Chapter 10 chapter Ten

The three streets leading back to the apartment are like three miles.I went into the parking lot and told the janitor I wanted the car out. He looked at the 20 cents tip I gave him, as if it wasn't a tip but an insult.He removed a few cars and gave the company car a thumbs-up: use it. I got in the car, started the engine and drove slowly out of the apartment's private parking lot.I drove six blocks away and parked on the side of the road.I waited five minutes before starting the engine, fueled up, took a quick corner and made several more laps. I'm sure no one is following me.

The fog drifting in from the ocean has gradually receded.The temperature of the air is dropping, and the chill penetrates my bones.At one point I felt like I could sustain it, but suddenly tiredness hit my body and every drop of my blood.The tropics have thinned me, and the vermin have weakened me.I was shaking like a malaria attack.I endured this for a while, and regained some of my ability to move, but I was very weak. I drove to the District Court, found a good spot, and parked the car. I waited like an eternity for half an hour.Lu Bilian hurried out from the lighted gate.She looked to the left and right of the street, turned right, and began to walk with a fast and businesslike pace, as if with a certain purpose.

I waited for her to be almost a street away and put the car into gear. She walked two or three streets and started looking for a taxi. I slowly moved the car closer to the sidewalk, rolled down the window: a ride? she looks at me.At first it was suspicion, then recognition, and finally anger.Go ahead and ignore me. Just make do with it, I said: It doesn't cost a penny. She came over and pulled the door open forcefully: So it was you who told me the secret, I should have thought of it a long time ago. I said tiredly: Don't be stupid, I've been protecting you. How else do you know I'm here?

It's a long story. Try it and see how to explain it. I said: When the car was parked in front of Kong's door, someone put the murder weapon that killed that man in my car. The way she looked at me in amazement, maybe a little too much, but maybe not. I said: Of course they nitpicked and questioned me severely.Kebaisha, my partner, thinks you have something to do with it. So she told the police that I was also near Kong's house. Don't blame her, she wouldn't do such a thing. so what I said: Of course Ke Baisha is not happy.The old joke said that I bought three packs of cigarettes.Mi Shanlou, from the homicide team, obviously doesn't care about the joke, so let me know where you are.

how to say? I said: Officer Mi is not stupid.If he didn't find out about you, he was willing to give up the people involved in this joke, he must seize the three packs of cigarettes that Baisha said, and find out to the bottom of it.Officer Mi ignored the incident and even pretended not to hear, letting me know that he has checked you out.If he'd checked you out before he came to visit us both, it's 100 percent that they called you to the D.A.'s office and stayed there.The only thing I'm not sure about is whether they're going to keep you in custody or let you go free.I'm here to wait for you, if you don't come out in half an hour

A shudder hit me again.I put my foot on the brake to slow the car down, but it's not obvious from the outside because I hold the steering wheel with both hands. Lu Bilian looked at me.After a minute the trembling passed, and I resumed normal speed. Lu Bilian said: Even if your reasoning is correct.I was released by them, why are you waiting for me at the door? In order to see you. see me why? confirm each other. What does it prove? How did the murder weapon get into my car when it was parked in front of Kong's house? I have no idea. Think again. I'm telling the truth, Tang Nuo, I don't know.

I said: I don't like being pushed around. I don't think you are that kind of person either. When I don't like it, I think of something to fight back. I tell you, I really don't know anything about this. I drive forward slowly: we see it from another angle.When you went to see Kong Feilu, you were very frightened at the time, and you wanted to find a witness.You took me home and found Subury's body after a bit of messing around.Then you go to Lingji, I will wait for you to go in and then slip away by myself, you probably know that I will not wait for you.I walked six blocks to hail a taxi.The taxi took me to 906 South Holder Street.I took the car back to the detective agency, studied the case with my partner, and then drove to see Su Youqi.

go on.Seeing that I stopped talking, she urged me to continue. Ling Bimei had enough time to put the murder weapon in my car. You thought he slipped out and put the murder weapon in your car, and then He didn't need to bother so much, he just had to pick up the phone and tell someone that Tang Nuo's car was parked in front of the number on South Hound Street, and it was the most timely time to put the murder weapon in his car, because when the body was found, Tang Nuo and Bi Lian together, the cops would think he was involved Nonsense!She interrupted me: With a little brainpower, I know that Ling Bimei is the last thing she wants to do this kind of attention-grabbing thing.Once you are brought in, I am more noticeable.Apart from the fact that you betrayed me, I can't think of why I was invited by the district attorney to investigate so closely.

