When I heard Wen Xin's voice, I sat up. There was also a noise on Crazy Brother's bed.
"What's the matter?" Jiang Zi asked.
"Bah!" The old cat quickly turned on the light in the room.
It turns out that no one was sleeping very deeply.
We started to put on our clothes. Lao Mao and I slept on the lower bunk. We moved relatively quickly. In less than half a minute, we were already dressed, opened the door and walked out.
I was about to knock on Wen Xin's door, but the door opened directly. Wen Xin's face was a little bad, and she looked like she was in shock.
"What's wrong?" I asked.
"Someone was outside my window just now." Wen Xin's voice was trembling.
This matter is not trivial. It’s not even bright yet, how can there be anyone outside the window?
Crazy Brother and Jiang Zi also came over. After hearing this, Crazy Brother rushed into Wen Xin’s room and looked out the window for a while. After coming out, he asked me to stay with Wen Xin. The three of them arrived with flashlights and batons.
Go outside the police station to find the person just now.
The police station is a small courtyard with an iron gate. In order to ensure the police's own safety, the iron gate is locked at night and no one from outside can get in. Crazy Brother woke up the police on duty and opened the door.
After they left, I learned the details of what happened from Wen Xin.
Wen Xin has a habit of sleeping in a strange place with the lights on, otherwise she won't be able to sleep.
Last night, there was no desk lamp in the room, so she connected her phone to the charger and turned on the flashlight function to make a simple lamp.
Our room was on the first floor. The window was a sliding track with a protective fence installed outside. Before going to bed, Wen Xin opened the window a crack.
There was a table in the room by the window and the bed by the door. Wen Xin put her cell phone on the table so that there was light in the room and the light would not dazzle her eyes.
Wen Xin didn't sleep deeply at night and would wake up from time to time. When she woke up for the last time, she saw that it was already six forty and was ready to get up. She sat up to get dressed. After putting on her top, she lifted her head naturally.
When she started to move, she suddenly discovered that the window that had only been opened a crack had been opened slightly, and there was a face looking at her outside the window. She was so frightened that she screamed out.
"Have you seen that face clearly?" I asked immediately.
Wen Xin frowned, shook her head and said: "After all, the flash of the mobile phone is not very bright, and it was dark outside. I only saw a blurry face. After I shouted, he disappeared."
"It's not bad! I ran to the police station and took a peek!" I was very angry when I saw Wen Xin's frightened look.
When the director heard the commotion, he also got up and asked us what happened. Wen Xin recounted the story again.
After listening, the director said: "Nine times out of ten, it's that idiot Xu Hai."
"How do you know?" I felt strange.
"You don't know that Xu Hai yearns for school life. Every morning and noon, when school starts and ends, there is always his figure at the school gate. But I often see him at noon. I usually can't get up so early in the morning.
Very few.”
After that, the director looked at his watch and said, "Look, it's almost seven o'clock, which is exactly the time when students start to enter the school."
"If it's really Xu Hai, it doesn't matter. I was just worried that that person was the murderer, so I was a little scared." Wen Xin said.
"It should be Xu Hai. The murderer wouldn't be so stupid to show up." I comforted her.
By this time, the sky was getting a little brighter, and there was noise outside the police station. We walked to the door and saw that it was Crazy Brother and the others escorting someone over.
Looking from a distance, the man seemed a little uncooperative. The director and I also stepped forward to help. As we got closer, I recognized that the man was indeed Xu Hai.
"This kid runs so fast!" Jiang Zi gasped.
"He's also very strong!" As Lao Mao spoke, he tried hard to control Xu Hai's struggling hand.
Xu Hai was still muttering: "Bad guy! Bad guy! Beat the bad guy!"
"Xu Hai, they are not bad people, they are also police officers." The director stepped forward and said to Xu Hai with a smile.
When Xu Hai saw the director, his mood softened a bit and his struggle was not so severe. The director took Xu Hai's hand from Jiang Zi's and asked with a smile: "Do you want to go to the school gate again?"
"I, I want to go to school." Xu Hai replied, his face regained the look of a child.
The director winked at Crazy Brother, and Crazy Brother and the other three of them let go of their hands and walked over to Wen Xin and I. Xu Hai's mood further stabilized. It seemed that he really only had feelings for strangers.
hostility.
Back at the police station, the director took Xu Hai to a room and asked him alone. We were all waiting in the duty room.
About twenty minutes later, the director entered the duty room and asked the police on duty to send Xu Hai home.
"Let's ask clearly." The director said to Wen Xin: "Xu Hai was going to school. When he passed by your room, he saw a light inside. He was curious, so he ran over and looked inside. He thought the slit was too small.
He pushed the window a little further with his hand. He would walk from home to school almost every day at this time, and what happened today was just an accident."
"Well, thank you, Director, for causing you trouble." Wen Xin said softly.
"It's not a bother, it's fine. You can rest for a while. I'll take you to town for breakfast at eight o'clock," the director said.
At this moment, a harsh phone ring rang. The director quickly walked to the duty desk and answered the phone: "Hello, Qingshan Police Station."
After a few seconds, the director's expression suddenly changed: "What! You wait at the door, we will be there soon!"
The ringing of the phone meant there was an alarm, and the director's reaction made my heart tighten, as if something serious had happened.
After hanging up the phone, the director told us: "One of the workers on duty at the lumber factory died last night."
This sentence hit us like a thunderbolt, and the five members of the task force were stunned on the spot.
"Let's go!" Crazy Brother was the first to react and issued the order in a deep voice.
Two police cars drove towards the processing plant at high speed. This situation happened twice in one day, but the things they dealt with were completely different. Feng Rong's incident was considered a dispute at best, but now it was another murder.
Wen Xin and I were riding in the director's car. On the way, he told us that the person who called the police was Miao Quan, a worker in the lumber factory, and the person who died was Miao Yuan.
"Miaoyuan? Mouse?" I asked with a frown.
Mouse said yesterday that it was his turn to be on duty last night, but he didn't expect it to be the last night of his life.
The director replied: "Yes, that's him."
"Did the reporter say how he died?" Wen Xin asked, thinking about the connection between the two cases.
"Miao Quan's voice was shaking violently. He only said that he died miserably and that time was precious. I didn't ask him in detail. Let's go and see later." The director replied.
As we approached the lumber factory, under the illumination of the car lights, I saw a man standing at the door, waving to us.
We parked the car at the door, and after getting out of the car, I saw that Miao Quan's face was pale and his body was shaking. He was obviously too frightened.
Crazy Brother asked Miao Quan to lead the way. He took us to the door of the dormitory, but refused to go in. There were six of us, so in order not to damage the scene, only Crazy Brother and I entered the room.
The light in the room was on, and there were three iron beds inside. Two were on the left and one on the right after entering the door. They were all bunk beds. There were six bunks in total. There were quilts on each bunk. It seemed that every worker's bed was
is fixed.
There was a person lying on the lower bunk of the first bed on the left. The quilt that was supposed to cover him had been lifted open. The quilt was soaked with blood, and the concrete floor under the bed was also covered with a layer of blood. There was something on the blood.