Charming Avalokitesvara

Chapter 5

"Tianyi Pavilion" has not officially opened yet, so apart from the necessary furniture, there is no product in the store. The antique imitation pear wood cabinets are filled with modern glass and lamps. Shao Kuancheng thought, wait until there are full of When you have a variety of collections, it will definitely look good.

Du Huai'an had already put away the black umbrella at the door, shook off the water droplets on it, and placed it on the right hand side of the door.

"Sit down, Officer Shao."

"Thank you."

Shao Kuancheng sat down on the rattan chair in the room, and there was a square table in front of him. In addition to the chair he was sitting on, there were a total of four chairs, which must have been prepared for the guests to rest.

Du Huai'an took a towel from behind the counter and handed it to him: "Wipe your hair! It's easy to catch a cold in this weather."

Shao Kuancheng took it over and professionally observed the other party's slender fingers. There were some inconspicuous calluses and small wounds between the fingers, just like the fake small peddler's hand that he could often see on Treasure Street. Mark of.

Slender fingertips are easier to handle fine details in imitations, while cocoons are left over from long-term work, and small wounds are probably caused by accidental injuries with carving knives or tweezers.

The wound was fresh, very recent.

Shao Kuancheng made a precise guess while wiping his hair.His mentor once said that he is a genius, not only in the appreciation of cultural relics, but in all aspects related to cultural relics.

God is fair. If he is given special talents in one aspect, he will take back his talents in other aspects. This is probably why he is not outstanding as a policeman.

Du Huai'an said very little, and he didn't try to please him as he said. He just turned on the water dispenser, took out a disposable cup and tea from the cabinet under the counter, held them in his hand, paused for two seconds, and then asked : "Is Pu'er good?"

"I don't know much about tea." Shao Kuancheng admitted generously: "Basically, no matter how good the tea is, it's like plain boiled water to me."

Du Huai'an smiled shallowly, probably because of his frankness.

"Then I'll make you tea with disposable cups and purified water, and I feel much more at ease."

Neither of them is particularly particular, and this cognition makes people feel a lot more comfortable.

Then the two fell into silence for a while, but they didn't feel embarrassed at all.Du Huai'an sat on the high chair behind the counter, squeezed some tea into the cup, and then quietly waited for the water to boil, looking very quiet.

The door panel cut off the sound of the heavy rain outside, but a small part still got in, tick-tock-tick-tick.A small gap was exposed in each window, so as not to allow rainwater to seep in, but it also produced convective air very well, and the room did not feel dull at all.

The water dispenser stopped. Du Huai'an poured hot water into the cup, and then handed the cup to Shao Kuancheng.

Shao Kuancheng took it in a friendly manner. The disposable paper cup could not block the heat of the boiling water. The heat penetrated from the fingertips to the limbs, and the body that was almost completely cooled by the rain immediately warmed up.

The water was too hot to enter, so Shao Kuancheng just held it in his hand like a well-behaved child and put it on the tip of his nose. The white mist rose up and was dispersed by the breath from the tip of his nose.

The two chatted with each other.

"What date are you going to open?"

"Let's drive it when you're ready!" Du Huai'an said, "I don't want to make a big fuss, please come and have a seat, just let it be lively."

"Are you alone? Didn't you hire a helper or something?"

"I don't know what it will be like when I just opened the business. I'm afraid I won't be able to pay the salary if I hire someone."

"You can also ask your relatives or friends to help you."

Du Huai'an was silent for a long time, so long that Shao Kuancheng couldn't help but guess, did he realize that he was intentionally or unintentionally extorting his information?

"I have no relatives," Du Huai'an said, "and no friends."

Shao Kuancheng was stunned for a while, opened his mouth and was about to say something when the phone rang.

Shao Kuancheng glanced at the caller ID, silently placed the phone farthest from his ear, and pressed the answer button.

The head of the cultural relics inspection brigade shouted at him like an angry lion on the phone: "Shao Kuancheng! Where have you slipped away for me again! You should contact Captain Li immediately! Something happened!"

"No, captain!" Shao Kuancheng didn't seem to take this matter seriously, and was a little slack: "Captain Li is the first criminal investigation department! I mean the Cultural Relics Inspection Brigade! It's impossible to beat it!"

"You bastard! Don't be lazy!" The team leader has long been accustomed to Shao Kuancheng's unprogressive attitude, and still yelled at him in anger: "In short, you kid, let me go to work!"

"Hurry up and go to work" is such a serious order that it can be said as if "Your boy, hurry up and pick up the guest for me", no wonder people always comment on the people in their cultural relics inspection brigade as "the top beam is not upright and the bottom beam is crooked".

"All right, all right! I'll go now!" Shao Kuancheng hung up the phone, then stood up from his chair, and said to Du Huai'an, "It seems that I can only drink the tea you made next time!"

"Work is important." Du Huai'an smiled "it's okay" at him, and then said to him as if he had thought of something, "Wait a minute."

After speaking, he walked behind the counter, took out a boxy raincoat from the cabinet, and handed it to him.

To be honest, Shao Kuancheng was a little moved.

He always feels that he is a careless old man, whether it is work or life, he has a rain or shine attitude, which seems to be a habit he has developed since he was in middle school.And his first love girlfriend was a girl who was more manly than him, and they were both too young during the time when they met each other day and night, so it had nothing to do with words like caring and considerate.

Shao Kuancheng thought, Du Huai'an was the first person besides his mother to give him a raincoat.

"Thank you!" Shao Kuancheng accepted the other party's kind care and said, "I will pay you back tomorrow!"

