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Chapter 7 The first clue

The wide rear seats of the taxi are enough for two people not to disturb each other.Luo Fei closed his eyes and rested his mind, while Xiaoman stared at Luo Fei and hesitated to speak.

Luo Fei's eyes turned to Xiao Man under his eyelids: "If you have any questions, just ask, you're welcome."

Xiaoman looked at Luo Fei, and finally plucked up the courage to say, "How do you know that I graduated from the No. [-] Police Academy in East China?"

"Deduction and deduction, as long as the premise you master covers the conclusion, you can 'deduce' the conclusion. You held a paperweight against my back yesterday. Although the gun is fake, the posture is standard, and the language is also standard. It is obvious that you have received a police academy training. The No. [-] Police Academy in East China is currently the only police academy in China that recruits female students."

Xiaoman recalled the embarrassing scene between the two of them last night, slightly pursed her lips and let out a soft snort.

"You are right, but how do you know that I am taken care of by my aunt?" Xiaoman raised her face and continued to ask stubbornly.

"You arrived on the first day yesterday and wrote a letter to your family to report that you are safe. You left the letter at the concierge early this morning for the landlord to post it on your behalf. I accidentally glanced at it when I passed by."

"You opened my letter secretly?" Qin Xiaoman became nervous.

"Cut, I'm not interested." Luo Fei curled his lips, "I just took a look at the envelope, and it clearly said Ms. Gu Yingchun and Mr. Zhao Zheng received it."

"Your surname is Qin, but your family's surname is Gu He and Zhao, and you write the name of the lady before the name of the husband, so I guess she is your aunt. Instead of writing to your parents, you write to your aunt's family. I think you must be with me. Parents are more distant."

Xiaoman's eyes were sad, "They all passed away."

"I'm sorry." Luo Fei was silent for a while, as if he couldn't help but speak again, "So I'm not wrong, it is indeed very alienated."

Xiaoman twisted her lips hard, gave Luo Fei a hard look, and then turned her face out of the window.

The taxi ended up in front of a bungalow on Huashan Road.

The taxi driver turned to the two of them and said, "You two, are you here?"

Luo Fei opened his eyes and looked at the white bungalow outside the car window and the street sign of No.11 Huashan Road, straightened up and nodded.The two immediately got out of the car and walked towards the bungalow.

"You still say that I lack a tutor, is there any basis?" Qin Xiaoman was still unwilling.

Hearing this, Luo Fei couldn't help laughing: "Would a girl with a tutor crawl into a strange man's house through the window in the middle of the night?"

"you……"

So far, Xiaoman was completely defeated.

While talking, the two came to the gate of the horse house.

The iron gate of the horse house has been newly painted, but a lot of weeds have grown in the corners around the gate, making the front of the gate look a bit depressed.Luo Fei leaned on a cane with both hands and stood still at the door.Xiaoman walked over and rang the doorbell, but there was no movement in the house for a long time.

"Is anyone there? Is anyone at home?" Xiaoman simply patted on the iron door and looked inside.

After a while, the small window on the iron door opened, revealing the face of a shriveled old man, apparently dressed as the porter of the house.

The old concierge glanced at the two of them, and yelled at Xiaoman angrily: "Let's go! How many times have I told you that the young master is not here, so knock on me and call the patrol room!"

"Old man, we are from the police station." Xiaoman explained.

"What kind of room do you have?!" The old man put his ears together.

"Police room! Find Ma Boyuan!" Luo Fei rushed over and shouted into the old man's ear.

Covering his ears, the old man retracted his head and hastily closed the small window. After a while, the iron door was opened with a bang.

"Please come in, both of you." The old man's expression was a little blank.

The concierge led the way with a hunched back, and Luo Fei and Xiao Man followed behind him on a sandy path about one and a half cars wide.Xiaoman looked around, there was a large lawn on the left, a lot of weeds had emerged in the lawn, a tree was planted near the trail, and there were bushes under the tree.Under the bushes are also miscellaneous branches and leaves.

Suddenly, Xiaoman noticed that Luo Fei slowed down in front of the bushes.

Xiaoman looked suspiciously at Luo Fei picking up a handful of sand and thinking about it.

When Luo Fei left, Xiao Man, who pretended not to care, hurriedly leaned down, and carefully looked at the sand that Luo Fei threw away, with a puzzled expression on his face.

The three then walked to the end of the road.On the left is the big house of the Ma family, and on the right is the open carport, where a car is parked, and there is a kennel next to the carport.

Luo Fei walked leisurely like the conductor of a marching band, whistling lightly and waving his stick as he walked towards the carport.

After a few whistles, a German shepherd on a chain suddenly jumped out of the kennel and barked wildly at Luo Fei.

"Ah Fu! Go back!" The old concierge yelled, and the big dog stopped barking immediately, but still stared at Luo Fei with bared teeth.

"There really are dogs!" Luo Fei made a fencing attack posture with his cane, but when he saw the dog baring his teeth, he was frightened and backed away again and again.

Xiaoman looked at it from the side and thought it was funny, then walked over and grabbed Luo Fei: "The house is over there."

"I saw it." Luo Fei stiffened his neck, and immediately returned to his arrogant posture, gently retracted his foot, turned around gracefully and walked towards the big house.

Afterwards, the old concierge took the two of them into the living room.

"You guys wait! I'll report it!" The old man walked towards the inner house after speaking.

