Chapter 444: Script Killing 2 Sweetheart Nail Salon
In the video, the girl with dreadlocks asked Jiang Feifei, "What are you writing?" Jiang Feifei said, "Nothing, just practicing calligraphy. When I'm done, please put it away for me and I'll continue writing next time I come."
Liu Wangxue handed the paper in her hand to Xu Qingsong. There was cursive English written on it. She asked, "Is this it?" She had just seen it when she was rummaging through the drawer of the nail art table. She thought it was printed, but when she looked again, it turned out to be handwritten. She thought it was very beautiful and wanted to share it with Xu Qingsong so that he could appreciate it too.
Xu Qingsong took it in his hand, looked at it, and asked Liu Wangxue: "Anything else?"
Liu Wangxue shook her head: "No more, just this one."
Xu Qingsong looked at the perpetual calendar electronic clock hanging on the wall of the store, then looked at the time on the surveillance camera, and judged: "Then this should be the thing that Jiang Feifei just mentioned."
The others who were still looking for clues heard it and gathered around: "What is it?"
Xu Qingsong handed the paper to them and said, "This needs to be deciphered."
A string of letters that seems to have no pattern.
Li Yu and Tao Huayu took it in their hands and tried to guess how to pronounce it based on the letters, but it was obviously wrong and they couldn't read any further.
Du Yunkai suddenly had an idea and said to Xu Qingsong, "Try the input method."
Xu Qingsong opened the document: "I think it looks like Wubi." He was used to using the Wubi input method.
As Xu Qingsong spoke, he changed the input method on his computer and typed on the keyboard according to the letters on the paper, and the information gradually emerged.
"The anti-aging products from Sweetheart Labs are carcinogenic. The evidence is in the safe in the boss' office." Liu Wangxue read along word by word, and after finishing, he asked Wenxi, "What does Jiang Feifei mean by telling you this? Have you been taking it?"
Wenxi shook her head: "I don't know. I was just studying macarons and haven't started looking for information yet." After she finished speaking, she looked at the others and asked, "What about you?"
Du Yunkai, Li Yu and Tao Huayu also shook their heads. Tao Huayu pointed at the computer and said, "Before I had time to look through it carefully, they found this."
So everyone acted quickly and searched everywhere in the store where they thought something could be hidden.
Xu Qingsong reminded everyone: "We have to hurry up. The game time limit is three hours, and more than twenty minutes have passed now."
He checked the computer again, and apart from the video, there were two Excel spreadsheets. One was the membership card record, which had Jiang Feifei's name on it. The recharge amount was quite large, tens of thousands; the other was a list of items in stock in the store.
Liu Wangxue checked the desk at the front desk. The desk also had drawers and cabinets. When the cabinet doors were opened, they were full of manicure supplies, and the drawers contained manicure design drawings.
Wenxi went to check the cabinet on the wall. It was full of nail polish. There was a door next to the cabinet. She turned the doorknob and found it was locked. "There is a door here that needs a key."
Li Yu went to check the workbench and found that the drawer was also full of manicure tools.
Tao Huayu rummaged through the odds and ends on the table, even the boxes and flower pots were included.
Du Yunkai checked the locker at the door and found a key from the top drawer: "I found the key."
There was nothing found elsewhere, so everyone gathered around immediately after hearing it. When they opened the door and went in, it was a bedroom, which was completely different from the decoration style of the store. The decoration style here was Gothic and dark.
Liu Wangxue glanced around and said to Wenxi, "Xixi, I have a hunch that your character is probably not a good person."
Wenxi agreed: "The bedroom is a private space and basically reflects a person's personality traits."
Li Yu had already opened the drawer of the bedside table and took out a photo frame. He turned to look at everyone excitedly and showed the photo: "No way, is this true? Look--"
Du Yunkai was looking through the desk next to the bedside table. He turned his head and smiled, then said to Wenxi, "Oh, this is really fate."
Liu Wangxue and the others came over and took a look. In the photo frame was a casual photo of a couple. Two lines of words on the left and right explained the identities of the couple respectively - "nail salon owner" and "laboratory owner".
Wenxi was also surprised by this fate. She took the photo frame and glanced at the back. She wrote a year, month and day, which was probably the date of the photo shoot. She patted Du Yunkai and said mischievously, "Blind guess, money and sex transaction."
Du Yunkai was dissatisfied: "Can't this be true love?"
"Take a look." Wen Xi put the photo frame on the bedside table, turned around, squatted beside Du Yunkai's legs, and opened the cabinet of the desk.
