The Mystery of the Inner Demon

Chapter 48 Strange Neighbors
Xiaoyou shook her head and said childishly, "I don't remember."

"Then how did you get home?"

"Daddy-Long-Legs brought me back."

Zhong Kui came over and asked a question: "Xiaoyou, can you tell me your home address?"

Xiaoyou didn't seem to understand and said, "It's right there." He pointed with his finger, obviously not knowing where to go.

Zhong Kui stood up and said to Qi Fei, "He still doesn't know the address of his home. This is very interesting. The person who instigated him seems to know a lot about his family situation."

Qi Fei agreed after hearing this: "This is a very strange thing. Whoever it is seems to know a lot about Lu Xiuxia's family situation. However, this so-called obedient medicine and the uncle's story are too difficult to investigate."

"I see there is a wound on Xiaoyou's face." Zhong Kui said from the side.

Upon hearing this, Lv Xiuxia couldn't help but shed tears: "Lu Fengsheng got drunk and beat her up yesterday. If I hadn't stopped him, I really don't know what would have happened to Xiaoyou!"

"Have you fought before?"

After hearing this, Lv Xiuxia covered her face with her hands and burst into tears: "It's all my fault for not protecting Xiaoyou well."

"Xiaoyou said he went to an alley last night. Has he ever gone out alone?" Zhong Kui asked.

"Yue Fengsheng wanted to hit Xiaoyou, so I told the child to run, and he ran out. I don't know where he went."

"Aren't you worried about such a young child running out alone?" Qi Fei asked.

Lu Xiuxia shook her head. "At that time, I was so focused on stopping Yue Fengsheng that I didn't care about anything else. I had planned to wait until Fengsheng calmed down before going out to look for the child. But when I saw Xiaoyou come back on her own, I felt relieved."

"He said a Daddy-Long-Legs brought him back."

"I know all the neighbors here. There is no such person as Xiaoyou mentioned. As I said just now, Xiaoyou also talked about Daddy-Long-Legs before. But Yue Fengsheng is always causing trouble for others. How could anyone be willing to play with Xiaoyou?" As she said this, Lu Xiuxia started crying again.

Qi Fei and Zhong Kui looked at each other. It seemed that they could not get any valuable clues from Lu Xiuxia. It was really not easy to find this person.

"Xiaoyou, did you bring back the obedient medicine that your uncle gave you?" Zhong Kui turned around and continued to ask Xiaoyou patiently.

Xiaoyou gestured like the real thing: "Uncle gave Xiaoyou some medicine to be good, and Xiaoyou put it in his pocket and brought it back with him."

"Which coat was Xiaoyou wearing last night?" Zhong Kui immediately asked Lu Xiuxia, "If Xiaoyou really brought something back, and he put it in his pocket, we need to check it out."

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When I came out of Lu Xiuxia's house, many nearby residents had gathered downstairs. It seemed that the news had spread quickly.

Qi Fei looked at the onlookers who were talking about something and walked towards the crowd: "You all know Yue Fengsheng. Do you know who he has offended recently?" Qi Fei took out a notebook and said to them.

When everyone heard this, they all started talking at once: "There's no place here where he won't offend us. With him living here, we can't have a single day of peace!"

"How do you say this?"

"This Yue Fengsheng gets into trouble when he drinks. He either says the flower pots next door are blocking his view or that he doesn't allow people to keep dogs. They're all trivial matters, but he just doesn't like everyone."

"How about recently? Has anything special happened?"

When asked this question, everyone looked at each other and no one answered.

Zhong Kui pointed to the house on the first floor and asked, "Does this family have a conflict with Yue Fengsheng?" One of the neighbors spoke frankly and blurted out, "How do you know?"

Zhong Kui smiled: "I'm a fortune teller..." Before she finished speaking, Qi Fei pulled her aside and said, "You are representing the police station now, don't talk nonsense!"

Sure enough, the crowd had already started talking: "Are the police now working with the fortune teller?"

"Could it be that Yue Fengsheng was killed by an evil spirit?"

“What retribution!”

Qi Fei reluctantly stepped forward to explain: "This lady is not from our police station. If you have any clues about Yue Fengsheng's death, please contact us. Don't watch the excitement, everyone disperse!"

Zhong Kui came up and whispered in his ear, "The more you say that, the more they think there's something wrong!"

"Tsk, Captain Liu asked you to be a consultant, not to cause trouble." Qi Fei was speechless, pulling Zhong Kui's arm and walking towards the house with the closed door.

As they turned around, the crowd began to criticize the person who had let the cat out of the bag: "Don't talk nonsense. People like Lao He's family are so good that they wouldn't kill anyone."

"That's right, hasn't the harm done to me by that Yue guy been bad enough?"

"Didn't the Yue guy die from drinking too much?"
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The two men arrived at the door of Room 101. Qi Fei knocked several times before the door opened.

The person who opened the door was an old man in his sixties, wearing thick cotton pajamas, his eyes full of displeased vigilance.

"We are from the Nancheng Police Station. We would like to know more about the death of Yue Fengsheng in Room 401 upstairs." Qi Fei said.

The man frowned and said, "We are not familiar with him, there is nothing much to say." As he spoke, his hand was on the door, ready to close it at any time.

Zhong Kui poked her head out from behind and said, "Yue Fengsheng got drunk and kicked your door in. As a result, your family members haven't dared to go out for exercise these past two days. Isn't that familiar?"

The man looked at Zhong Kui with surprise in his eyes and asked, "Did his wife tell you?"

"I calculated..." Zhong Kui was about to say that he had calculated it, but Qi Fei beside him quickly interrupted: "This is my colleague, please cooperate with our investigation."

The man heard this and reluctantly opened the door.

Behind him, a woman of about his age was looking at them with worried eyes.

"His death really has nothing to do with us." The man said as he invited them in.

This is the same apartment type as Yue Fengsheng's house. Although the decoration and furniture inside are old, they are neat and clean, which is completely different from the situation in Yue Fengsheng's house.

"What do you call it?"

"My last name is He Zhixin, and this is my lover Zhou Li. You can just call me Lao He." Although Lao He didn't want them to come in, he still poured them some tea and asked them to sit on the sofa in the living room.

"Lao He, you live on the first floor. Theoretically, people coming in and out of here would pass by your window." Qi Fei glanced at the north-facing kitchen window, which happened to be next to the apartment's staircase. "Did you see Yue Fengsheng's son Xiaoyou pass by after dinner yesterday?"

"We had dinner and then watched TV at home and went to bed early." He Zhixin said as if it was none of his business.

Zhong Kui flipped through a few magazines on the coffee table, showing the children's graffiti on them and asked, "Does the kid named Xiaoyou upstairs often come to play here?"

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