At this moment, only Luo Fei and Xiao Man are left in the living room.Luo Fei carefully looked at the large and small photos hanging on the wall of the living room with his hands behind his back.

Xiaoman looked around at the magnificent baroque decoration and exquisite furniture, and couldn't help admiring softly: "Wow, the rich man's house is really magnificent!"

Luo Fei glanced at Xiaoman: "What are you expressing indiscriminately, it's just that you used to be rich."

"What do you mean?" Xiaoman turned to look at Luo Fei.

"I thought you understood after following me just now. It turns out that you are just learning from others." Luo Fei continued after a bit of sarcasm, "The whole trail outside is paved with uniform white sand, and a small part of the newly added But it’s worthless gray sand with impurities; the guest didn’t even have tea, which means that there are no other servants in the whole house except the old man with deaf ears just now, and they should have been dismissed because they couldn’t pay the wages; and this Bogu stand... ..."

"What happened to Bogujia?" Xiaoman asked angrily.

"The characteristic of Bogu racks is the four characters 'patchwork'." Luo Fei said, pointing at the vases on the Bogu racks with his stick, "But look, these vases are all the same in style, color, and drawing, which shows that this family The only few vases left by the owner are antiques, and they can only be displayed for the sake of appearance, so there is no choice."

"Maybe the owner likes this style of vase?" Xiaoman said stubbornly.

Luo Fei smiled slightly, stretched out his hand and slowly turned one of the vases, and then a gap appeared at the back of the bottle.

"So he broke this one and didn't replace it, but put the notch in so it couldn't be seen?"

Before Luo Fei could finish his sentence, an old woman coughed softly from the direction of the inner house: "Cough, cough!..."

The two turned their heads and saw the old concierge walking in with a well-dressed old woman.

"This is our old lady." The old concierge said loudly.

Mrs. Ma then waved to the old concierge and pushed him away.

"Are you from the police station?" Mrs. Ma slowly sat down on the sofa.

"Hi Madam Ma." Qin Xiaoman walked up to Madam Ma and bowed, "I am police detective Qin Xiaoman, and he is Luo Fei, the consultant of the patrol room."

Mrs. Ma raised her eyes to look at Xiaoman and Luo Fei, her eyes were calm: "Detective, consultant... Bo Yuan is ill, please tell me if you have anything, I am Bo Yuan's mother."

"Is Ma Boyuan really sick?" Luo Fei paced, hovering behind Mrs. Ma.

Mrs. Ma sighed: "Yes, since Mengzhu left, my child doesn't think about food and drink every day, and hides in the house and doesn't want to see people. He has lost a lot of weight."

"Don't think about tea and rice?" Luo Fei said as he took out a receipt from under the tea tray on the tea table beside him, "Only eat the steak dinner delivered by Richard's restaurant."

"This... this is what I ordered." Mrs. Ma replied with some hesitation.

At this moment, footsteps were suddenly heard on the stairs.

"Mom, who's here? Did Caizhizhai deliver the snacks?"

Following the sound from far to near, Ma Boyuan also walked into the living room, and when he saw Luo Fei and Xiao Man, he was a little dazed.

"They are?" Ma Boyuan pointed at the two.

"It's from the police station," Mrs. Ma said.

"The patrol room... Didn't Detective Ye come here before and closed the case?" Although Ma Boyuan was puzzled, he showed a confident look.

"Mr. Ma, has Detective Ye found your wife Ruan Mengzhu for you?" Luo Fei threw down the receipt and walked in front of Ma Boyuan.

"Not yet." Ma Boyuan avoided Luo Fei's gaze, and turned to look at his mother.

"Then why are you in such a hurry to close the case? Don't you want to find Mrs. Zun?" Luo Fei approached Ma Boyuan.

"No, no, welcome." Ma Boyuan was a little incoherent, and then took a step back. At this moment, he realized that the man in front of him was very different from the police detective who had come to the patrol room.

Madam Ma saw that her son lost his composure, and immediately said to Luo Fei: "There has been no news from your patrol house for a long time, and we always thought it was hopeless to find someone."

Luo Fei ignored Mrs. Ma, and continued to approach Ma Boyuan: "How is your relationship with your wife?"

"It's not normal for young couples to be noisy." Mrs. Ma continued to answer for her son.

"Did you guys quarrel the day she ran away from home?" Luo Fei and Ma Boyuan were almost face to face.

"It's her who made trouble for no reason! Going back to her mother's house every three days..."

Luo Fei interrupted Mrs. Ma's words loudly, "Since Ruan Mengzhu disappeared, have you been waiting at home for news?"

"Yes, just visited my father's grave three days ago..."

"That is to ask the old man to bless him so that he can be found as soon as possible." Mrs. Ma quickly took over her son's words.

Luo Fei gave Xiaoman a wink at this moment, and Xiaoman immediately said to Mrs. Ma: "Mrs. Ma, we want to talk to your son alone. Please stay away for a while so as not to interfere with the official duties of the police station."

Mother Ma hesitated for a long time, while staring at her son Ma Boyuan, she walked out of the door resentfully, walked to the living room door and turned back.

"Boyuan, these two detectives are here to help you find Mengzhu. If you have any questions, please answer them carefully and don't talk nonsense."

Seeing this scene, Xiaoman stepped forward to block Madam Ma's view, and Madam Ma had no choice but to back out.Xiaoman closed the door, turned her head and met Luo Fei's eyes.

(End of this chapter)