Xu Qingsong was a little envious and said to Liu Wangxue, "Could it be that our characters also have a love story?"
Liu Wangxue followed his words and said, "It would be great if this fate really happened. This year will be a perfect end to the year."
Tao Huayu attacked the two couples indiscriminately: "Don't think it's so beautiful. Have you forgotten the posters in the hall? My intuition tells me that the love line here is very likely not a good thing."
Li Yu teased: "Brother Huayu, your jealous face is showing again."
Tao Huayu raised his hand and patted him on the head: "What jealousy? I'm just telling the truth."
"Found it!" Li Yu took out a file bag from the bottom drawer of the bedside table, pulled out the papers inside, looked at the top one and read, "Diagnosis report, liver cancer, patient, mother of the nail salon owner."
After reading the information, he put this one away and flipped through the next ones. They were all hospital examination forms and hospitalization forms. When he saw the last one, Li Yu was surprised: "Funeral service bill - this mother has passed away!"
Thinking of the message Jiang Feifei had just left, he asked, "Could it be that he was taking anti-aging drugs?"
"Keep your opinion to yourself for now." Tao Huayu said.
Everyone did not stop searching while listening to Li Yunian. Du Yunkai found a diary with a combination lock from the drawer of the desk and said, "Six-digit combination. Did anyone see any relevant clues just now?"
Wenxi stood up, picked up the photo frame on the bedside table, turned it over to show him the back, and there were exactly six numbers on it: "Try this."
Du Yunkai tried it both ways, but couldn't open it: "No."
Keep looking.
Xu Qingsong and Liu Wangxue were searching the closet and found a storage box from the bottom drawer. They opened it and saw a yearbook and a photo album inside.
Liu Wangxue was flipping through the yearbook when she suddenly saw a page and walked towards Wenxi: "Xixi, then you and Jiang Feifei were high school classmates."
Wenxi came over to look at it with her, reading what was written on it: "Oh, it's still 'Best friends for life', and the dream is actually 'Marry into a wealthy family together'."
Tao Huayu was rummaging through the lockers next to the wardrobe. Hearing this, he smiled and said, "It seems that dreams are just dreams after all. Neither of you has realized them. I just saw the house where Liang Bojun and Jiang Feifei live. It doesn't look like a wealthy family—"
"No," Liu Wangxue retorted, "Xixi and the boss of the lab are in a relationship, so she has at least one foot in the rich family, right?"
Du Yunkai found other information related to numbers and agreed while trying the password: "Indeed, my laboratory is solely funded by me. It would be impossible to open it without strong financial resources."
Wenxi smiled and said, "It's a deal, a deal. My intuition tells me that the relationship between these two people is definitely not just a simple relationship between lovers. There must be some secrets that cannot be told to others."
Liu Wangxue and Wenxi finished flipping through the yearbook, but didn't see any useful information, so they closed it and put it back in the storage box. Xu Qingsong also finished flipping through the photo album and called everyone over: "Take a look at this, it's interesting."
The first photo in the album is a graduate student graduation photo. Standing on the far left of the first row is Jiang Feifei, and on her left is the "nail salon owner". Behind them stands Liang Bojun, with one of his hands on Jiang Feifei's shoulder. The date on the back of the photo is 35/06/15.
"Sister Wenxi, you three were classmates when you were studying for your master's degree," said Li Yu.
"What a deep bond we have." Wenxi sighed.
"But something is wrong," Liu Wangxue pondered. "You and Jiang Feifei are good friends, and you are in the same class as Liang Bojun. They are still together. Why was he so cold to you at Liang Bojun's house just now?"
Tao Huayu guessed: "No way, a melodramatic love story? You like him, he likes her, they love each other, and then you can't get the love you want..."
"This option can be ruled out," Xu Qingsong said. "If this is the case, Jiang Feifei would not have asked Wenxi for help."
He flipped the page and found a group photo of four people. The head of the boy on the far right was cut off, leaving one boy and two girls. Liang Bojun stood on the far left, followed by Jiang Feifei and the owner of the nail salon. There were two dates on the back of the photo, 35/08/28 and 39/07/08.
Liu Wangxue asked Wenxi: "Who was cut off?"
Wenxi joked: "My boyfriend at the time?"
Xu Qingsong turned the photo over and saw a line of words on the back that read "You are the one who deserves to die."
Li Yu read it once and muttered, "Could it be related to the victim who has not yet appeared?"
