From doomsday survival to fast-forward daily life

Tian Yu returned to Xichuan Road. During the time when she "disappeared", Xichuan Road was calm and peaceful. Liang Jie and Liu Xin had already returned to Xichuan Road.

Passing by an open shop, Tian Yu was greeting people. Seeing Sister Wang coming downstairs to buy groceries, Tian Yu went up to her and started chatting with her.

Sister Wang wondered where Tian Yu went yesterday. She said directly that she was preparing to go out for a walk early in the morning, but she met Sister Zhong's husband. So she sent her a message saying that she played indoors too late yesterday and simply stayed outside.

The two gossiped for a while, and Sister Wang said that Sister Zhong and her husband had quarreled again in front of everyone yesterday, and she even shouted that she wanted a divorce.

Tian Yu knew that the two of them were probably acting for others to see, and Sister Zhong knew exactly where her husband had gone.

After taking Liang Jie's computer, Tian Yu vandalized the scene to make it look like she had been robbed, but when she came back she found Liang Jie as usual and no one even talked about the incident.

Liang Jie did not call the police.

When one's rights are violated but one does not speak out, this is usually enough to show that the victim is afraid and wants to cover up something, or, like the incident of Tian Yu and Wang Wei taking secret photos that day, they have reached some kind of deal.

The reason why Liang Jie did not call the police could not be the second one.

This morning at the hotel, Tian Yu tried to unlock Liang Jie's computer, but was blocked by the password without any hint. The keys on the keyboard were no longer as easy to guess as those on a mobile phone.

The clues on hand were numerous and messy, but new ideas had been opened up. The decision letter of non-punishment found in Sister Zhong's home opened up new clues for her mission.

Since Zhong Ling had been investigated, it meant that there was indeed something else behind Chu Yi's parents' suicide. Why was Zhong Ling not punished? Tian Yu called the police station in his hometown in the clothing store.

"Hello, my name is Chui, I would like to ask about..."

After hanging up the phone, while waiting for a response, Tian Yu began to think about another thing - Jiang Jian.

Now any slight movement happening on Xichuan Road is worthy of suspicion. Why did Jiang Jian go to the hospital?

Before leaving Xichuan Road last night, Tian Yu took a sneak peek at the door lock of Jiang Jian's house. There was no possibility of breaking in, and even unlocking it would take some effort. However, there were other ways to find out about Jiang Jian.

Tian Yu stood up and walked towards Liu Xin's barber shop.

When Liu Xin saw Tian Yu coming over, her expression was indifferent. It seemed that the incident of not getting a discount and being ridiculed at the mahjong table had not yet passed in her mind.

Tian Yu ignored all that and said directly: "I want to perm my hair."

She directly chose the most expensive potion, which made Liu Xin smile immediately.

"Take the customer to wash his hair first, and don't rub his scalp!" Liu Xin instructed the apprentice.

The apprentice from Liu Xin's shop came over to take care of Chu Yi's hair first, and Liu Xin directly said that she would do the curling herself later.

Lying on the shampooing chair, Tian Yu slowly asked the apprentice: "What is the relationship between your boss and that Jiang Jian?"

The apprentice seemed a little timid, hesitating and unable to explain clearly.

"Don't be afraid, just tell me quietly and I'll give you a red envelope later." Tian Yu tempted directly.

"The boss doesn't allow us to talk about it outside..." Faced with the gossip about Tian Yu, the apprentice still didn't dare to speak carelessly.

Tian Yu understood, if he didn't say anything, then he had something to say: "So your boss is single?"

"Yes." The apprentice nodded.

When perming her hair, Liu Xin came over and prepared to curl Tian Yu's hair herself.

Watching Liu Xin putting on gloves layer by layer, Tian Yu asked, "Boss Liu, do you take such good care of your hands?"

Liu Xin seemed stunned when she heard this: "Medicine hurts your hands, and the skin will peel off easily, so wear more layers."

Tian Yu didn't say anything else. She noticed that Liu Xin's fingers were extremely slender. There was no manicure on her beautiful fingers, and the nails were trimmed very short.

Perming hair is a time-consuming task. Just when Tian Yu was about to fall asleep, the apprentice finally led her to wash off the medicine.

"What song was your boss humming just now? It's quite nice." Tian Yu suddenly said.

"Ah?" The apprentice was obviously a little confused. After thinking for a while, he said, "Our boss has never sung a song..."

"Really? Maybe I heard it wrong. It must be someone else humming." Tian Yu stopped asking questions.

After washing her hair, Tian Yu suddenly asked, "Where is your toilet? I have a stomachache."

"Go up this way," the apprentice led Tian Yu to the stairs, "It's on the right."

After going upstairs, Tian Yu observed that Liu Xin usually lived upstairs. He glanced at the door lock and thought it was unlikely that it could be opened quietly.

With a new curly hairstyle, Tian Yu appeared in the mahjong hall.

Sister Lin came up and looked around: "It looks a bit old..."

"At my age, I need a more mature hairstyle." Tian Yu replied.

"You've only just started, and you're thinking of becoming mature already? What should we do then?" Sister Lin said with a smile.

"I think Liu Xin is about the same age as me, and her hairstyle looks pretty good," said Tian Yu.

"Indeed, you two should be about the same age. She seems to be two or three years older than you." Sister Lin recalled, "What's your zodiac sign?"

......

Late at night, watching the countdown ticking away, Tian Yu slowly wrote down his discoveries during this period of time.

In her constant investigation and probing, she had always overlooked the case from fourteen years ago. Now looking back, Wang Wei lived on Xichuan Road fourteen years ago. Could it be that he had any intersection with the deceased?

After dividing the people on Xichuan Road, Tian Yu found that there were obvious differences in age.

Liu Xin and Chu Yi are around 30 years old. No one knows Liang Jie’s age and it is difficult to tell just by looking at her face.

The rest of the people including Sister Zhong and Wang Wei should be in their forties or fifties.

Jiang Jian should be in between the two.

Zhong Ling and Wang Ran are from the younger generation.

The disputes among the young people were related to the middle-aged people, and then attracted Chui. From the current situation, Chui seemed to have the least connection with the case fourteen years ago, and all the others might be related to the case fourteen years ago.

Wang Wei was murdered, and now the biggest suspects are Sister Zhong and her husband. As long as we know the cause of Zhong Ling's death and wait for a reply from the police in Chu Yi's hometown, we will know the grudge between Sister Zhong and her husband and the Wang family.

Then why was there such a strange arrangement at the corpse scene?

Such a scene seems somewhat perverted, full of some kind of mysterious sense of ritual. Could the murderer and the one who arranged the scene be the same person?

Is this scene a way to vent anger? Does it have a special meaning? Or is it to divert attention?

Tian Yu opened the forum and looked at the messages below the post she made a few days ago. She felt that she had found a breakthrough in the scene of Wang Wei's death...