"When did you come, just return it to me." Du Huai'an said. "Anyway, I'm not in a hurry, and you don't have to come here just for a raincoat."

"I'm on the way!" Shao Kuancheng gave him a playful smile: "I'll help you move, in return for taking me in today, and return the raincoat along the way."

"Really not..."

"That's the deal!" Shao Kuancheng made the agreement on his own, and then pushed open the door. The rain was blowing in sideways, so he hurried out and closed the door.

Before leaving on the motorcycle, he waved at Du Huai'an by the window and shouted, "See you tomorrow!"

The wheels of the motorcycle splashed a large amount of water, Du Huai'an stood by the window for a while, and then went into the house.

Seems like a big trouble in shelter.

He rubbed his eyebrows and thought.

After Shao Kuancheng left, he braved the heavy rain on the road and made a call to Li Jin with his earphones on, got an address, and then drove there.

The place he went to was a high-end neighborhood, very far from the city center, and he even refueled his motorcycle once on the way.

Most of the residents in this community are celebrities, such as celebrities, entrepreneurs, politicians, etc., so the daily management is very strict, and the residents rarely inquire about each other's lives. Everyone seems to know some of them. The rules, and on the surface, are well executed.

It took a lot of effort for Shao Kuancheng to get inside, and he could really feel that something serious happened, because there were several police cars parked in the community, including those from the criminal investigation team and special vehicles for forensic evidence.

Shao Kuancheng went up to the designated floor, and the door of the house was cordoned off, and a pungent smell of corruption wafted from the house.

Shao Kuancheng walked in after showing his ID. Li Jin greeted him when he saw him: "Xiao Shao, come here!"

Shao Kuancheng walked towards him, and Li Jin took a sealed sample bag from the forensic officer and asked him, "Come and see, is this the same thing as last time?"

Inside the sample bag is a wooden "Avalokitesvara".

Shao Kuancheng finally knew why Li Jin let him come.

Although this charming Avalokitesvara statue is different in size from the one at the scene of Chen Zhuan's suicide, Shao Kuancheng has observed the previous Avalokitesvara statue back and forth countless times, and he can be sure that this The Avalokitesvara statue was made by the same person as the previous one.

Shao Kuancheng took a look at the deceased. He had also seen this deceased. His name was Fu Zaiyu, and he was a well-known collector in T City. His collection was once featured on a TV station, so Shao Kuancheng recognized him.

Taking this opportunity, Shao Kuancheng was able to take a closer look at Fu Zaiyu's home.

Fu Zaiyu lived in a house with four bedrooms and two living rooms, nearly 180 square meters, which was undoubtedly too big for a single man, but Shao Kuancheng did not feel empty at all, because his home was filled with all kinds of collections, some of which were genuine antiques , and some of them are excellent modern works of art.There is no doubt that Fu Zaiyu is a person with very high aesthetics. Even if the things in his collection are not of such high age value, most of them are very beautiful and exquisite.

And Fu Zaiyu lay flat on the ground, his body was already rotted, but a bone dagger stuck in his chest could still be seen.The blade is sinuous S-shaped, the handle is zigzag, and most of the slender blade is buried in the chest. Shao Kuancheng seems to be able to see the sharp tip of the blade through his skin.

"According to the preliminary judgment of the coroner, he died five days ago." Li Jin said. "There were no traces of fighting at the scene. Judging from the angle of the knife hilt and the way the backhand was inserted, he committed suicide."

"Archaeologists have discovered that the earliest bone daggers appeared in the Neolithic Age, thousands of years ago." Shao Kuancheng said, "Captain Li, look around and look at the collection cabinets in Fu Zaiyu's house. Take a look at the collections on it, you can even ask Forensic to touch it with white gloves to see if you can touch a trace of dust from those things."

Li Jin didn't understand what he meant, but he still found a forensic certificate and followed Shao Kuancheng's wishes. When the forensic certificate came back, he stretched out his hands, and the white gloves were still as clean as new.

"Captain Li, the doors and windows of Fu Zaiyu's house are closed tightly, because there are many cultural relics that are very fragile, and they are easily eroded and weathered by the air-I know the smell inside is a bit unpleasant, but you can ask that colleague to put the Are the windows closed?"

Li Jin followed Shao Kuancheng's gaze, and sure enough, he saw a little policeman standing in front of a half-open window, his face a little embarrassed.

Li Jin shouted at him: "You idiot! What are you doing! Close the window!"

The little policeman quickly closed the window.

"Very good, let's continue." Shao Kuancheng nodded with satisfaction: "Fu Zaiyu likes his collection very much, I guess he has to wipe his collection at least once a day, even if he dies there may be... five days, but because of his He cleaned the house spotlessly, and the doors and windows of his house were closed, so these collections are still clean."

After Shao Kuancheng finished speaking, he looked at Li Jin: "Captain Li, tell me that a person who cherishes his collection so much will commit suicide with a bone dagger that may be 2000-5000 years old? Let the iron in his blood slow down Slowly corrode this [-]% glossy bone dagger?"

Li Jin stared at him, opened his mouth and moved, before convincing himself: "Maybe...he felt that at the moment when he had nothing to love in his life and decided to commit suicide, there should be a sacrificial object? You know Yes...these fetishists are a little out of their minds."

"Captain Li, believe me, Fu Zaiyu can't find a reason why he has nothing to love."

Just like Chen Zhuan, he had a successful life, but he still went to death.

However, Fu Zaiyu's death undoubtedly made him start to doubt whether Chen Zhuan's death was suicide.

And did the wooden Guanyin statue left behind at the scene lead them to investigate the distant disappearance that year?