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

Chapter 319 Why did you come back?

The fact that my clothes and hair were wet from walking home in the rain from the Temple of the Goat's Horn explains why.

"How did you leave the police station?" Su Miaoyi asked Tian Min.

Tian Min gestured with her hands.

“She said that Deputy Director Zhao said there was nothing more for me to do and that I could go home, so I left. After leaving the police station, I originally intended to go straight home. But since I was already here and it was very close to the Sheep God Temple, I went to Beishan to pick flowers and pray to the Sheep God, and helped clean up the place.”

Duan Wenrui handed her a few sheets of paper.

Su Miaoyi glanced at it and saw that it was the document Tian Min had signed when she left the police station that afternoon, following the proper procedures.

“Can anyone prove that you’ve been at the Temple of the Ram’s Horn all this time?” Su Miaoyi asked.

Tian Min nodded.

The translator said, "The caretaker of the Temple of the Goat can attest that I have always been there."

Su Miaoyi looked at Duan Wenrui.

Duan Wenrui said, "It's not the one we met today, it's someone else. The two of them take turns on duty. The one we met was on night shift yesterday and is resting during the day today. He came to the police station from home today and went straight home afterwards; he didn't go to the Sheep God Temple."

Su Miaoyi nodded.

They had never met the other manager, did not know what had happened, and were unaware that the police were looking for Tian Min.

“The manager is next door,” Duan Wenrui and Su Miaoyi said.

Su Miaoyi nodded again and looked at Tian Min: "Have you met Zhao Yongliang before?"

Tian Min shook her head.

"Never seen it before?"

Tian Min shook her head again.

Su Miaoyi looked at her.

That's how it is, that's how it is.

She couldn't detect anything wrong with her face.

Apart from her few fears being somewhat formulaic, everything else was normal.

Seeing Tian Min like this, Su Miaoyi not only didn't doubt her, but even felt sorry for her and felt even more sorry for her.

I feel sorry for what she went through, and I feel sorry for her sitting here.

Su Miaoyi shifted her gaze from Tian Min's face, closed her eyes briefly, and quickly went through her thoughts.

Her answer was flawless.

But there are still many doubts, far too many doubts.

After leaving the interrogation room, Su Miaoyi went next door to meet another administrator of the Ram's Horn Temple.

"You mean she's been at the Temple of the Goat Horn all afternoon?" Su Miaoyi asked.

"Yes." The man nodded.

"What time is this afternoon that you mentioned?" Su Miaoyi asked.

The man frowned and thought for a moment: "I saw her around 5:30, because at 5:30 my TV show started airing. After I saw her, I went back to the duty room to make a cup of tea, and the show started just then."

Su Miaoyi: "."

"You saw her at 5:30, and you said she was there all afternoon?" Su Miaoyi asked.

"That Xiaomin told me that she's been here for ages and even greeted me, but I didn't hear her," the man said.

"You didn't see her go in?" Zhuang Yanzheng asked. "No," the man shook his head.

"Where was she when you saw her?" Zhuang Yanzheng asked.

She was wiping the table in the side room.

"Were there many people at the temple this afternoon? You didn't see her when she went there," Zhuang Yanzheng asked again.

“There weren’t many people at the temple in the afternoon, so I stayed in the duty room. After my lunch break, I listened to the radio, so engrossed that sometimes I couldn’t hear people talking to me,” the man said. “Anyway, the temple is open, and everything is open. If there’s nothing to do, I don’t leave the duty room much. I only go out to check if someone needs me. Besides, Tian Min was wiping things in the side room, and the door was closed, so who could see her? She gave me quite a fright when she came out.”

“Okay, we understand. You can go back now,” Duan Wenrui said.

"I'll sit here for a while. It's raining so hard outside, I can't walk," the man said.

"Row."

After leaving the interrogation room, they returned to their office.

“No one can prove that Tian Min has been in the temple all along,” Chu Xingrou said.

Duan Wenrui took a map of the town: "This is Beishan. According to Tian Min, she went north like this, and then went directly to the Yangjiao Temple from Beishan. Judging from the time she left the police station, she should have missed us, so we didn't run into her. That is, assuming everything she said is true."

"Her expression, her eyes, her movements really didn't seem like she was lying," Zhuang Yanzheng said.

"That's where the difficulty lies," Su Miaoyi said.

"Also, if this case has nothing to do with Tian Min, why did Zhao Yongliang take Tian Min away?" Lu Zhishen said, "There's no reason."

"Are you trying to mislead us? Make us think that Tian Min is guilty, and distract our police force?" Chu Xingrou said. "But if Tian Min is innocent, she will come back. How can you say that she distracts our police force? The premise for distracting the police force is that Tian Min is guilty, and Zhao Yongliang can take her away."

“And if Zhao Yongliang is determined to take her away, can Tian Min break free? Zhao Yongliang has also practiced martial arts; Tian Min is only strong, I'm afraid she can't beat him,” Su Miaoyi said.

"Tian Min is problematic," Chu Xingrou concluded.

"But why did she come back?" Su Miaoyi squinted.

"Is there anything left undone?" Duan Wenrui asked. "Is there anyone else you want to kill?"

“If it were me, I would run away and never come back to expose myself; it’s too dangerous. If I wanted to kill someone, I would secretly take care of them and then continue to disappear,” Su Miaoyi said.

Everyone fell silent for a moment.

"What was found in that house?" Zhuang Yanzheng asked them.

Lu Zhishen said, "The mask has been sent for testing. It came into contact with the killer's face, so some DNA might be extracted from it. We examined the black robe, and there's a tear in it."

He showed the photos to Su Miaoyi and the others.

"That black cloth hanging on the pile of tree branches in Tian Dajiang's parents' yard?" Su Miaoyi said.

“Yes,” Chu Xingrou said. “I’ve compared them, and they match perfectly.”

"The murderer hid there." Su Miaoyi asked疑惑地, "What was he doing hiding there? Who did he want to kill?"

"Could it be because the police were patrolling the streets the night the song was first sung, and the murderer had no choice but to hide there?" Duan Wenrui said.

"Why is it just at Tian Dajiang's house?" Chu Xingrou asked. "Is it a coincidence?"

“Tian Dajiang’s house is very close to the place where Tian Ming went to play cards,” Su Miaoyi thought. “What if the murderer wanted to kill Tian Ming that night? I remember that the place where they played cards didn’t stay up all night. It’s just that some folk songs were playing that night, and the card players didn’t dare to go out, so they didn’t go home all night.”

“Very likely,” Chu Xingrou said. “Tian Ming didn’t come out, and there were police on the street, so he hid there. There weren’t many people patrolling that night, and it wasn’t as strict as it is now, so it was actually quite easy to escape.”

“There are signs that someone lived in that house,” Lu Zhishen said. “The outer room was all dirt except for the floor, but the bed in the inner room was clean, indicating that someone had lived there. It must have been a temporary place to stay, hide, and sleep. We didn’t find any clothes, dishes, or other personal belongings.”

"The temporary hideout has been found. Is the murderer, who hasn't shown his face, still here?" Su Miaoyi asked.

(End of this chapter)