Chapter 31: The Viper Murder Case (10) Cocoon
Sang Luo looked at the house again and again, anxiously searching for clues. There was only one bedroom and one living room here, adjacent to No. 8 on the east side and No. 10 on the west side. She had suspected that it was the holes in the roof before, but Nie Yu had patched up those holes and cracks a year ago.
Sang Luo raised her head and glanced at the roof. The roof was mottled and had a lot of traces of repairs. She was suddenly shocked and instantly understood everything -
Holes can be filled.
The murderer is not a fool. He will not sit and wait for the hole to be discovered by the police. He can easily fill the hole before the police arrive.
The hole through which the snake came in may have been patched up with some material.
After figuring this out, Sang Luo's mind suddenly became clear. She was no longer obsessed with looking for a hole in the wall, but instead began to look for traces of repairs.
This is an ordinary red brick and cement house. In the past, the walls were painted white. However, with the age of the house and problems such as leaks, the wall paint has almost fallen off, revealing the red brick and cement wall inside. In this case, if the murderer wants to repair the hole, cement would naturally be a better choice, as cement can better blend in with the original wall.
At this time, several days had passed since the crime occurred. If the murderer really used cement to fill the hole, the cement would have dried and there would not be much difference between it and the original wall. So Sang Luo gave up starting with the color of the cement and began to consider the shape.
If the poisoner was Nie Yu, then he didn't need to pass through the cave entrance to poison the snake. He could just release the poisonous snake when he went out in the morning. Therefore, the clue of "cave" means that the murderer is most likely not Nie Yu.
If the murderer is the neighbor on both sides of the house, it is known that they have not entered the scene. If they want to fill the hole, they can only fill it from the direction of their own home. They cannot enter He Taohua's house to "smooth it out", so the cement surface must not be very beautiful.
There is a lot of cement attached to the red bricks on the wall. Generally, cement used in construction will be smoothed after being applied, so what Sang Luo is looking for is cement that has not been smoothed.
Sang Luo searched carefully, this time checking each brick one by one, and she almost looked for it with a magnifying glass. After half an hour, she finally found a red brick next to the bed in the bedroom. The center of the brick was filled with cement. The surface of the cement was rough and round, just the size of a one-yuan coin.
This is the [hole] that Sang Luo has been searching for.
Sang Luo closed her eyes and cheered in her heart. Hard work pays off and she finally found it!
Behind this wall is No. 10 Chuncha Lane, where Zheng Wutong's family lives.
Combined with the description of the game shop owner, Sang Luo was almost certain that the murderer was Zheng Longmen!
Without time to get excited, she took out her cell phone and called her master to tell him about her latest discovery. Now there is evidence that Zheng Longmen is related to the case, and she can finally get a search warrant!
Ma Shi Tu had already gotten off work, but turned back because of Sang Luo's call. He was also surprised that Sang Luo could make such a discovery. With the help of his master, Sang Luo got the search warrant. Xiao Hu was also called back to work overtime. The three of them drove to No. 10 Chuncha Lane.
After entering the main door, Sang Luo quickly glanced at the living room. What surprised her was that the living room was a lot messier than before. There were several obvious footprints on the floor, and a plate of dried fruits on the coffee table was scattered and no one had cleaned it up.
"This family has been in a state of confusion recently," Sang Luo concluded. "They have something on their mind, and because of it, they have even ignored their obsessive-compulsive disorder and mysophobia."
"Of course, knowing that his son is a murderer, who wouldn't be upset?" Yuan Xiaohu continued, "I can't believe that Zheng Longmen, who doesn't even dare to fart in front of us, can actually do such a thing as murder?"
Ma Shi Tu was somewhat skeptical: "What is the conflict between Zheng Longmen and He Taohua? What is his motive for murder?"
"Let's go in and take a look first." Sang Luo walked inside. Room 10 was larger than Room 9. There were two bedrooms, and both doors were closed. Sang Luo pushed one of the bedrooms, but it didn't move. She tried the other one, but it was the same.
"The door is locked." She signaled Yuan Xiaohu with her eyes to take action.
Yuan Xiaohu took out his tools and said in confusion: "This is really strange. We are all family, why do they lock the door? They are so cautious about their own family. Do they have gold hidden in the house and are afraid that someone will come in and steal it in the middle of the night?"
He began to unlock the door, noting some tiny marks on the door. He said, "This door has been opened before, violently. Then a new lock was installed."
He glanced at the other side: "This door too."
Sang Luo felt it was a bit strange that the child's room was violently unlocked. She could probably guess what was going on. Many parents with strong control desires would not allow their children to lock the door and would even smash the locks for this. Zheng Longmen's parents happened to be such people, but his parents' bedroom was also violently unlocked. What was going on?
Without time to think, Yuan Xiaohu led them to open the first door. When the door opened, the three of them were stunned -
It didn't look like a bedroom, but more like a "cocoon".
The desk was piled with thick books all the way to the ceiling, and the room was filled with papers everywhere: test papers, draft papers, papers with wrong answers, essays... layer upon layer, on the floor, on the bed, and on the four walls. In order to ensure that Zheng Longmen could see the test questions as soon as he raised his head, there were even papers on the ceiling!