I pulled the car over to the side of the road to stop work.This is a calm commercial street. At this time, there are almost no vehicles coming and going, and there are not many lights, and the shops on the road are not open. Do you want me to get out of the car and walk?she asked nervously. I said: I have something to say. So go ahead. I said: I will go to the old place of Lingji.You tell me to fuck off.I didn't roll.The servant took me to see Ling Bimei.Bi Mei told me to get the hell out and not to go back. She said: Can you tell me something I don't know? I said: Ling Bimei's watch is one hour fast.The clock in his room was also fast an hour.

She sat there expressionless.I could see she wasn't even breathing. This is always new, right?I asked. She remained motionless. I said: We saw Subury's body in your bathroom.His watch was one hour behind. What conclusion does our great detective have on the matter?she asked, trying to mend it in a playful way. I thought, I said: Ling Bimei is creating an alibi for herself.He set his watch and clock fast an hour.Suppose Su Baili had been there.If Subury had gone to the bathroom, he had taken off his watch while washing his hands, and the bathroom boy had been notified and had taken the opportunity to sneak his watch forward an hour.

She said: almost an hour?There is no change in the face. I say so. But you yourself said that when we saw his body his watch was one hour behind. I don't think I need to detail every subsection. Now that you've started talking, you might as well speak more carefully. I said: Ling Bimei is making a good alibi.Su Baili came to visit Ling Bimei. At this time, Su Baili's watch had been set forward by one hour, but he didn't know it.Ling Bimei found an opportunity to make Su Baili notice the time. Su Baili didn't expect it to be so late, but he checked Ling Bimei's watch and Ling Bimei's clock again, both pointing to the same time.Don't you see everything is going well?But what has been developed since then is called superfluous!A good one-pot meal, after cooking for a while, it will burn naturally. What do you mean? I said: When you found Su Baili's body, you also knew that his watch was one hour ahead.You don't know the correct time because you don't have a watch with you.You intuitively think that Sudbury's watch is one hour ahead, so you turn it back one hour.But someone else, who also knew about the Subury watch, had set it back an hour before you. She didn't move or make a sound, and I looked at her to make sure she was unconscious. How about it?I asked? I'm not going to talk about not talking to you. I said: also good.Start the engine. where are we going? Go back to Kebaisha's apartment. What's in Kobesha's apartment? Police officer Mi Shanlou of the homicide squad. What do you want me to do? I'm going to tell him what I just told you.Then everything is up to him.I have done enough. She endured for more than a dozen streets, and suddenly pointed to the car key and said: Turn it off. Ken spoke?I asked. Yes.I stopped the car on the side of the road, turned off the engine according to her intention, leaned back on the car seat, and said lightly: Let's talk. She said: "They knew that if I told you this, they would kill me. If you don't speak up, you'll be arrested for first-degree murder anyway. You are so cruel. There was a tremor, and I tried my best to resist.Threateningly said: I was as cold and hard as the iron gate of the prison. She said: Well, what do you want to know? everything. She said: I can't tell you everything, but I can tell you everything about me.I want you to know that no one is trying to frame you.I don't know much about other people. I said: Right here, right now, tell me everything you know, or I will hand you over to Officer Mi.I won't urge you anymore, you decide for yourself. She said: "It's not fair. I said: It's not fair to put me in this embarrassing situation either.You decide.I have stuck my head out for you many times.I quit now.It's time for you to return my favor. She said: I can just walk away, you dare not hinder freedom. try it. She didn't speak for ten seconds, and then said: What do you think Su Baili makes money from. Now it's your turn to speak. extortion. go on. We don't know it all the time. Who are we? Ling Bimei. What happened when Ling Bimei found out? He got busy. Tell me about the blackmail. The method is not the same as the general one.He slides like an old fox.He adorns himself like a gentleman who invests a lot of money and goes fishing. Mrs. Kou? Yes.He would not seek her for small sums.He waited until she got married before doing anything.He is not afraid of difficulties in the future.He was going to sell the building to her at three times the market price. It's a good deal.I said. Yes and worry free.Most of the people he blackmailed had never met him in person.He also blackmailed people he never met. How can it be? He certainly has an organization to gather intelligence.But Su Baili's cleverness lies in his ability to keep information for months or years until it is fattened up and slaughtered at once.The victim only gets one call, and only one. What will he say. There is a deed to threaten the victim to pay his nephew in cash.There might be a headless letter or two after that.Often the phone calls are devastating, and the others are just minor mopping ups that Deeds can handle. I said: Youqi's eyes were swollen from too much tears.His tears were not from sorrow, but from breaking a cigarette and putting tobacco in his eyes.I myself helped him