Published at 20th of February 2022 9:55 am

Chapter 949: Lullaby

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Tao Yueyue asked, "Now?"

Lin Dongxue said, "Wait until the corpse has been examined. By the way, let's turn the corpse over!"

The two put the clothes back on the corpse and turned it over. Little Ai did have a lot of dust behind him. Tao Yueyue suddenly said, "Sister Lin, since it's raining outside and the ground is wet, how can there be dust?"

Lin Dongxue's eyes lit up. "Right, you’re right on the point. I was thinking about what he would have collided with mid-air that caused it, but if it’s raining, anything he would have brushed over would have been muddy."

"He seems to be missing a button on his sleeve." Tao Yueyue said, pointing to the wrist of the corpse.

"Ha, you found another detail. This is great."

With their abilities, they couldn’t see anything more, so she locked the door back up. Lin Dongxue checked the time. It was already 11:00 at night, and there was no one in the corridor. She asked, “Yueyue, are you sleepy?"

"I’m not sleepy at all... Why hasn't the local police arrived yet?"

"We’re on the outskirts. They still have a while before they get here. Shall we go take the elevator?"

"I think we should go down the stairs to have a look. Parts of the nails and buttons of the deceased are missing. Let’s see if they fell at the crime scene."

"You're right!"

Lin Dongxue increasingly felt that with Tao Yueyue's meticulousness and keenness, she could definitely inherit Chen Shi's mantle and become a genius at detective work.

They arrived at the place where the corpse was found. The rainy ground reflected the light from the street lamp. As this was towards the front of the hotel, it had been cleaned very thoroughly. Looking around, no evidence of the corpse being there were seen at all.

"Okay, it's definitely not here. Perhaps it's not the first crime scene at all." Lin Dongxue said.

"Then why did the stage manager auntie say that she saw the fall... Did she lie?"

"I don't rule out this possibility, but is it necessary for the auntie to lie? She and Little Ai have nothing to do with each other. Wait..." Lin Dongxue looked up. "We didn't pull out the room card when we left."

Tao Yueyue looked up and understood Lin Dongxue's meaning. Next to the lighted window was the auntie’s room. It was not in line with the falling point. Tao Yueyue said, "The auntie is really lying! I understand now. The man fell to death in another place and was carried here. Then, the auntie found a suitable time and shouted that someone had jumped off the building. Everyone looked out and saw someone had fallen down! Why did the auntie help the murderer? Or is she the murderer herself?!"

"You’re thinking too deeply. Lying doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re a murderer. Maybe she wants to hide something else."

"In front of the police, what do you want to hide even if it means you’d be suspected?"

"The police are outsiders too! Let’s go upstairs and take a look."

When they got to the conference room, Lin Dongxue turned on the light and saw a broken wine bottle and some paper towels on the ground. Tao Yueyue sniffed the air. "Someone has mated here before."

"Huh, you can smell it?"

"Sometimes when you and Uncle Chen get up in the morning, Uncle Chen has this smell. I just don't want to talk about it."

Lin Dongxue smiled. "Amazing, but don't use such strange words when discussing the case."

"It's not strange. This is a very objective way of saying it. I don't know why adults use so many words to refer to 'mating'. The whole cannon shooting, ‘pak pak’, applauding, holding a meeting, etc. The entire Xinhua dictionary is about to be borrowed as a metaphor for 'mating'. Don't do what you're too embarrassed to talk about. Honestly!"

Lin Dongxue laughed so hard that she couldn't handle it. "You can simply say 'a relationship happened between them'."

Lin Dongxue took out her mobile phone, took a few pictures of the debris on the ground, and then went to the window. The window was open and some dust was wiped off of the window sill. It seemed that someone had been sitting on it.

"Strange. There’s no trace of fighting around the window, as if the deceased had climbed on it himself." Lin Dongxue glanced down and saw a pool of blood. "This is almost perpendicular to the falling point, and there are no obstacles in between... But there’s a shelter at the front entrance of the hotel. Could it be that the dust and the sunken fracture was from hitting it?"

"Hasn't it already been determined that the first crime scene was over there?"

"No, no, every possibility must be considered, even if the purpose of consideration is only to exclude."

"If you think about it, you know it's impossible. How could a person fall there, get hit, then bounce to the ground, all while their ribs remain unbroken?"

"But the words 'if you think about it' can't be written on the court as testimony. I think a drop test could be done."

"It's no wonder that being a police officer isn’t as interesting as a detective. A detective just needs to think about it, but the police have to investigate everything one by one."

"Is the kind of detective you’re talking about the detectives from novels? In reality, a detective doesn't do anything like that. Every day, they investigate affairs and catch the adulterers."

At this time, a police car arrived. Lin Dongxue said, "They’re finally here. Let's go down!"

The people who arrived were all from the local police station. They lacked criminal experience and only provided support in terms of manpower. Lin Dongxue met them, spoke, and did things with the skill of an old criminal police officer. Tao Yueyue was watching her and thinking seriously. If I want to be a criminal detective in the future, do I want to have the same hairstyle as Lin Dongxue?

They went to Little Ai's room. Xia Xiaolou wasn’t there. The police temporarily took away some personal belongings that might be related to the case, and then the body was also taken away. The testimonies collected by Lin Dongxue were also given to them to file a case back at the head branch.

At 12:00 at night, the two returned to their room. Tao Yueyue yawned for a long time, and Lin Dongxue suggested, "Let's go to sleep!"

"Okay."

Lying on the bed, Lin Dongxue texted Chen Shi. Tao Yueyue snuggled into her arms and asked, "What did you say to Uncle Chen?"

"I forgot to return his WeChat message. He thought we were kidnapped by the bad guys. I told him that there was a homicide case here."

"Is he coming?"

"Do you want him to come?"

"Hmm..." Tao Yueyue leaned against Lin Dongxue's arms and closed her eyes. "I actually want to see if I can solve the case."

"Okay, then we will rely on ourselves this time!" Lin Dongxue replied to Chen Shi in this way.

After talking on WeChat, Lin Dongxue browsed on Weibo. Tao Yueyue lay motionless in her arms. She thought that Tao Yueyue was already asleep. When she was about to put her phone down to sleep as well, Tao Yueyue said in a low voice with her eyes closed, " Sing me a lullaby!"

Lin Dongxue thought for a while, patted her on the shoulder, and hummed a lullaby.

Tao Yueyue felt a burst of warmth pouring into her heart. She didn't use the term "motherly" to describe her because her own blood-related mother gave her nothing but a terrible childhood.

"Sister Lin, I really wish you were my mother!" Tao Yueyue murmured.

"I’m your mother now and I always will be, darling." Lin Dongxue smiled. "Let’s turn off the lights and go to sleep!"

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