Seeing the crime scene flashbacks made me the darling of the police station.

Chapter 316 Is it him?

The four of them had just finished breakfast when Duan Wenrui and the others returned.

Zhuang Yanzheng called the shop where he had just bought breakfast, and the shop quickly delivered the breakfast.

"Do you still deliver food?" Chu Xingrou asked.

"If you pay more, we can deliver it," Zhuang Yanzheng said.

Chu Xingrou nodded.

“We were supposed to be the ones hosting them,” Duan Wenrui said.

"Why distinguish between you and me?" Zhuang Yanzheng said. "After you finish eating, everyone should rest for a bit. You've been exhausted all night."

As a result, they didn't even finish their meal before a disturbance broke out in front of the police station.

Duan Wenrui and Zhao Yongliang led their men out.

Su Miaoyi listened to a few words amidst the chaotic shouting.

It was Tian Shi and Tian Xuan who led a group of people to cause trouble in front of the police station, demanding that they release Tian Min.

"Why is it just you guys? Where are the others from out of town?! Why aren't they coming out?! Now they're hiding like cowards! What can my sister, a little girl, do?! Do they think our family is easy to bully? Do they think my sister can't speak properly?! They just want to bully her and slander her! Let my sister go! Let my sister go right now!"

"You can't find the murderer, so you want to make my sister a scapegoat? Impossible! You just want to take advantage of my sister because she can't speak! Are you trying to frame her for murder? So those three can leave and get promoted when they get back!"

"What can my sister do?! Using my sister to boost sales targets? No way!"

After listening to a few words, Su Miaoyi opened the door and wanted to go out.

Zhuang Yanzheng grabbed her arm: "Where are you going?"

Su Miaoyi looked at him and then sighed.

"Do you think they'll believe you if you try to reason with them?" Zhuang Yanzheng said. "These kinds of things are hard to explain. Going out will only make them more agitated, and they might even start fighting. That would be trouble for both sides. Let them resolve their own issues. The police station chief and the branch captain, this is nothing."

Su Miaoyi did not speak.

Zhuang Yanzheng said, "In the past, we could see things through the murderer's eyes, but we couldn't see anything from Tian Min?"

“No,” Su Miaoyi said. “And we didn’t see any images through Wan Shuang’s body or Wu An’s remains.”

"Perhaps some people's time has not yet come," Lu Zhishen said.

The commotion outside lasted for a long time. In the end, Tian Shi and Tian Xuan were both detained, and the rest of the people calmed down and dispersed.

Aunt Tianshi came to plead for their release.

Zhao Yongliang did not agree, and his aunt cried for a long time.

After she calmed down a bit, Duan Wenrui asked her some questions.

The morning passed quickly, and it was past three in the afternoon.

Su Miaoyi and the others asked Tian Min again, but there was still no progress.

She no longer showed fear when she heard the song and saw the mask.

Su Miaoyi began to realize that she had made a mistake in her judgment.

She had never encountered a criminal who, during interrogation, revealed no flaws whatsoever.

Not to mention those things that Qin Leyan forgot, she doesn't remember them.

But over the past year, I've also seen many criminals, and everyone has flaws.

But she couldn't find it in Tian Min.

She doubted her judgment.

She also began to question herself.

Does not having special abilities mean you can't solve cases?
Su Miaoyi started rubbing her hair again.

"Team Leader Zhuang." Zhao Yongliang came over and called out to Zhuang Yanzheng as soon as he saw him. "The manager of the Ram's Horn Temple is here. He said he wants to see Consultant Su."

Su Miaoyi immediately stood up: "Where?"

“It’s right in the lobby,” Zhao Yongliang said.

Su Miaoyi went to the hall immediately.

Zhuang Yanzheng and the other two caught up.

Upon arriving at the lobby, Su Miaoyi saw the man she had met at the Sheep God Temple the previous night. Before she could speak, the man said, "Officer Su, I remember now. I've seen that man before, the one you showed me in the portrait last night."

