil.

Yan Ruyu looked at the trace carefully, then touched it with her hands, and found that the spilled oil hadn't solidified yet.

"Has the oil in here been spilled recently?" Yan Ruyu asked.

"I remember...no!" The chef yelled out loudly, "Little bastards! Which one of you spilled the oil?"

"No ah!"

"I do not have either!"

"Yes, yes, when we were working, didn't you watch from the side?"

……

When Wu Cuo climbed down from the skylight, Yan Ruyu was staring at the mimeograph in silence, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Did you find anything?" Wu Cuo asked.

"It's a big discovery, but it's a pity that it doesn't help solve the case at the moment." Yan Ruyu thought for a while and said: "I need a list of the employees in the store."

He said to all the employees waiting in the store: "Please go back to the dormitory, we have some questions to ask everyone individually, don't be nervous, just answer normally."

Wu Cuo also said to the boss: "The back kitchen is the scene of the crime and needs to be blocked. I'm afraid it won't be able to open these days."

The boss is quite talkative, nodded and said: "As long as the case can be solved quickly, I will fully cooperate with you."

The crowd was noisy for a while, and they returned to the dormitory in a panic. Yan Ruyu and Wu Cuo used the front hall of the restaurant as a questioning place, and the boss was the first to accept the questioning.

"How much do you know about the child's parents?"

(End of this chapter)