remove a small grain of tobacco.The broken cigarettes were still on the chest of drawers. She didn't speak. I said: You Qi has an enlarged photo of you hanging on the wall. Didn't he already take it down?she asked hastily. Yes, he said you didn't know, he bribed your photographer Bribe is not, blackmail is the right word.Youchee is just a poor idiot.His uncle had a dangerous brain. What does this matter have to do with Ling Bimei?Don't tell me he's blackmailing Ling Bimei, I'll die laughing. But Su Baili was also blackmailing Ling Bimei, but not directly. don't know. Blackmail customers from the old place of Lingji, use the old place to collect information, which can be used in the future.But he had good screens and a lot of prevention, so we didn't find out until much later.It is also because of Mrs. Kou's business that opened our eyes to become wise.Of course, the matter had too much to do with Ling Bimei. The rent contract in the old place would automatically expire 90 days after the building officially changed hands. So Mrs. Kou didn't really want to buy it, and Ling Bimei didn't want Su Baili to sell it either.Yeah? Roughly so. What else? I have no idea.All I know is that Subury has a safe full of papers.The files are now in our hands. Who stole it? She simply said: Me. I had to jerk from the car seat in amazement: You went to get it. Yes. when? this afternoon. how did you make it? She said: roughly as you imagined.Lingji old place is like other nightclubs, there is a liar in the bathroom.He turns on the water for you, gives you a dry towel, pretends to brush your shoulders with a small brush, and waits carefully for tips.Su Baili's habit of washing his hands was very careful. He always took off his watch and handed it to the servant, and then spent a lot of time washing it.Ling Bimei simply ordered the servant to turn Su Baili's watch forward one hour. what happened after that? Almost as soon as Su Baili returned to the hall, Ling Bimei invited him to the office.Of course Ling Bimei has adjusted the office clock and her own watch. Well, this part fits the bill.I said.Tell me, how did he come to your apartment? Haven't you thought about the general situation? No. He is blackmailing me. With what handle? She replied: Use the bait I personally gave him as an excuse.When Ling Bimei wanted to stop Su Baili's blackmailing activities, he needed a bait, and I was the wooden fake duck when hunting wild ducks. How? Su Youqi has been pursuing me, so I asked Youqi to eat the bait and bring it back to his uncle.Sure enough, his uncle ate it too. What fake handle did he catch you on? She laughed: I'm a wanted murderer. Is there any basis? of course not.This is a well-designed strategy.I put some old newspaper clippings and a few incriminating letters I wrote to myself in a drawer where I was bound to see them.He found it, looked at it, and brought it to his uncle. What about his uncle? You promised to come to me this afternoon, idiot, do you understand now? And you smashed his head with an axe. Do not be silly.I gave him a drugged drink and put him in a coma for an hour to an hour and fifteen minutes at most. I said: I understand.You have a date with him with an agreed time.You deliberately mentioned the time when he came to make him think that it was just on time.After he is unconscious, you set his watch back to the correct time and tell him that he only took a nap for ten to fifteen minutes. He may think it is because he is too tired or because of his heart, so he will not pursue it too much. Exactly. What do you do in this hour and fifteen minutes? For about forty-five minutes, I'm playing a cameo thief. Are there any flaws left? I don't think so. How do you do it? She said: A month ago, I first rented a room, which was also in Fulu Apartment.I'm very careful not to go there unless I'm sure Sudbury isn't around.Even so, I spent the night there only occasionally, to let the maid know that the bed had been slept in.The identity I made was a newspaper reporter, and I had to travel back and forth between Los Angeles and San Francisco for work.In this way, when the lease is to be canceled in the future, it can be said that the workload here will be reduced, and it will be cheaper to stay in a hotel when you come back. go on. Su Baili drank his drink, moved unsteadily, and walked to the bathroom.The effect of the medicine came on very quickly, and he fell asleep halfway in the bathtub.I took the key from his pocket.We've already found out that he wrote the combination to the safe in a notepad, disguised as a phone number.Su Baili never relied entirely on memory. The rest of the work is not difficult.I went out secretly, entered Flow's apartment generously, went back to my own room over there, sneaked to his first floor, opened his door with his key, opened the safe with a password, and swept away the documents that could incriminate people. And empty.Let's drive Su Baili out of this circle at once so that we can no longer harm others. Then what? I rushed back to the apartment to find him dead. What did you do with the keys? She said: Put it back in his pocket. Then She said: I called Ling Bimei.He told me to go to Kong Feilu immediately and try my best to find out all the facts about Fiima defrauding him in that car accident. Did you ask him why? asked. How did he say? Fiima is Mrs. Cole. Who told you the damages figure and how many other lawsuits there are? It's Ling Bimei. on the phone? Yes. Did he tell you what to do after finding Kong Feilu? He told me to choose a witness, don't