Chun Xia shook her head with a bitter face, "I have only learned a few characters from you since I was a child, but they are only enough for daily life. How can I read any books?
Moreover, as for the book placed here, I remember that the girl never asked me to take it out. I only vaguely caught a glimpse of its cover when I took the travel notes next to it.

That…that book’s cover is apricot yellow, and the title is written in the upper left corner. It has three characters. I only vaguely remember that the last character is…Ji, my own Ji!”

己？
Everyone looked puzzled.

It is quite rare to find a book title containing the word "己".

"Not me."

Su Liuyue's voice suddenly rang out. She looked at the yamen runner who was in charge of recording not far away, asked him for paper and pen, wrote a note neatly on it, and held it up for Chunxia to see.

Chun Xia said immediately: "That's the word! That's the word! Although I don't recognize this word, I recognize that one side of it is my own self!"

When it comes to Chinese characters, when you encounter an unfamiliar character, just read the half that you know. This is truly a universal rule throughout the ages!

It turns out to be a record!

There are so many book titles containing the word "ji"!

Even these uneducated people know that a book title like "XX Ji" could be a story, or it could be a description of scenery or things! The great scholar Gu Jijiu once wrote a praised "Stone Records". On the surface, it is about stones, but in fact it expresses Gu Jijiu's feelings about the passage of time and the changes of the world.

It is not easy to find this book among thousands or tens of thousands of "notes"!
Seeing everyone frowning, Lu Lu couldn't help but ask, "But... why did the murderer take this book? Could it be that this book is related to him?"

Su Liuyue nodded affirmatively, "There are only two possibilities for the murderer to take this book away on purpose. One, this book may reveal his identity, and two... this book has a special meaning to him!

Miss Chunxia said that Miss Zhong only bought four books when she sneaked out last time. This book must have been something Miss Zhong got recently, but it was not one of the four books she bought. It is very likely that... this book was given to Miss Zhong by the murderer!"

Su Liuyue said, turning to Chunxia again, "You said, Li Erlang would usually ask people to buy books for Miss Zhong. Has he sent any new books in the past half month?"

Chun Xia shook her head quickly, "No... After the girl ran away that time, Li Erlang was very angry and kept her in the cold for almost ten days. How could he ask someone to send something over? It wasn't until... six days ago that he came here again, but that time, the girl and him didn't have a good time, and Li Erlang left in a huff within half an hour."

It was precisely because of Li Erlang's attitude that Nanny Wei and Yundou became even more perfunctory towards their girl. This time, they didn't even notice that the girl was murdered in the room!
Su Liuyue immediately said, "You and Miss Zhong are not allowed to leave this courtyard on weekdays. In other words, the only people who can send things in are Wei Mama, Yundou and Li Erlang. If this book was not sent in by the three of them, it means..."

She paused and said, "The murderer may have given the book to Miss Zhong when he met her leaving the courtyard more than half a month ago."

Chun Xia was startled and subconsciously wanted to refute. She opened her mouth, but then thought of something and stammered, "This... This is not impossible... After buying the books from Qingfeng Bookstore, the bag of books was always in the girl's hands. Until the girl disappeared and was found by the servant, the bag of books was still well carried by the girl..."

Those books were well wrapped in oil paper. If the murderer had opened the package, put a new book in it and wrapped it up again, there was no way she would have known!
After returning, the girl took off the oil paper herself and put the book into the bookcase.

Everyone was more confused after hearing this. Feng Dali, who always hated books, said with a painful face: "This time the murderer is quite elegant. He even made friends with the deceased through books..." Su Liuyue heard this and suddenly looked up at him and said: "You may be right. When Lu Dutou told me about the situation of the first deceased, I had a question - the murderer tied the deceased's hands at the beginning. From the scars on the deceased's hands, I can see that he tied them for quite a while. What was he doing during that time?"

Everyone was stunned and looked at each other.

They have never thought about this question!

Sun Zhaoan tentatively said: "According to past experience, the criminals who usually control the deceased first and are not in a hurry to kill him usually want to torture the deceased for a while..."

"But our murderer did not torture the deceased."

Su Liuyue raised her eyebrows slightly and said, "Except for the mark on the neck and the fatal wound on the chest, the deceased had no other scars on their bodies. The murderer did not even defile them, and he carefully helped them put on their bright red wedding dresses.

The murderer brought the deceased’s wedding dress, and the size of the dress just fit their bodies, but…the shoes he brought did not fit the deceased’s feet at all, which means that the murderer had close contact with the deceased, but their relationship was not close, at least not close enough for the other person to see his feet. "

Although the customs in Daqing are open, some private parts of women cannot be shown to outsiders, including their feet.

“And Miss Zhong may have only had one contact with the murderer.

This shows what? "

Su Liuyue paused and said in a deep voice: "This shows that the murderer can accurately measure the woman's body shape with just his eyes. He is probably a tailor, a clothing store owner, or someone who does something related to sewing clothes.

Judging from the fact that he was probably literate, his family should not be poor, and the latter two situations are more likely.

Such a murderer must be very familiar with all kinds of clothes. He must have spent a short time dressing the two dead in wedding clothes. In addition to dressing them in wedding clothes, he must have done something else to the two dead! "

Feng Dali frowned and said, "The murderer did not beat or abuse the deceased, nor did he defile them. What else could he do to these two dead people?"

Thinking of what Miss Su San had just said, that his casual remark of "making friends through books" might have been correct, he slightly opened his eyes and said incredulously: "This guy, is he discussing the contents of the book with the two dead people?"

This murderer... is really weird!

The more Feng Dali spoke, the more he seemed to have found some kind of feeling. He took a breath and said, "Speaking of which, the murderer strangled the victims' necks before stabbing the knife into their chests, but the two victims were not strangled to death. This means that the murderer controlled his emotions at the critical moment and took his hands back. This also shows that strangling the victims with his hands was not the way the murderer wanted to kill them. It is very likely that he just lost control for a while.

He suddenly lost control, could it be because... the process of making friends through books was not going smoothly?" (End of this chapter)