Genius Detective - Chapter 239

Chapter 239

Chapter 239: A Girl with Character

When they got to the ice cream tea shop outside the school, Gao Xiang kept asking Lin Dongxue about which flavor of ice cream was delicious . Lin Dongxue said, “Please pick one out for yourself . I don't eat this stuff . ”

“Is Sister afraid of getting fat? You are in great shape!” Gao Xiang said charmingly .

“Can we speak seriously?”

“Sure!” Gao Xiang deliberately sat up straighter . “You can ask now . I promise to let you know everything . ”

“What's your relationship with Jiang Hui?”

“Classmates, friends, buddies!”

“More than that, right? Your class teacher reported that Jiang Hui once said in the office that she liked you . ”

“She was deliberately annoying the teacher of the class . I really don’t know who coined the term 'early love' . The school doesn’t teach you how to fall in love . Is it better for people who have graduated to fall in love? This phrase is very cool, huh? Jiang Hui was the one who said it . She’s very talented . She often writes novels and scripts to earn money . She’ll invite us out to eat as well . I’m really just friends with her, but we can talk about anything . Let me tell you a secret… I actually like girls like Sister here!”

Lin Dongxue deliberately put on a poker face and asked indifferently, “Has Jiang Hui mentioned anything about her family?”

“Yeah! Her stepmother is a psycho . She often scolds her and says nasty stuff . Sometimes, she even hits Jiang Hui, but she never hits her in front of her grandparents . Jiang Hui hates her the most and wanted her to die . She even discussed with me how to kill someone . ”

“Are you sure that wasn't for the novel?”

“Maybe . . . Jiang Hui also said this: Every time she wanted to kill her stepmother, she would write a novel . She feels more comfortable after earning money . ”

“How much does she earn in a month?”

“One or two thousand . She used it to buy CDs and books . She really likes to read books, unlike me . ”

“How did you two get to know each other?”

“I can’t tell you actually . We often talk together . On several occasions, she got angry with her stepmother at home and ran out to find me . I treated her to beer . . . There’s really nothing between us . Jiang Hui has someone she likes and I also have… several girlfriends . I feel more relaxed with her . It’s like I’m with my brothers . ”

“What about her relationship with her brother?”

“Very good . I think they often talk with each other and sometimes they even leave school together . I even asked her whether she was doing German orthopedics[1] . ”

“What German ancient lessons[2]?”

“Oh, this is a slang term . You can find out the meaning by checking it online . Let me continue talking about Jiang Hui! Jiang Hui seems very cool, but deep down I know she’s sad and bitter at heart . When she was a child, her parents divorced, and her father had another child with the little three[3] . The family also blatantly favors the son . Let me tell you something so that you understand a bit more . One time, there was heavy rain and Jiang Hui stood at the classroom door without an umbrella . She watched the stepmother drive to pick up her brother from the school . She could only go home in the rain and she even caught a cold . “

“Where do you think Jiang Hui would go?”

“The police officers who came over the past two days have already asked me, and I told them a few places . Her mother’s place, her friend's house, or her aunt's house . I don't know if you’ve looked already or not . ”

Lin Dongxue thought that these were probably places Jiang Hui's family would have already searched . She didn’t forget her mission and asked, “Let me ask you something . Do you think Jiang Hui would kill someone?”

“No!” Gao Xiang was very sure . “Even if she killed someone, she would be killing her stepmother . . . Sister, did she kill someone?”

“I'm just asking a hypothetical question . Was there anything unusual about her before she disappeared?”

“No, it was very normal . Ah, our class and the next class over had a basketball game that day . I was the main force that day . I called Jiang Hui to cheer me on but she didn’t come because she had something to do at home . ”

“What else do you want to add?”

“Well . . . I seemed to see Jiang Hui steal something from a chemical laboratory that day . It was a small bottle . I asked her what it was and she said it was for murder!”

“When was it?”

“The day before the disappearance!” Gao Xiang suddenly covered his mouth . “She wouldn't really kill anyone, right? Is that illegal at this age?”

“She didn't kill anyone . Don't guess and talk nonsense!”

“Understood!” Gao Xiang saluted clumsily . “Sister, can I add you on WeChat?”

“If I’m looking for you, I'll come directly to the school . You just have to go to school over the next two days . ”

“No, I want to be a police officer too . I want to find out more about it from you,” Gao Xiang said with a smile .

“Study hard to get a chance to go to the police academy . ” Lin Dongxue stood up and left .

Lin Dongxue returned to the bureau . Lin Qiupu was waiting for her in the office . Lin Qiupu asked, “Did you find out anything?”

“Jiang Hui made an appointment with her brother before going missing . When she went somewhere after school, she might have had a syringe with a drug in her possession, but I don't think she had the motive for killing her brother . From all the evidence at hand, it seems like their relationship with each other isn’t bad . ” Lin Dongxue took out the diary . “Also, Jiang Hui usually writes novels and publishes them in some magazines . I read this again on the way back . I feel like this is not a diary entry, but an unwritten draft of the unfinished novel . At that time, the abuse suffered from the stepmother mentioned inside seems to be true, but even then, she has no motive to kill her brother . ”

“What about the motive for revenge towards the stepmother? The most cruel revenge for a mother is to make her lose her child . She killed her brother and then ran away . Is this possible?”

Lin Dongxue thought about it . “If we talk about my opinion, well, I don't think so . ”

“But it's undeniable that this possibility exists . Okay, you can continue to follow this case!”

“What have the local police checked?”

“They couldn’t find anything . They’ve gone to all the possible places they could draw relevance to . Tomorrow, you can go to the police station to find out more about it yourself . ”

At the same time, Chen Shi came to the office while the police were off duty, trying not to be seen by the people of the second team along the way . He knew that Peng Sijue was definitely still at work . Sure enough, Peng Sijue was sitting in the office and drinking coffee in front of the computer .

Chen Shi said, “Come out with me . Let me invite you to dinner . By the way…”

Peng Sijue said, “What's the main point that comes after?”

“I want to see the corpse you mentioned to Dongxue . ”

“Oh? You’re interested?”

“A bit interested!”

Peng Sijue took Chen Shi to the morgue in the basement and opened a cabinet . The male body had been frozen with a layer of frost . Seeing the branding on the neck of the corpse, Chen Shi's pupils shrank a bit and he reached out his hand subconsciously .

Peng Sijue threw a pair of gloves at him and Chen Shi snapped out of his daze before he put them on . Then, he checked the branding on the neck .

This is real!

The police had never disclosed this detail to the public . Even if someone had seen it, it couldn’t have been imitated to this degree . Chen Shi . . . No, Song Lang had seen it many times and the pattern was almost imprinted in his mind .

Zhou Xiao is back!

“Chen Shi . . . Chen Shi . . . ”

Peng Sijue's call brought his thoughts back to reality . Chen Shi looked up and smiled . “I heard that it’s a wanted serial killer . I want to see the case file . ”

“The archives personnel are off for the day . Come tomorrow!”

“Okay! Oh, let me invite you to dinner . ”

“Save it! So fake . ”

“Give me a chance to be real gorilla[4] then . ”

Peng Sijue looked at him with scorn . “T-Bone steak!”

1 . It’s a term that describes incest . The story was about a brother and sister having incest . The father broke the brother’s leg, and then the brother went on a Chinese version of Google to see who can fix his leg . He relied on German orthopedics to fix his leg .  

2 . Orthopedics and ancient lessons has the same pinyin – “Guke” and it sounds the same, so Lin Dongxue misunderstood .  

3 . Mistress 

4 . It’s a pun that Chen Shi used because he used the last two characters of “fake” which sounds like “gorilla” .