Chapter 76 Maybe She Thinks I'm Stupid
"The deceased, Gu Chang, female, 25 years old, returned from Switzerland three days ago. She was found by a neighbor who was walking her dog at 8:05 this morning. The door was open at the time, and Gu Chang, wearing a costume, could be seen on the stage at a glance."
"The cause of death was initially determined to be suicide... At the scene, Su He and his friends left a large number of fingerprints and footprints. Combined with their confessions and the time of death, we can basically rule them out as suspects..."
"In addition, unknown footprints were found on the edge of the stage... There were traces of being wiped and covered up, only half of it was left, and we can only speculate that it was a size 42 men's leather shoe..."
"With this half footprint... maybe this is not a simple suicide..."
After Zhou Bing finished speaking, he sat down.
At this time, the director asked: "Have you contacted Gu Chang's relatives?"
Another police officer replied: "Gu Chang's parents passed away five years ago. Three months ago, her only relative, her grandfather Gu Hexuan, died of illness..."
"Gu Hexuan was a famous master of the Gu School in the 1960s. He was a master of Qingyi, Huadan, and Daomadan. He performed in a troupe. At that time, it was hard to get a ticket to the Deyuan Theater... Later, for some unknown reason, his family moved away and there has been no news since then..."
It is obviously not enough to infer that it was a homicide based on only half a footprint with unclear features.
At this time, someone said, "Could it be that Gu Chang lost her relatives and suffered from depression and wanted to commit suicide? Since she grew up with Gu Hexuan and heard a lot of stories about Deyuan Grand Theater, she came back here on purpose to commit suicide?"
"According to Su He and the others, Gu Chang is a cheerful person who loves life. In her room, we also found her plans for the future of Deyuan Theater. It doesn't seem like she came back deliberately to commit suicide..."
The police are currently checking Gu Chang’s belongings, but have not yet found a suicide note or other special items.
There was a brief silence in the conference room, and the director suddenly looked up and asked, "What is Su He doing now?"
"sleep…"
The director tapped the table lightly and said, "Start by checking the nearby surveillance cameras and looking for suspicious targets... As for Su He, since he has been ruled out as a suspect, if he is willing to investigate, let him investigate!"
Deyuan Theater is located in an old alley, surrounded by old houses. Only a few elderly people still live here, and there are hardly any surveillance cameras to be found.
Walking out of the meeting room, Zhou Bing came to Su He, who was lying on a chair and sleeping.
"The bureau has approved your assistance to the police. Get up and stop pretending to be asleep..."
Su He didn't move, Zhou Bing turned and left: "If you don't want to, forget it..."
"Stop!" Su He sat up immediately and said, "I want to see the file..."
Zhou Bing turned around and glared at Su He.
Su He scratched his head and said, "Officer Zhou, please let me see the file!"
Zhou Bing put all the information on the table and said, "I forgot one thing. In Gu Chang's phone , the note for you was number two. What does it mean?"
Su He's hand was suspended in the air, he was stunned for a moment, then said: "Maybe she thinks I'm stupid..."
Turning to the first page, there was a photo of Gu Chang wearing a theatrical costume, the outfit of Concubine Yu in "Farewell My Concubine". Gu Chang was sitting there, blood flowing from her wrist. She lowered her head, and in her other hand was a green fruit knife.
Green fruit knife!
When cleaning yesterday afternoon , Gu Chang needed a knife, so she took an exquisite knife from the house. The fruit knife in the photo is the cheap plastic fruit knife that is very common in supermarkets.
Gu Chang is a wealthy woman and would not buy such a fruit knife!
There were only Gu Chang's fingerprints on the fruit knife. Turning to the second page, there was a close-up of Gu Chang's face. She did not look painful or distorted, but sad. Her tears had smudged her makeup.
Gu Chang cried. Was it because of the pain from the wound or the pain in her heart?
Continuing to look further, there were no other clues except that half footprint.
After telling Officer Zhou about the fruit knife, Su He left the Public Security Bureau.
At the door, Ma Mingzhe and the other two were riding electric bikes. When they saw Su He coming out, they hurriedly asked, "Su He, what happened? Why did Miss Gu commit suicide?"
"Who told you it was suicide?"
Su He found the battery car that the police had brought back from the carport and said, "Don't worry about this matter, just go and deliver the food!"
After saying that, Su He rode away on his bike.
After turning a corner, Su He found that Ma Mingzhe and the other two were still following him, so he stopped and said, "I'm fine... You guys go and do your work first, we'll have a drink tonight..."
"Su He, was Miss Gu murdered? I can't finish this drink. Do you want to find the murderer? Let's go with you. More people means more care!"
Finding the murderer? Just based on half a footprint?
"Okay, are you guys annoying? Catching the murderer is the police's job, so stop making trouble. I'm going to deliver the food..."
Su He took out his mobile phone, accepted two orders, and really went to deliver the takeaway.
After delivering two orders, Su He rode his bike to the entrance of Deyuan Theater.
There was a cordon at the entrance, a seal from the Public Security Bureau on the door, and the poster recruiting Peking Opera actors had been torn down.
Not far away, a few middle-aged women were gathered together chatting, and Su He rode his bike slowly over.
"This theater is really weird... It was closed because someone died here..."
"That's right... It's haunted, and no one in the village dares to get close... I didn't expect the younger generation of the Gu family to come back... and commit suicide within a few days. There are some things that should be avoided..."
When they saw a stranger coming, the aunties stopped talking.
Su He grinned and asked, "Sisters, I'm a delivery man... Is there an old man with a cane, gray hair, and the last name of Ji here?"
"Old man Ji? Go through three turns in the alley, turn left and keep going. There is a big magnolia tree in front of the door... But he is usually taking a walk outside at this time..."
"Thank you sisters... What you guys were talking about just now was really creepy, like suicide and ghosts... There are no ghosts in this world..."
"Handsome guy, don't disbelieve me... It's that Deyuan Theater, it's really weird. A child from our village got lost before. It was raining heavily that night, and on the stage... there was a woman in costume singing... Many people saw it... and she disappeared in the blink of an eye..."
"The child was found behind the theater... He fell seriously ill after returning home. Let me tell you, many people died here... They were all opera singers..."
"Handsome guy, you are so good-looking. Are you married? I have a niece who is 22 years old. She is a good match for you!"
"Sister Zhao, your niece Juanjuan weighs more than 200 pounds, handsome boy, my daughter is beautiful and has a good figure..."
"Why are you talking like that? If you're looking for a wife, it's better to choose a bigger one..."
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Seeing that a fight was about to break out, Su He hurriedly ran away: "Sisters, I have something else to do, so I'll leave first. Bye..."
