Eight Fresh Soup

Chapter 21 Back to the scene
At 3:[-] p.m. the next day, Moran called Gao Jing and asked him to take another trip to Du Xiaomei's villa. Gao Jing didn't object. As promised, he stopped at her downstairs.

Gao Jing only wore a black trench coat today, with a dark blue shirt inside.In the weather of December, he seemed to be dressed a little too thinly. In fact, when she saw him on the first day back home, she found that he was wearing too little. She always wanted to ask him if he wanted to be graceful or not. temperature?But she held back several times, she didn't want him to feel that she cared about him.

"Can you tell me the purpose of your trip?" Gao Jing asked dryly after the car started.

"It's all about remembering the old man." Moran replied casually.

"Bullshit!" He frowned, annoyed at her dishonesty.

"Whatever you think." Moran didn't bother to talk to him.

"Are you looking for something again?"

Moran didn't speak.

"If you don't tell me, I won't drive and leave you halfway, believe it or not?" He stared ahead and asked viciously.

"Think twice about speaking to you, or you'll corner my friend at any moment." Moran said nonchalantly, and if he thought he could frighten her with a stare, he was mistaken.However, Moran is not in the mood to argue with him now, and now she has to calm down and think about the whole thing, so she took out a bag of fried potato chips from her bag, and at least she didn't have to answer him while eating. broken problem.

He frowned when he heard her "bajibaji" chewing potato chips.

"You're a nutritionist? You look like a hungry pig when you eat junk food," he said in disgust.He never spoke to her again until he reached his destination.

Moran ignored his slander at all, only thinking for himself.Her math is not good, but her thinking is still clear.She knew that if she caught a thread in these tangled ropes, all the knots would be untied.Now she is close to the answer, in fact, she has already guessed the answer, but she still needs more evidence to convince herself, which can only be done at the scene.

Liao Yongli was waiting for them in the villa. As soon as they arrived, he opened the iron gate almost at the same time.Only then did Moran know that Gao Jing had informed him in advance that Liao Yongli had another set of keys.

"You're finally here." He seemed relieved.

Sometimes men are much less courageous than women. Since the accident, Liao Yongli has not come back to live in it. Moran understands that even if he is left alone in this haunted house where his wife died for a minute, he will feel terrified Trembling, not to mention that he had been waiting inside for nearly an hour.

"You can watch whatever you want. I haven't touched anything." After Liao Yongli let them into the room, he immediately stepped aside.

Gao Jing nodded imperceptibly, and then glanced at Moran.

"Okay, you can start."

"Then let's go, Mr. Police Officer." She stepped up the stairs first, and Gao Jing followed behind her.

The three of them came to Du Xiaomei's room together. It was almost the same as a few days ago. There were still traces of police treatment, the bed was removed, and the place where the bed was placed is now empty. A human figure was drawn, which shows that Du Xiaomei's body was found here.But Moran was not interested in this. She first walked to the vanity mirror, where there was a box of anti-allergy medicine that she had seen last time. She took it out and saw that one was missing.She put the medicine back where it was and went straight into the bathroom.

"The bathtub is really high-end." Moran walked to the bathtub and pretended to admire,
She caught a glimpse of Gao Jing staring at her beside her, and couldn't help laughing.

"Did you come to see the bathtub?"

"I'll take a look, maybe I want to renovate the house?"

"Okay, then you can play." He coughed and stepped aside, Moran looked back at him, did he catch a cold?

Gao Jing just stared at her intently, not understanding why she suddenly looked at him.

"The murderer may be hiding here, and when Xiaomei comes in, she will be strangled to death while she is not prepared." Moran said, first opening an inconspicuous small cabinet under the sink in the bathroom, which was neatly arranged Xiaomei's perfume, cotton swabs, pedicure, paper towels, mint ointment, Liao Yongli's razor, band-aids and alcohol cotton.

She closed the cabinet door and opened the door of another cabinet. There were several bottles of Japanese shower gel and shampoo in it, and a pack of facial masks beside it.

"I don't understand why she dragged Xiaomei's body under the bed instead of putting it on the bed?" Liao Yongli asked suddenly behind her.

"Because she doesn't know what to do. The first time she kills someone, it's like breaking her mother's beloved vase. She wants to hide the thing that caused the trouble immediately." Moran replied absent-mindedly.

"What are you looking for? We've checked here a long time ago." Gao Jing couldn't help being a little annoyed when she saw that she opened the cabinet door and watched for a long time without any movement.

She didn't answer.In fact, she really wanted to find out the clues of outsiders committing the crime and restore everyone's innocence, but now her reason tells her that this is not the case.As she expected, she did find what she was looking for, but that was only half the job.