The family used test papers to paste the walls. No one knew how many layers they had. When several people entered the house, they felt that the area of the house had become smaller. Zheng Longmen's small desk was next to the wall, right in the middle of the test papers. These papers filled with test questions were like silk, wrapping Zheng Longmen layer by layer, and finally completely wrapped into a cocoon.
"Oh my god, it's all words!" Yuan Xiaohu looked at the densely packed words and felt a little nauseous. "At a glance, this room is full of words. There is not a single blank space!"
Ma Shi Tu also shook his head and sighed, "It seems that this couple really wants their son to be successful. Even the name Zheng Longmen contains great expectations, but expectations are often pressure at the same time."
"This place really looks like a cocoon," said Sang Luo.
For students of this generation, the college entrance examination is like a huge cocoon. After the college entrance examination, Zheng Longmen was admitted to a good university. That should have been his moment of "breaking out of the cocoon and becoming a butterfly", but because of his father's face, he was forced to repeat the year, again and again, and eventually became a caterpillar that could not break out of the cocoon and died in the pupa.
Yuan Xiaohu was terrified: "If I were to live in this house, I wouldn't be able to survive even a single day!"
Sang Luo didn't say anything else. She went into the house and started working. She directly found the location where the small hole was. This location was blocked by Zheng Longmen's desk and could not be seen from the outside.
"I think Zheng Longmen's parents don't know about the existence of this hole," Sang Luo analyzed. "His parents are so strict with him that they don't allow him to waste a minute on anything other than studying. If they knew about this hole, they should have blocked it long ago."
Ma Shi Tu also looked closer around the hole and said, "This is not formed naturally, but was deliberately dug out by someone, and it looks like it has been dug for some time."
"Could it be that Zheng Longmen had been planning to kill someone for a long time?" Yuan Xiaohu guessed.
Sang Luo had another guess: "No, I think this hole must have had other uses before the murder happened. Think about it, this hole is the size of a one-yuan coin, just enough to put an eye on it, and the other end of the hole corresponds to He Taohua's bed--"
Sang Luo didn't say the next words, but everyone understood that this hole was used for peeping, and Zheng Longmen had been peeping at He Taohua.
Zheng Longmen's parents couldn't buy him a mobile phone, so he had no entertainment and was locked in this small room day after day. In this room, his only entertainment was to peep at the woman next door.
Although he had never said hello and didn't even know her name, Zheng Longmen watched this woman every day, watching her change clothes, watching her feed her child, watching her apply the cheapest cream on her face...
Yuan Xiaohu and Ma Shi Tu looked at each other, and both felt that what Sang Luo said made sense. Sang Luo couldn't help but sigh in his heart that He Taohua's family was really unlucky to have such neighbors. It would have been fine if only one family was peeping, but actually both families were peeping. They were really a pair of Crouching Dragon and Phoenix!
As he was thinking, Sang Luo suddenly remembered a sentence Nie Yu said during the interrogation -
"Before, there were only two of us living here, the rent was cheap, and the neighbors were weird, so we put up with it. Now that we have a child, I'm afraid they will have a bad influence on the child, so I must move out!"
Nie Yu used the word "they", and he was not referring to just Fu Ainong alone. He had long known that there was something wrong with Zheng Wutong's family!
What was the problem? Did Nie Yu discover Zheng Longmen was spying?
Sang Luo shook his head. It was useless to daydream. If he had any questions, he should ask them in person. They were already in the bureau anyway.
"Master, I want to go back and interrogate those suspects!" Sang Luo said proactively.
Yuan Xiaohu chuckled, "Why are we still interrogating them? Hasn't the murderer been found out? Look, with this hole, everything makes sense. Zheng Longmen was spying on people, and was probably discovered. People scolded him, and he got angry and got a snake and threw it in, killing the mother and daughter!"
Sang Luo shook his head: "The truth may not be like this. I tend to believe that He Taohua and her family did not find the hole. First of all, if He Taohua really found it and reprimanded Zheng Longmen, why didn't Nie Yu mention it at all during the interrogation? Secondly, if they found it, they should have taken the initiative to block the hole and not give Zheng Longmen the opportunity to continue looking."
Ma Shi Tu also agreed: "Sang Luo is right. Let the suspect speak for himself as to the specific reason. Without further ado, we will go back and interrogate Zheng Longmen. Everyone, please work hard and work overtime. Let's solve this case tonight to comfort the deceased's soul in heaven."
Before leaving, several people went to Zheng Wutong and his wife's bedroom for a routine search. They thought they would not find anything in their bedroom, but the moment the door opened, they were still surprised -
There were many knife marks in the couple's bedroom, which could be seen on the walls, wardrobe, and even on the bedside.
"Did the fight between these two couples become so intense?" Yuan Xiaohu smacked his lips in astonishment. "They look so gentle on the outside, but they actually used kitchen knives in the fight?"
Sang Luo didn't say anything. The moment she saw these traces, a bold and crazy guess emerged in her mind.
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