Chapter 26 Chapter Twenty Six

The blackout was done very thoroughly.On the Highland Road, Baisha turned the light to low and crawled slowly at fifteen miles an hour.She pulled over, turned off the engine, and listened.There was nothing except the sounds of the night, not yet deterred by the sound of cars, some crickets chirping, some frogs singing, some unknown voices not heard in the city, and no cars were coming with her. Baisha took out her flashlight from her purse, and the faint light of the flashlight helped her find the way to the hut. The one-story house seemed to suddenly rise in front of her, and the house in the shadow had a sense of mystery, appearing a little bigger than it actually was.She followed the path with the short iron bars to the door, climbed the steps, and stopped.The door was closed tightly, which must have been the work of the police, and Betha wondered if the door was also locked.

She tried the doorknob and it was locked. It was not easy for Baisha to shine a flashlight into the door, but she saw that there was no key in the keyhole inside the door. The police must have locked the door and took the key away. There was a set of master keys in Kebaisha's leather bag, and she knew that even if someone found out, there would be a lot of trouble.But for the sake of convenience when necessary, she doesn't care so much.Moreover, Baisha is a person who does not hesitate to do it when she wants to get something. After three unsuccessful attempts at using the master key, she opened the door the fourth time.

Ke Baisha pushed the door open and stood still outside the door. She wanted to make sure that there was nothing weird inside the door. Hearing that there was no sound inside, and there was nothing unusual inside with a flashlight, she maneuvered to focus the flashlight on the left-hand corner, wanting to see if the weird bloodstain was still on the carpet or not. Baisha put out the light of the flashlight. Suddenly she heard movement in the room, and her cold hand immediately flipped the flashlight switch again, and she felt something coming straight towards her, and then bony fingers seemed to climb up her neck.

Baisha kicked vigorously towards the front space with one foot, clenched her left hand into the air, and waved the flashlight with her right hand, trying to find out the enemy who attacked her. It was only after she yelled that Baisha suddenly understood, and the thing in her throat left automatically.She heard the sound of wings flapping in the air, and the magnified shadow automatically disappeared like a phantom under the dim light of the flashlight. Ah Fu!She grunted in shock.It was the ghost bat. She shone the electric light back across the room, as if to make sure that no new traps had been set up for the homeowner's return.The flashlight kept pausing and staying on the object, and she didn't dare to move forward before she figured it out, lest it would touch some invisible wire and trigger a fatal bullet.

Now it seems clear what happened here the night before: Meng Jirui was so anxious to get into the house that he wanted to get the music box before anyone saw him, so he pulled the wire that triggered the shotgun.Today, Baisha still has the same anxiety and fear of being discovered, but Baisha is not willing to enter Baoshan and return empty-handed. The house is plain, but comfortably furnished.Apparently Galoney still entertained his gang at home a lot, so there were five or six nice couches in a circle in the living room.Next to the wall and under the window is a bookcase, there are no books in the cabinet, a table, no newspapers or magazines on the table.Betha's eyes were fixed on a high shelf by the window.She walks forward.Reach for the music case.The first time the blind man showed her the music box in the street, she just looked at it casually, but now she concentrated on observing it.

From the light of the torch, it can be seen that the box is carved and polished from extremely hard wood.On the outside there is an oil painting of farmhouse scenery, and on the opposite side is a beautiful girl, who looks a little plump from a modern perspective. At the time of painting, she must have been a standard beauty. After the oil painting was finished, a layer of glossy paint was applied on top of the oil painting. Now, both the glossy paint and the oil painting have become thinner and faded in places.However, the outside of the box is not damaged at all, and it feels as if it is covered with a layer of satin in the hand, which proves that over the years, people who have handled it have treated it as a family treasure.It's really strange how it ended up in an antique shop and was bought as a gift to a blind beggar.