decide on who first, let it happen, it is better to be an accident.Find someone to go back with and find the dead body. So you picked me. Your sudden appearance.I think it was a witness who came to the door.The problem is that it is too good, because of the relationship of the little key, I can see it for you. Why the sudden interest in Mrs. Kou?I asked. Because Mrs. Kou and he are both in the same place.Because Mrs. Kou left the old place with him.And after Su Baili left alone, Mrs. Kou followed him by car. How do you know? Ling Bimei told me. How did he know. I have no idea. Do you think that Mrs. Kou is the murderer in Ling Bimei's mind? I think the more evidences collected in Ling Bimei's mind, the better. Tang Nuo, to be honest, I don't know what's in his mind, he's hiding it. Well, let's get back to the murder thing.You drugged your drink.Where did the medicine come from? Ling Bimei gave it to me. Have you used drug in your drink before? No. You leave the apartment, leaving the unconscious Subury alone in the apartment.What exactly did you do, step by step?Of course you locked the apartment door, didn't you? No, I don't. Why not lock it? I was taught not to lock the door. Who told you not to lock the door? Ling Bimei. Did you say why? She said: I left a note in the hand of the unconscious Mr. Su, in case he wakes up, he will not fail to see it.The note said he was having a heart attack, so I went downstairs to the pharmacy to buy medicine for him.So I have an excuse to leave. Makes sense, but why is the apartment door left unlocked on purpose? Not only is it unlocked, but a slight slit is left to show that you have to go out in a hurry. These are all set up in case Su Baili wakes up early. Of course, Ling Bimei is also the director. Yes. I don't like it very much.I said. Why? I said: Suppose your story is completely true.That Ling Bimei is completely playing you like a bear.Everything is too convenient a good opportunity for murder, you see, a man is unconscious in your apartment, you are not home, the door is not locked Wait a minute! What's the matter. I said: Ling Bimei is not stupid.If he's going to lay it on you, he doesn't have to split his head with a hatchet.He'd suffocate him with a pillow and say it was an overdose or he had a bad heart.No, using an ax is indeed too cruel, and it is not in line with Mr. Ling's style.Now I can see why Ling Bimei is eager to find information about Mrs. Kou.Let me ask you one more thing. When you went back, was the note still in his hand? Yes. what did you do with it ruined. I said: so far, everything can meet.It's a good plan.Su Baili is a man who will come to your appointment on time.Of course he didn't expect his watch to be set forward an hour, and if all went well, it would be set back to normal time before he woke up.He may suspect that there is a problem with the drink, but he will never think that you have enough time to get his key, and does he value his key? Of course it is very important to see.The lock on his door was made against a master key.Inside the steel door of the safe was another steel door with the best lock.The file drawer behind the two doors is locked with another lock. I meditated and said slowly: Maybe it was designed like this, as you said.Maybe it was designed with the intention of murdering him.only She threw her whole body towards me.Her arms were around my neck, her face was pressed against mine. It was so sudden that I was taken aback.I started pushing her away. She pulled my upper body towards her, pulled me even tighter, and whispered in my ear: Be more enthusiastic!A patrol car just rounded the corner, kiss me if they see us parked here I don't let her go on, I kiss her. She murmured: It's already like this, you don't have to be prudish anymore. I hug her a little tighter. I hear a car stop. Lu Bilian complained and whispered: You are praying in the classroom! I pull myself together and do what I'm supposed to be doing.A flashlight shines on my face.A gruff, gruff voice said: What is this for? I let Bilian relax and blinked at the light of the flashlight. What are you doing?The man said: This is a commercial street. Lu Bilian glanced at him, covered her face with her hands, and began to cry. The flashlight illuminated a circle in the car: Let's see your face.The police said to me. I lifted my head so he could shine a flashlight on my face.He saw the lipstick marks on my face, my messy hair, my tie pulled to one side, and said: Fuck off!Don't come here next time.Finding a motel is easier than anything. I started the engine and rolled faster than anyone else. Lu Bilian said: It's really dangerous. You are so quick.I said. I have to be quick.Tang Nuo, did it really take you so long to react? I wanted to say something, but the accident just now and the chill in the air suddenly penetrated into my bone marrow, and I shivered from the bone marrow, and I heard the sound of my teeth colliding.I tried to stop the car, but it started snaking. Ah, what's the matter with you? I said: The tropics turned my blood into water, and you boiled it again. I finally stopped the car. Lu Bilian ran out of the car, came to my side, opened the door, squeezed me into the right seat, sat under the driver's seat and said: Listen to me, you must have a good sleep, where do you live? My apartment was no good and I said: you can't take me back. why not? Mi Shanlou will definitely send someone to monitor. She said nothing, just started the engine. where to goI asked. Didn't you hear what the policeman said too.