"Gu Chen, what are you looking at?" Officer Wang noticed something strange about Gu Chen and asked.
"No." Gu Chen looked away and whispered: "Senior Brother Wang, you check here first, I will go out for a while."
"Junior Brother Gu, I'll go with you." Lu Weiwei actually noticed the movement of the residents opposite just now and wanted to go with Gu Chen to understand the situation.
As soon as the two of them reached the door, the gap in the opposite door suddenly closed. Then, they heard a faint sound of locking the door, as if someone was sneaking behind them.
"Duk duk duk!" Gu Chen knocked on the door three times and asked, "Is there anyone inside?"
Three seconds passed, but there was no movement on the other side.
Immediately afterwards, Lu Weiwei called out again: "We are the police and want to know something about the situation with you."
Three seconds have passed again.
Then……
Three seconds after that and three seconds after that.
Finally, I heard faint footsteps in the room, gradually approaching the door.
Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei instinctively stepped back.
"Squeak!"
The wooden door seemed a bit old. Behind the crack in the door, a middle-aged woman poked her head out and asked with a somewhat guarded expression: "Is something wrong?"
"We are the police and want to know something about the residents opposite."
Gu Chen first identified himself, but as soon as he finished speaking, he found a five or six-year-old boy holding the middle-aged woman's thigh, hiding behind her and observing secretly.
"I don't know very well." The middle-aged woman didn't seem to want to cause trouble.
Gu Chen smiled frankly and said, "Sister, I won't delay you for a long time."
"Okay then." The middle-aged woman hesitated for a few seconds before agreeing.
If it were anyone else, the middle-aged woman would definitely not want to meddle in other people's business, but Gu Chen's smile was really irresistible.
She had seen a lot of idol stars in TV dramas, but she probably wasn't as good-looking as the handsome policeman in front of her, so she agreed after thinking about it.
The middle-aged woman first asked Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei to sit on the sofa, and then went to pour tea. The little boy ran into the room, then hid behind the door, revealing a tiny gap, and hid behind to observe secretly.
"Sister, is that your son?" Lu Weiwei asked curiously.
"That's right." The middle-aged woman took out two glasses of water and put them on the table: "Ever since my son was beaten by the teacher in kindergarten, he has become extremely timid."
"Is there such a thing?" Lu Weiwei was furious when she heard it: "What happened next? Was the teacher punished?"
"The teacher was fired." The middle-aged woman sighed: "But since then, my son's character has become extremely autistic. When he sees strangers, he only dares to hide behind the door."
Gu Chen looked at the little boy behind the door and smiled at him: "Kid, if you look at me through the crack in the door, you'll look down on me."
"Hehe!" Unexpectedly, the little boy also showed a forced smile and seemed to be responding.
"That's right." Gu Chen suddenly remembered that he gave out snacks to the Criminal Investigation Team Three in the morning, and there was just a pack of candies left in his pocket. Then he took it in his hand and shook it at the little boy: "Here."
The little boy pursed his lips, but didn't come out.
"Haha, he is really timid." Lu Weiwei was also amused, so she had no choice but to take the candy from Gu Chen's hand and deliver it to him personally.
"Sister, can I ask you a few questions now?" Gu Chen took out his notebook and wanted to know something about the situation here.
"Just tell me. As long as I know something, I will definitely tell you." The middle-aged woman put her hands on her knees and her attitude was much calmer.
"Do you know the two women who live across the street?"
"I'll say hello when we meet, but we're not familiar with each other."
"You must also know what happened today." Gu Chen habitually turned to his pen and said, "I want to hear your opinion."
The on-site inquiry... once again came to a standstill.
After a few seconds, the middle-aged woman recalled: "Both women were named Zhao, and they seemed to be from the same place. One of them had returned to her hometown in the past few days, and the other one, I didn't know until almost noon.
To be killed at home is so terrible."
Thinking of this, the middle-aged woman was also restless: "This woman may have been killed at home a long time ago, but I worked the night shift at work last night and left my son at home alone. This... This is too scary to think about.
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"Are you alone?" Gu Chen raised his head and asked suddenly.
"I'm sorry. We just got divorced last year and my son is temporarily raised by me."
"sorry."
"It doesn't matter." The middle-aged woman didn't mind: "That's all I know, because I rarely stay at home. Sometimes I work overtime, so I let my son stay at home alone. Now that something like this has happened, I'm afraid I have to put down what I'm doing.
I have a job to stay with my son, but it means I will lose my job and I am very worried now.”
What was originally a good questioning session suddenly turned into a middle-aged woman confiding her true feelings to Gu Chen.
Lu Weiwei brought the little boy over and asked, "In other words, you were not at home last night?"
"Yes." The middle-aged woman nodded: "I'm really worried about letting my son stay home alone."
"Don't worry, we will catch the murderer as soon as possible." After a few words of comfort to the middle-aged woman, Gu Chen turned his attention to the little boy: "Kid, what's your name?"
"My name is Zhou Yufan." The little boy looked at Gu Chen's uniform and felt an inexplicable sense of intimacy.
"Then last night, did you find any strangers entering or leaving the aunt's house across the street?" Gu Chen tried to get some useful clues from the little boy.
Reasonable reasoning is based on existing facts and correct conclusions, and then the corresponding reasoning process can be carried out, and finally the truth can be found based on clues.
The little boy hesitated for a few seconds before nodding: "Yes."
Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei looked at each other, feeling that there was a breakthrough.
"Then did you see clearly who entered the room opposite?" Gu Chen took advantage of the little boy to eat candy and thought of it as a hot iron.
As a result, the little boy shook his head and said in a sweet voice: "I only know that three people have entered the opposite room, but I dare not open the door."
"Why?" Lu Weiwei asked puzzledly: "Don't you like to hide behind the door and observe secretly? We were on the opposite side just now, and you should be the one hiding behind the door to observe, right?"
The little boy nodded, but said: "But I don't dare to open the door at night. My mother said that there will be brain axes and daxiji at night, which specialize in eating children."
Lu Weiwei was also drunk, but for safety reasons, the middle-aged woman did the right thing. After all, she was a person who had to work overtime at night, so she had to educate her son clearly when she let her son stay at home alone.
"What else do you know?" Gu Chen also wanted to get some useful clues from this child's mouth.
However, no matter how Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei asked after that, the little boy just shook his head and seemed to have no intention of lying.
"Thank you very much for your cooperation." Gu Chen stood up, shook hands with the middle-aged woman and thanked her.
"I hope you can catch the murderer as soon as possible, so that I don't have to worry every day. I have asked for leave for today's evening shift, but if this continues, I will lose this job."
Life is very hard, and middle-aged women tell the truth.
After Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei expressed their stance, they returned to the scene of the crime.
"You two have been chatting there for a long time. Did you ask about anything new?" Officer Wang also came over immediately to find out.
"What is certain now is that at least three people came in last night." Gu Chen named three suspects based on the clues provided by the little boy.
"This is easy to handle." Officer Wang punched his palm and said, "As long as we can find out who has been in and out of this place during this time period, the murderer must be one of them."