Ke Baisha held the flashlight, only three or four inches away from the music box, carefully observing the outside of the box.Outside there are no signs, no marks.Disappointed, Baisha opened the lid of the box, and almost immediately heard the Scottish bluebells coming out of the music box, filling the deserted room with sweet warmth. Inside the lid, Betha found what she wanted.A small round sticker printed with Bai's Antique Dealer Rare Antiques Buying and Selling. Kebaisha put the music box back in its place, and closing the lid also cut off the sound of the music.She turned back to the door, changed her mind, and walked back to wipe the fingerprints off the inside and outside of the music case.

Pointing the torch at the gate, there was a faint black shadow stretching its teeth and claws on the wall. Baisha knew that the bat must be hungry, or it was eager for human friendship, but she also knew that Ke Baisha was not the blind person. Betha tried to get the bat out of the house so she could lock the door again, but the bat wouldn't go out. Baisha hurried away, and said in her mouth: You stupid Fu, if you don't go out, the door will be locked and you will starve to death. Maybe the bat understood her words, maybe the human voice stimulated it, and the bat flew around her head again.

Baisha drove it away with her hands, get out, she said: I don't like you, you make me nervous, you want to stop on my head and neck again, I What are you going to do?Mrs. Ke?Mi Shanlou's voice said: I am really interested in you now. Baisha jumped up in shock, as if she had stepped on the tip of a needle.She turns around, but fails to find where Officer Mi is hiding at first.Then she saw him, hidden in the shadow of the trellis trellis on the front porch, his elbow resting on the trellis trellis, his cheek resting on the back of his hand.Standing on the ground, he was two feet lower than Baisha who was standing at the door. Ke Baisha looked down at him, and could see the smug look on his face.

Alright, Bai Sha said: If there is something particularly wrong, please tell me. Stealing, Officer Mi said, is a serious crime. Where is this theft?Baisha said. Really?He said: Maybe you have a court warrant, or the law has changed and I don't know, otherwise, break and enter like you just did You may know something about the law.Baisha told him.The so-called theft, you must open and enter, the purpose is to commit theft or commit other serious crimes. Shanlou pondered for a while, then laughed and said: God, I believe you are right. I know I can't be wrong.Bai Sha said: I have been with the most legal minded people in the country for a few years, do you think I did it for nothing!