Everyone then looked at the photos that followed, which were mostly group photos of the nail salon owner and her mother, taken when she was a child, a teenager, and an adult. The mother's appearance aged when her daughter was in adolescence, then suddenly became younger, and then she was almost indistinguishable from her adult daughter. Both mother and daughter dressed in a girlish style, looking pure and lovely, and looked more like sisters.
Then there were several solo photos of the daughter, with a sudden change in style to smoky rock, dark lolita and sexy mermaid costume.
The date 42/09/10 was also written on the back of the first photo with a sudden change in style. Du Yunkai had just tried the diary's combination lock with the previous three dates, but none of them opened. He tried again with this string of numbers: "It opened."
The first entry of the diary, apart from the date, was filled with “hahahaha” almost all over the paper. The last line had a few large and bold characters written on the horizontal lines above and below, “I’m finally free.”
Du Yunkai looked at the date in the upper right corner: "Hey, it's the same day as the unlock code."
Xu Qingsong took out the photo and asked everyone to look at the date.
Li Yu suddenly turned around and took out the funeral service bill from the bedside table and showed it to everyone, pointing to the date on the lower right corner: "It's the same day as on this bill!"
Everyone looked at Wenxi at the same time.
I continued to flip through the diary. The dates were intermittent, and it could basically be considered a weekly diary. The content recorded was all about redecorating the bedroom, trying out new styles, and some fragmentary memories of my mother.
"That guy didn't stop loving you because of your appearance. He simply didn't love you anymore, so he kicked you away!"
"You can't control men, so you want to get self-satisfaction by controlling me, bah!"
"You want me to get plastic surgery to help you find a rich husband? You must be crazy about money!"
"I have a question," Tao Huayu raised his hand and asked Wenxi, "Wasn't your dream in your yearbook to marry into a wealthy family?"
As he spoke, Du Yunkai turned the page of his diary: "The answer is probably here."
There was only a slightly longer paragraph in the diary about my mother's memories, which read: "I didn't expect that the boss of the laboratory would like me. You are so happy because you don't have to spend money to buy the sky-high anti-aging drugs anymore. You can take the ones that are not on the market, and you can also go to the laboratory for free physical examinations. You are so happy! I am also very happy because I want to use his money and power to get rid of you."
Liu Wangxue looked at Du Yunkai with sympathy: "Oh my God, it really is a deal."
Du Yunkai covered his heart and acted like he was injured.
After reading the diary, everyone expressed their opinions to Wenxi.
Tao Huayu: "So, you are happy about your mother's death."
Du Yunkai: "You are the real you now."
Liu Wangxue: "You were controlled and suppressed before. After your mother died, you felt a new life."
"Now you can think about the dark side," Xu Qingsong pointed at Du Yunkai, "You just kept saying that you had a deal with him, and the diary also confirmed it. You actually know whether this anti-aging drug can cause cancer."
Li Yu was horrified: "Jiang Feifei asked the wrong person for help!"
Wenxi followed this line of thought and said, "According to this hypothesis, part of my branch plot has been solved. My parents are divorced and my mother raised me alone. She may have been overly concerned about her appearance because of the negative comments she received from her ex-husband. She not only cares about her own appearance, but also about mine. In addition, she is probably a person with a strong control desire. I can only suppress myself in front of her. I may have thought about resisting, but I couldn't. Later, I met the boss of the laboratory. After being with him, my mother gained certain conveniences. However, there is insufficient evidence to conclude whether her cancer is related to anti-aging drugs. But she died, and I am very happy, there is no doubt about it. It is very likely that I have always hoped that she would die soon."
After Wenxi finished speaking, the electronic watch on her wrist flashed. She pressed the green button and the progress bar on it updated the data: "Character plot completeness 40%."
Liu Wangxue helped her sort out the rest of the story: "The rest of the story is about your relationship with the male and female protagonists, your relationship with Boss Du, and the real cause of your mother's death."
Xu Qingsong asked everyone, "Have you found any other relevant information?" Seeing everyone shaking their heads, he said, "Then let's go out and check the lab."
"There is so little information given." Li Yu said.
Everyone discussed as they went out.
This is a long T-shaped street. The nail salon is at the corner, opposite Liang Bojun and Jiang Feifei's home, and the laboratory is at the bottom of the T. After exiting the nail salon, turn right and walk to the end.
On the way, we saw Li Yu’s dessert shop, Tao Huayu’s flower shop, Xu Qingsong’s restaurant, Liu Wangxue’s beauty salon, and some other shops.
Li Yu looked at them one by one: "All the shops here are named after 'Sweetheart'."
Liu Wangxue pointed at the store's house number and said, "Because this street is called 'City North Sweetheart Street'."
(End of this chapter)
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