"Let's go," she said dejectedly.

After a while, they walked out of Du Xiaomei's room and went to the bathroom downstairs.Gao Jing entered the bathroom one step ahead of her, and she followed slowly, still feeling sad for her discovery, could it really be her?Why?Why?
When she walked into the bathroom, she saw Gao Jing holding a lip balm in his hand.

"Is this yours?" he asked her over his shoulder.

Ha, here, Moran stared fixedly at the lip balm in his hand.

Seeing her staring at the lip balm without making a sound, he handed it to her: "Do you want to take it back?"

"Okay, give it to me."

Moran took the lip balm, and couldn't help but look up at him, just in time to meet a meaningful look from him, her heart couldn't help but tremble, thinking of their lip balm incident.

"Thank you." She said, and then she opened the door of the small cabinet next to the toilet. There were indeed sanitary napkins in it, and several of them had been used. She put the sanitary napkins back where they were, feeling more and more heavy, even though they had already I guessed the result, but I was still a little surprised and unacceptable. After all, they are friends.

"Any questions?" he asked her.

She shook her head, suddenly wanted to cough, she quickly took out a piece of toilet paper, covered her mouth and coughed a few times.

He looked at her with concern.

"I suddenly choked." She explained, then threw the toilet paper into the toilet, and pressed the flush button, and the water gushed out.Seeing her actions, he smiled meaningfully.

"So your task for today is done?" he asked, looking at her.

"Yes." She nodded.

He looked at her, as if he was waiting for her to say something he wanted to hear, but after waiting for a while, she didn't speak, so he turned his head and said to Liao Yongli: "Then let's go first."

"I'm going with you, I don't want to stay here alone." Liao Yongli said quickly.

A few minutes later, Moran got into Gao Jing's car and waved goodbye to Liao Yongli through the car window. Then she saw Liao Yongli's Buick Feiye and drove away ahead of them.

"He's so timid." Moran couldn't help laughing as he looked at the rear of Liao Yongli's car.

Gao Jing didn't respond and started the car.

"What are you looking for? I don't think you're looking for that at all, that lip balm." Gao Jing finally couldn't hold back and asked again.

Moran was silent.

"What the hell?" he asked in a low voice.

"Aren't you cold?" Moran glanced at the shirt in his windbreaker and asked suddenly, she didn't want to talk about the case now.

"Huh?" He seemed taken aback by the question, and then replied, "A little bit." After a while, he added: "I haven't had time to take out the winter clothes yet."

This sentence made Moran feel a little sad. In the past, she would help him tidy up his clothes every time the seasons changed, but after she got divorced this year, she put his matter behind her.She glanced back at the shirt in his windbreaker again, thinking, where is Gao Jie at this time?Why don't you see her come to take care of her brother who is busy with work and can't take care of himself?
"You wear very little." He said, looking at her fashionable one-piece woolen dress.

"I wear a lot, just because I've lost weight and you can't tell," Moran said.

He freed his hand to touch her arm quickly, as if to test whether she really wore a lot of clothes.

"That's right." She asked softly.

He smiled, looked straight ahead, and said after a long time, "You're so thin."

For some reason, she suddenly wanted to cry, she quickly turned her head away, she didn't want to cry in front of him.Crying at such an inexplicable moment, he will definitely ask non-stop, and she will not be able to explain, she is only crying because of the heartache hidden in his words.After a while, she finally controlled her emotions and looked straight ahead. Suddenly, out of the corner of her eyes, she saw a box of food on the front glass of the car. When she looked carefully, it turned out to be a cake in a small plastic box.Ah, today is his birthday, Moran thought suddenly.

"Hey, there's a cake," she exclaimed with mock delight.

"Well, my dinner." He said flatly.

"Your dinner? Are you not afraid of sweets?"

"Today I suddenly have a craving for a piece of cake," Gao Jing said.

It was clear to Moran that his desire for cake was symbolic, that he was a lonely man, and that he didn't expect anyone to be with him on his birthday.

"As you said, I'm a little hungry, how about giving me this cake of yours?" She said deliberately.

"But you just ate potato chips." He looked back at her in surprise.

"It's really stingy for refusing to pull it down." Moran gave him a blank look.

"Okay, you take it."

"Thanks." Moran smiled at him, and then asked, "However, what about your dinner?"

"I'll buy another piece later when I go back."

"Why do you have to eat cake tonight?" Moran wished he could tell that it was her birthday so she would have a reason to rip him off, but instead he just said, "Today I just want to eat cake .”

Moran fell silent.

The topic of cake seemed to put an end to the conversation between them. After more than an hour, the two of them didn't say a word.

(End of this chapter)