Another thing is more interesting.What is your purpose in opening and entering this door? Baisha used her brain quickly, and said triumphantly: I must let the bat fly out. oh!Yes!that bat.Mi Shanlou said: I admit that it hurt my brain at one time, and you even named it Ah Fu, right? Yes. Interesting, a domesticated pet, isn't it? Yes. It's getting more and more interesting, are you here to let it out? Yes. Why? I know that no one let it out, it has no food, no water, it will starve to death. Mi Shanlou walked around the corner of the platform in front of the door, walked up the stairs, and stood in front of Baisha, and said: I'm not joking with you, just try to be polite to you.You know, of course, that I ask you these questions not out of curiosity, but out of duty. I know.Baisha said: You are looking for flaws in circles, but you will be boring. I don't like the appearance of broken mouths. Mi Shanlou laughed. Baisha said angrily: It is simply wrong to bring in you, who graduated from Yeji University, to be a policeman. Forget it, Mrs. Ke is not as serious as you said. It's even worse. Well, let's not criticize the police system now.I'm now interested in bats and this one in particular.Ah Fu. Well, what about Ah Fu?I'll tell you what I'm here for. You are here to let Ah Fu out, so you must know that Ah Fu is inside. I think it might be in there. What makes you think so? Gao Langni usually allows bats to come and go freely. He always opens the door by three or four inches with the rubber door stop, and because of the door stop, the wind will not blow the door shut or blow it too far.I was thinking that you stupid people might have locked the door and kept the bats inside. I'm sure we won't do this, I think the bat flew back from the outside after you opened the door. Of course it is possible. I startled you a lot, and you yelled and It's not the same for you, something comes out in the night and grabs your throat. The bat got you. Yes. Interesting, Mrs. Ke.This is the first time I've encountered a bat in a case, and the first time I've known of anyone keeping a bat as a pet. There are many things you haven't seen, you are young! Thanks. How come you happen to be here watching me release the bat? He said: "That just happened to be a coincidence, and I myself am increasingly dissatisfied with the reasoning behind what happened last night.In fact, there is another possibility. Your friend, Mr. Meng Jirui, caught the blind man's words and found that the blind man had something he wanted very much.Instead of picking it up with the blind man, he put the blind man somewhere and fetched it by himself.Clearly he didn't get it.Even if he got it, he didn't take it away from the scene, and everything shows that he was killed by the shotgun trap set there as soon as he entered the door.The trap is made by the blind to kill the blind. Interestingly, we have heard the blind lead the blind, but this time it is the blind killing the blind. You speak slowly.Bai Sha said: Don't worry about me, I have plenty of time. Therefore, police officer Mi said: I have to use my brain at all times for self-examination. When I was in your office this afternoon, a callee paid for you came in to see you. This is nothing surprising.Baisha said: Didn't you answer the long distance call asking you to pay? Shanlou was so proud that he poked his chin forward two inches.He said: The strange thing is that you only listened to this call after you knew who the other party was, so a strange idea came to my mind.After you hung up, we talked quite a bit about Gorani.You didn't say you didn't know where he was after you hung up, but the tone you used was special.You say that you have answered all my questions honestly, and that each question has now been said as much as it can be said. I admit that I didn't figure it out until dinner, it's a very possible situation, but I can't ask my subordinates to do it, send them out, and wait for a night, if there is no result, I will lose face, if there is a result, it will be theirs again .But this possibility is too great. If Meng Jiduan came here looking for something, he failed.You go to see Gao, find out what Meng Jirui wants to take, and come back to find this special thing by yourself. It is too possible and very interesting. Bai Sha said: I didn't take anything. Of course you have to check it out.Shanlou said: Although I don't want to trouble you, I must use my police car to take you to the headquarters, where there will be female police officers who can search you.If you really didn't take anything here, then, of course, the situation is different.If it is found that you have taken something here, you have committed a criminal crime or the crime of theft, and we will detain you.Mrs. Ke, we will at least detain you until you have a very frank statement explaining why you went in before releasing you. Bai Sha said: No, you can't beat me like this, you can't beat me Yes, Mrs. Ko.Officer Mi said kindly: I am now law enforcement.If you didn't take everything inside, of course I can't charge you with burglary unless, as you yourself have just taught me, unless I can prove that you entered the house for the purpose of committing some other felony.It seems that you have read the Complete Book of the Six Laws before entering the house and came prepared. I have no purpose in committing any other felony. I will not forget to investigate this point, but it is also difficult for you to prove that you did not commit other felony attempts to break and enter. Anyway, I declare to you that you are under arrest. Since you understand the law, from now on, you will do anything Not following me to the headquarters is an act of resisting arrest, and resisting arrest itself is a criminal offense. Ke Baisha thought about it, looked at his mask-like face, and saw a trace of triumph behind it.Bai Sha said with interest: Well, you have won. Just leave your car there.Shanlou said: I don't like your idea of ​​throwing away anything on the way to the headquarters.Since you opened the music box and heard the song of the blue bell flower in Scotland, I think the thing you took out of it may be a very small thing, which is easy to hide and throw away.Mrs. Ke, if you don't mind, please go into the room again, so that I can see you when I take the music box. When I get the music box, we can play the main office directly. All right!Baisha said: You are fierce, let's go in together, keep an eye on me, don't blink your eyes. It's not about you, Mrs. Ke, it's just a formality.Well, now if you don't mind, I want you to go ahead and put your hands on your head, I can see your hands.Your flashlight doesn't work very well, you look better at mine. Officer Mi turned on his police flashlight with five dry batteries, and brightly illuminated Bai Sha, who was walking in front, back into the blind man's bungalow.