when the moon whispers

Chapter 506: Rose-Remains (Part )

Case Seven Rose
Fifteen Remaining (Part 2)

"However, as a chemical raw material, turpentine can be mixed with chloroform, ether or acetic acid in any proportion, and its application scenarios are also relatively wide. It can be used in industrial production processes such as art glass, paint, mothballs, rosin, and pharmaceuticals..."

Zhu Silai paused for a moment, raised his eyelids and looked at the master and apprentice sitting at the coffee table across the table, who were reacting in the same way. He pursed his lips and smiled very lightly: "Of course, we cannot rule out the possibility that this keychain has been around in a factory workshop... But if we consider the shipping address on the express delivery slip and the actual factory conditions around Sheng'an, I am more inclined to believe that the smell of the oily substance on this keychain was stained from an object that is more easily touched--"

"Hiss—" Gu Xing bit into the quicksand bun and was startled by the burning sensation of the filling that came out. "Something that we come into contact with everyday... paint? Camphor balls? Rosin?"

"painting."

Zhu Silai grabbed the tissue on the table and threw it into Gu Xing's arms on the small sofa. He turned his head to look at Jiang Mo's expression of surprise and loss of control, and tilted his head slightly: "What's wrong? - When your master was transferred from the district police station to the city police criminal investigation detachment, there was a teacher from the art academy who was pursuing him. He was an oil painter and asked your master out for dinner. He also took a walk in the art academy and came back. When he shook his clothes, you could smell the smell of turpentine on him..."

"You're the one who got a little allergic when your hands got dirty with a piece of clothing? I thought you said you were allergic to that piece of clothing to express your anger at me." Gu Xing was hit by Zhu Silai's paper towel, which was obviously mixed with personal emotions. He covered his nose and rubbed it twice. He first followed Zhu Silai's concern to glance at the complex emotions that flashed across Jiang Mo's face. He hesitated for two seconds and didn't rush to ask further questions. He just picked up Director Zhu's gossip and smacked his tongue, "You've been talking about this for many years... You always mentioned it to Lao Gao, saying something about good luck in love, that stuff is all evil..."

Zhu Silai raised his eyebrows and said, "What can I be angry about? Angry that you went out to date a female teacher and didn't eat enough, and then came back late at night and didn't sleep and pulled me out of my bed in the dormitory to go out for a midnight snack with you?"

“Look—you’re still not angry… Yeah, you’re holding a grudge—” Gu Xing looked at Zhu Silai’s pretentious expression and smiled helplessly, holding up his chopsticks and nodding lightly, “After arresting the female teacher, didn’t I treat you to a big meal? That was a few years ago, and the buffet was several hundred per person!”

Jiang Mo's mind was tense over the word "oil painting". He was distracted and pulled back to his thoughts after hearing Gu Xing's joke. He looked up at Zhu Silai who was pouting and blinked: "It's not a crime to go to such lengths for a date, right? Why did they arrest him——"

"That female teacher was an accomplice to a murder."

Zhu Silai squinted at Jiang Mo, who was full of amusement, and tapped her forehead with the folder in his hand. "The love, hatred and vengeance in this case dragged on for a long time. It is said that after the case was solved, it was almost used as a typical case for your police academy lectures. Later, Director Gao felt that your master almost fell into someone's honey trap and embarrassed himself, so he hid the case and you students had no chance to find out about it."

"Did Lao Gu make a mistake?" Jiang Mo's eyebrows curved, and she quickly caught the disposable chopsticks that her master threw at the back of her head, asking her to stop asking questions: "Love, hate, and vengeance... love killing?"

"How can he sit so steadily on the sofa after making a mistake?" Zhu Silai waved his hands, twisting his fingertips and choosing a concise sentence: "He took the initiative to pursue your master's female teacher and hugged her thigh in order to get close to her and get information." Jiang Mo's eyes turned: "So the murder happened before Lao Gu got lucky in love?"

Zhu Silai nodded. "To put it simply, the girlfriend of the female teacher's cousin accidentally discovered that the cousins ​​had an improper relationship. In order to confirm their suspicions, the three of them went out together, and then had a quarrel in a camping site deep in the mountains. The cousin got drunk and injured someone, and then, considering his and his cousin's reputation, he strangled his girlfriend to death and waited for an opportunity to destroy the body. Although the female teacher did not directly participate in the murder, she later took the initiative to suggest that the body be covered in a plaster statue and hidden in the abandoned plaster statue storage room in the old campus of the Academy of Fine Arts in the suburbs where there were few people."

"The girlfriend of the female teacher's cousin... is quite messy." Jiang Mo frowned, unable to explain: "But if she was hidden so well, how did she find her way to Old Gu?"

"A vicious poisoning case occurred at the old campus of the Academy of Fine Arts at the same time. During that period, the police had been visiting the school. The female teacher was terrified at the time and couldn't move the plaster statue, so she tried to get closer to your master and keep an eye on the criminal investigation... If necessary, it would be better to take precautions in advance."

"But the female teacher didn't succeed. The body, which had been rotting in the plaster statue for more than a month, was discovered by two students who were not careful enough because of the corruption and oozing of fluid. The two of them broke the plaster shell and were so scared that they almost fell into the storage room. Your master carried them to the hospital--" Zhu Silai looked away slightly, watching Gu Xing rubbing his face with his mouth wide open, and smiled until the fine lines at the corners of his eyes gathered together. He covered his lips and cleared his throat, then pulled the words back in a twisted way: "That's a bit biased, but I think oil painting is indeed one of the directions that can be referenced regarding turpentine, although it's definitely not that easy to screen. In addition--"

Zhu Silai leaned over and rummaged through the shelf at the other end of the desk, then picked up one of the folders, pulled it out and spread it in front of Jiang Mo: "Earlier, Feng Yao's clothes were almost soaked with blood. I thought it was the grease from the kids' meals that got on the collar. Later, when Xiao Luo and Pangtuo checked again, they didn't pay attention to it. But the oily substance on the keychain reminded me--"

Zhu Silai flipped open a printed photo and pointed it at it for Jiang Mo to look at. He turned around and compared the report on the key chain with the inspection documents of Feng Yao's blood-stained clothes. Then, looking at Jiang Mo's stunned expression for a few seconds and then frowning with sudden realization, he slowly let out a long sigh.

"This small piece of Feng Yao's clothes is also turpentine - it is a general component that has almost evaporated."

Jiang Mo stared for a while, then suddenly turned around and looked at Gu Xing.

"This is not a good sign." Gu Xing didn't look up first. He leaned on the chopsticks and picked at the rice noodle rolls in front of him without any taste, facing Jiang Mo's gaze. He hesitated and said silently for a few seconds, "It's a coincidence that happens once in a million. If there is no real connection, everything will be fine. But if there is... that means that the murderer of the Red Mansion case is probably waiting for an opportunity to jump under our noses again. I don't know what he plans to do."

Gu Xing bit the tip of the chopsticks with a "crunch" sound, slowly swallowed the harsh words "I don't want Shao Jie to be the next Xiaoying" back into his stomach, and raised his eyebrows meaningfully.

"It's not appropriate for me to get directly involved in anything related to the Red Mansion case. As for Shao Jie...you can handle it yourself."

Due to work and health reasons, I will be working on another day~
"In the dream, there are clearly six realms, but after waking up, there is nothing."