Chapter 14

"You read his palm?" Qi Fei looked like he understood very well.

Zhong Kui smiled knowingly: "It seems that during the time we didn't see each other, you did your homework. It's not a good thing for a policeman to be interested in fortune-telling and physiognomy."

Qi Fei didn't expect that when he heard this, he actually felt a trace of joy, like a student who had done his homework well and was praised.

However, Zhong Kui soon denied his statement: "Unfortunately, I couldn't read his palm. Yang Jinhan had no palm prints at all."

If it were anyone else, they wouldn't know what Zhong Kui's words meant, but Qi Fei, as a policeman, reacted immediately: "His hands were burned?"

"His hands were clearly burned, and interestingly, only his hands were burned," Zhong Kui reminded him deliberately.

Qi Fei really knew: "I handled an arson case. The suspect burned his hands when he splashed gasoline and lit the fire. Are you saying Yang Jinhan had a criminal record of arson?"

"That depends on your investigation. I only know that when I told him I saw a big fire burning on him, he suddenly got angry and smashed an incense burner on my table. Heh, really annoying!" Zhong Kui was still brooding over it, acting like a spoiled child.

Hearing this, a trace of cold suspicion flashed in Qi Fei's eyes, and then he said somewhat deliberately: "Did you tell Gu Ruyun that Yang Jinhan committed arson?"

"If I told you I didn't tell her, would you start suspecting me again?" Zhong Kui predicted Qi Fei's prediction again.

That's right, he remembered what the hunchbacked old woman told him. The Gu family made a wish to Huang Daxian to let Yang Jinhan die, but why he was burned to death was worth pondering.

"I heard Yang Jinhan threatened the Gu family with a gasoline bucket. Wasn't it the first time he did this?" Wu Shanqiu said from the side.

"The old street where the Gu family lives hasn't had a fire for many years. This place is humid and not prone to fire," Zhong Kui said immediately.

"So, you mean Yang Jinhan's arson behavior didn't happen here."

"Only Gu Ruyun thought her husband was possessed by a ghost. I think the one who is weird is this Yang Jinhan himself." As she said this, Zhong Kui suddenly grabbed Qi Fei's hand. Her cold fingers touched Qi Fei's palm, making him trance back to the scene on the steps of the Central Garden, and his ears turned red instantly.

But Zhong Kui focused on questioning him: "If it were you, and these hands were burned so badly that even the palm prints were gone, would you still carry a gasoline bucket to threaten others to set a fire?"

This question was enlightening, giving Qi Fei a new understanding of the "born bad seed" she said at the beginning: "That is to say, he not only committed arson before but also had no remorse."

"I think, more importantly, he once successfully threatened others in this way. People are always accustomed to repeating behaviors that brought success before," Zhong Kui supplemented Qi Fei's words.

The two chatted back and forth, and it seemed that even the fog outside the guest hall had retreated a little.

"Yang Jinhan died of burns, so no one found the old burns on his hands. Fortunately, you had seen them," Qi Fei said sincerely, but after saying this, his hand still pulled away from Zhong Kui's fingertips, "I still have to ask you, where were you on the day Yang Jinhan was burned?"

"Heh, you don't need to ask me this. Just ask the people in Sanwu Town. That day was the first day of the month, the day I tell fortunes, and I never break an appointment," Zhong Kui said without a guilty conscience.

"But you knew Yang Jinhan would die, just like you knew Zhu Ming'en would die. Otherwise, you wouldn't have taken the Gu family's money," Qi Fei said seriously.

"Haha, I'm a fortune teller, of course I can calculate it. Taking money for fortune-telling doesn't seem to be against the law, right? And they really died. I can't even count it as fraud," Zhong Kui said righteously, making even Qi Fei, who was always agile in thinking, speechless.

After speaking, Zhong Kui had already stood up: "It's getting late. The night in Sanwu Town is very dark, and it's not something you city people will like. The Gu family's money wasn't spent in vain. After Yang Jinhan died, Gu Ruyun has already recovered. She is living a very healthy life alone now and has fallen in love with running. She will pass by this temple gate at six o'clock every morning, rain or shine."

"Wow, that means we can just wait here tomorrow morning and find Gu Ruyun to ask questions?" Wu Shanqiu said immediately.

Just as Zhong Kui said, the night in Sanwu Town was really too quiet, so quiet that Qi Fei could hear strange wind sounds and the roars of wild beasts in the mountains in the distance. He tossed and turned all night, half-dreaming and half-awake until dawn.

At six o'clock, the morning light gradually rose, finally driving away the heavy fog.

Wu Shanqiu obviously didn't sleep well either, with heavy dark circles under her eyes, and met Qi Fei at the gate of the Huang Daxian Temple.

Sure enough, after a while, in the thin fog, a slender figure moved toward them, and soon Gu Ruyun appeared in front of them in sportswear.

If Zhong Kui hadn't said it the night before, Qi Fei might not have recognized that this person was the same Gu Ruyun they had seen when they came here to investigate a year ago.

A year ago, Gu Ruyun was slightly fat, with a bloated and haggard face, but now the sun shone on her face, looking vibrant.

Gu Ruyun, who was too focused on running, obviously didn't notice these two people until Qi Fei blocked her way.

Gu Ruyun took off her headphones and recognized them, saying calmly: "My dad said you came over. I thought you had already gone back," her tone much more confident than before.

"There are some new situations regarding Yang Jinhan's death, and we want to find you to understand more information," Qi Fei said.

Gu Ruyun heard this, but didn't look very excited, instead sighing: "I know you suspect my family, but we've said it many times. When that person was splashed with gasoline, our whole family was in town, and the neighbors can testify. We can't teleport, right?"

"I believe his death has nothing to do with you. We just want to understand more background about him, for example, how you met. Yang Jinhan is not from Sanwu Town, right?" Qi Fei said patiently.

Gu Ruyun furrowed her brow: "Since I didn't kill him, does it matter how I met him?"

"It matters, because he might have hurt others," Qi Fei said solemnly.

Gu Ruyun was stunned, seemingly taking time to understand Qi Fei's words, and then murmured:

"Daxian said he was a born bad seed. It seems it's really true..."

"Hmm, I heard he disguised himself very well when he first met you," Qi Fei deliberately used the word "disguise," and this sentence successfully opened Gu Ruyun's heart.