The police dog sniffed earnestly on the floor, while Shaggy Wai and I smoked in the doorway.
“Really? This house doesn’t smell at all, it could be hiding a dead person? You’ve never seen a murder scene, that smell, even if you turn on seven or eight electric fans at the same time, you can’t blow it off. Not to mention a dead person, if there is a dead mouse in this room, it can stink to death.”
“Team Xia is right, but you’ve never been in criminal investigation, it’s normal not to know this.”
A tall, thin police officer approached Xia Gehuai with a pleasing face and handed him a bottle of water, “Master, we’ve searched everywhere and there’s nothing. You don’t even have a piece of pork in the fridge, not to mention a dead person. Think about it, that Lin Fang is a little girl, even if she really hid a corpse, would she dare to hide it in the place where she sleeps every day? I wouldn’t even f*cking dare.”
I said, “You’ll never understand the mind of a psychopath, and that’s why you’ll be a cop, not a murderer. Look harder, Lin Fang values her family, if she had to hide a body, she’d be less likely to hide it in her old house.”
The young policeman was in a mood when I disliked him and yelled, “What you said is all theory. Where else can a body be hidden in this house? Look. We’ve had the dogs sniff under the floor, inch by inch, and there’s really nothing.”
Xia Gehuai’s opinion was similar to the young policeman’s, both thought I was overthinking it.
I had been in this house many times, but had never taken a good look around, and on closer inspection there didn’t seem to be anything special about it, the windows were clear and there was nothing unusual about it.
“Call the landlord and ask him if Lin Fang is still paying him the usual rent every month.”
Xia Gehuai said, “I asked because we were already looking for Lin Fang, and I thought if the house hadn’t been rented out, it might be a clue to find Lin Fang. But the landlord said that Lin Fang had paid three years’ rent in one breath.”
I said, “Lin Fang only has 7,000 left on her, three years’ rent is at least 100,000, there is nothing wrong with this house, she won’t spend this money in vain.”
I wandered around, not feeling out of place anywhere, and sat on my butt on the bed to try to rest.
Xia Gehuai still wanted to persuade me, but the little policeman pulled him in and said quietly, “Team Xia, just let him toss and turn. This kind of rich boy always thinks he can do anything, so if you persuade him, he will be more energetic.
Xia Gehuai laughed and pooh-poohed, “This is my best friend, let you talk like Chen Yu Zhou.” He came over to me and advised me, “Zhang Chao, don’t be obsessed, I don’t think Lin Fang is that scary.”
“Wait.” I was just going to stretch out, but when I looked up at the ceiling, my heart suddenly stuttered, “Have someone look up at the ceiling.”
Xia Gehuai was full of disbelief, and the rest of the police were also amazed.
“Boss Zhang, you really should stop tossing and turning, you can see the police dogs are silent, which means there is really nothing in this house. Master, if we toss and turn, when the house owner finds us in trouble, we are going to get a lecture.”
Without waiting for Xia Gehuai to say anything, I said, “Tear it down, and if something happens, I’ll pay for it.”
Xia Gehuai patted me on the shoulder and said to his men, “Why are you still standing there, why don’t you go up and have a look?”
“Master, is this… is this not nonsense?”
“If you’re told to go, you go. I’ve worked hard for you all today, consider it a personal matter for me, I’ll treat you all to swallow and abalone shark’s fin tonight.”
Everyone laughed and scolded, “Come on, with your two sh*tty salaries, jerking off isn’t even enough.”
“No need for abalone and bird’s fins, but Master, you can’t miss the spicy hotpot.”
They were not satisfied, but they took a chair and set up a ladder to climb up.
I originally thought it was 90 percent luck that Xia Gehuai got the job, but now it seems not to be the case, this kid has two skills. I guess in the eyes of these police officers, I’m just an obnoxious second-generation rich guy with no skills and a love of fooling around.
The ceiling is a very simple ceiling, surrounded by light slots, I remember Lin Fang did not turn on the lights in the slots, often turned on the middle of the ceiling lights.
“Master, there’s nothing.”
He jumped down, the words were addressed to Xia Gehuai, but his eyes were looking at me with disdain.
I said, “I’ll go up.”
“OK, OK, OK, you go up there and see if you can make something out of nothing, why are you so disobedient.”
I ignored him and climbed onto the chair, it was covered in dust and there must have been nothing in the light slot. I said to Shagwai, “Throw me a chair.”
The rest of the men looked disdainful and confused, but Xia Gehuai didn’t ask too many questions and threw one directly to me, which I weighed and swung straight up towards my head.
“Zhang Chao you’re f*cking crazy!”
Dust chips of lime and cement boiled up as the police officers coughed and shouted curses.
I jumped out of my chair as Xia Gehuai chased the dust away, coughing so hard that tears came out of his eyes, “Zhang Chao, if it weren’t for the fact that you’re rich, I’d be cursing you.”
I said, “Look for yourself.”
“What?”
Xia Gehuai looked up and followed what I pointed to, his face froze and he took a deep breath.
A large hole had been broken in the ceiling and a body, already in the form of a dry corpse, had its head peeking out of the hole, the corpse bound in layers of cling film, open wide in horror from the loss of water and contraction.
The police dog barked furiously at the ceiling, jumping up and down in excitement, and the young cop who had just been seven times convinced and indignant with me could not close his jaw at this point, wiping his face, “Crap, there really is.”
Seriously, I was no less shocked than they were that Lin Fang had actually lived in the same room with a corpse for so long, even a man couldn’t do that.
“Crap, I’ve been a cop for so long, I’ve seen a lot of perverts, but I never thought that perverts were all around us. Lin Fang looks soft and fragile, but I never thought she would be this kind of person.”
I had known for a long time that Lin Fang was not only not a soft woman, her ruthlessness even exceeded my imagination, for her own benefit, she almost caused a car accident to kill Chu Xiaoxiao and I. She and Jiang Ming were actually the same kind of person.
“This man was not killed by Lin Fang, keep today’s incident a secret for now and have your people guard the dead mouth.”
“Wait, what the hell is going on here? There’s no way we can keep it a secret when we find the body.”
“I don’t care, you help me drag it out for a day or two first, the body is here first, the cling film is full of desiccant and deodorant, it’s more antiseptic than a mummy, it won’t rot for a while, the dogs can’t smell it and no one else will.”
Xia Gehuai pinched his cigarette and thought and said, “It’s too difficult, in case the landlord wants to come in to see the house, how can we hide such a big dead person?”
I said, “You go think of a way, tell him he won the lottery, a seven-day trip to New Malaysia and Thailand, tickets for tonight, food and accommodation all inclusive, I’ll pay for it.”
Xia Gehuai was stunned and burst out laughing, “You really f*cking think of that, rich motherf*cker.”
I gave Xia Gehuai a blank cheque with my signature and asked him to do it for me, it was very convenient for the police to do this.
At the same time, I told Xia Gehuai the truth about the case, and Xia Gehuai then realized that the corpse that Lin Fang had hidden was the one that Chen Yu Zhou had killed in the video.