"Where?" Su Miaoyi asked.

“On the street behind the Temple of Aries,” the man said. “Just recently, about three or four months ago, I saw him once when I passed by that street. He was wearing a mask and a hat. But it was very windy that day, and his hat blew off, and I saw his eyes. That’s the man.”

“I felt like I recognized them when I saw them last night, but I couldn’t remember them. I thought about it all night and during the day. I suddenly remembered just now. It was these eyes, so I came over right away.”

“Please take us to the place where you met the man.”

The group followed the man to the street behind the Temple of the Goat.

The man walked to the approximate location: "I was standing around this spot. That person was standing there, his hat was blown away, he picked it up, and then I left."

"Is anyone living in this row?" Su Miaoyi asked, looking at the row of houses on the north side of the street. "The house with the big tree in front is empty, and the two houses on the far west side are also empty," the man said.

Su Miaoyi glanced at the locations of the three houses and then headed directly west.

When she arrived at the westernmost house, she looked at the doorway and the area under the western wall.

"Let's check whose house it is?" Duan Wenrui said to the people around him.

The man in the temple said, "If I remember correctly, this family sold the house more than two years ago, but I don't know who they sold it to."

"When we were checking footprints three years ago, was anyone home in this house?" Su Miaoyi asked Duan Wenrui.

Duan Wenrui opened his mouth, but couldn't answer.

He checked many places and found that some houses were indeed empty, but he didn't know the specific location or which household it was.

“I remember comparing footprints three years ago,” the man said. “There was no one living here then. No one lived here for seven or eight years; everyone moved to apartments in the city, and then this place was sold.”

Su Miaoyi put on gloves and checked the door lock.

It was covered in rust and looked like it hadn't been opened in a long time.

The entrance to the house and the west wall are paved with stone bricks.

Every now and then someone will clean the streets.

There was no sand or soil on the stone bricks, and no footprints were left.

Su Miaoyi tugged at the lock. Because of the rust, the lock was sturdy, but the latch on the wooden door had fallen off.

The door opened.

Su Miaoyi pushed open the door and went in.

The yard was also paved with stone bricks, and a lot of grass grew in the cracks between the bricks.

In the dark, shadowless place, some of the wooden planks had already become moldy.

Su Miaoyi and the others first looked at the west wall.

The area around the wall is very clean.

Because no one has lived here for a long time, there is a layer of soil on the stone bricks, some thick and some thin.

But the area around the wall was clean, with no dirt.

It was deliberately cleaned.

By stepping on it and climbing over the wall, you won't leave any footprints.

Except along the walls, there were scratch marks on the floor in other areas leading into the house.

Based on their location, the footprints must have been erased.

It seems that someone has been coming and going in this yard and this house several times recently.

After taking photos of the outside, the group went inside.

The wooden planks creaked as soon as you stepped on them.

But the floor was very clean; it must have been wiped down within the last week.

Besides the floor, everything on the cabinets and other surfaces was covered in dust.

There were two rooms in total. After looking outside, they went into the inner room.

The door opened.

Everyone was startled.

Chu Xingrou clenched her hands tightly, gritted her teeth to stop herself from shouting, and took a few steps back.

Su Miaoyi also trembled.

Lu Zhishen gasped.

Zhuang Yanzheng uttered half of a curse, then swallowed the other half.

In the very center of the room hung a long black robe, with a red ghost mask hanging at the very top.

Zhuang Yanzheng stepped forward and touched it, confirming that there was no one inside the black robe and mask.

Just as he breathed a sigh of relief, Duan Wenrui's phone suddenly rang again.

Suddenly, a very loud noise startled the group, who hadn't quite settled in yet.

Duan Wenrui answered the phone, then looked at Su Miaoyi and said with a shocked expression, "We found out who the buyer of this house is, Zhao Yongliang."

　Goodnight everybody.

　　I don't know why writing this made me feel a chill.

　　I'll correct the typos tomorrow.

　　good night.

　　(End of this chapter)