On this day, I was busy as usual with the props and sets for the troupe. When night falls, I'm going to find a tavern to have a drink to relieve my fatigue.
"Look, that's the master's house!" said a passer-by pointing ahead in horror.
I hurriedly ran to the scene, only to see the female troupe leader Cheng lying at the door, covered in blood. I quickly helped her up and found that she was no longer breathing.
"What's going on?" I asked.
A trace of panic flashed in Xiao Li's eyes, and he stammered, "I...... I didn't know it, but I was about to go home when I suddenly heard an exclamation and rushed over.
I frowned, doubts growing in my heart. The dagger didn't have her fingerprints on it, and she had been rehearsing with the rest of the troupe on the night she was killed, so it was impossible for her to do such a thing.
Over the next few days, I visited Cheng's relatives and friends and investigated her private life. During the investigation, I found that Cheng's temperament was irritable on weekdays, which made his apprentice Xiao Li very dissatisfied.
In casual conversations, I also noticed something was wrong. I heard that Cheng has always had an affair with an unknown man recently, but no one knows the specific details.
I synthesized various clues and found some key clues to solve the case. Soon, I found out that Xiao Li had no motive to kill his class master.
The case was much more complicated than I had imagined, and the truth was gradually emerging.
In the course of the investigation, I also became more and more involved. It's not just about the life of one person, it's about the fate of the entire troupe.
During the course of the investigation, I received an anonymous phone call from someone who claimed to know the identity of the real culprit. I immediately went to the agreed place, a dilapidated house.
After returning to the troupe, I began to re-examine the details of the case and rearrange the clues of the case. Suddenly, an important detail caught my eye, one of Cheng's relatives had had a heated dispute with Cheng and had been at odds with Cheng for a long time.
I began to suspect that he might know more.
This relative's avoidance made me even more convinced of his suspicions, and I decided to pay more attention to his every move.
So, I decided to follow him secretly and collect all his whereabouts. Sure enough, late one night, I witnessed him hiding a few items in his abandoned old house near the troupe, and I quickly recorded them all.
The next day, I found Xiao Li again and explained it all to him. Xiao Li was shocked and said that he knew that this relative had something difficult to hide from Cheng.
We decided to hand it all over to the local police with all the clues and information.
The police launched an investigation, and they found the location of the relative I documented, and found key physical evidence, a murder weapon, and some important evidence, all pointing to this relative.
However, I still can't let go of all this process, as well as the contradictions and entanglements hidden behind it. My heart is still full of uneasiness and doubt, I can feel the contradictions in this family still exist, and these unpleasant events also make me deeply reflect on the power of family affection.
Just as I was basking in the enthusiasm of investigating the case, an anonymous letter broke my peace. The letter accused Cheng's lover, Ma Ning, of being involved in the case.
When Ma Ning was interrogated, he looked flustered, but insisted that it had nothing to do with the case. I decided to keep this core suspect in custody and not let him escape easily.
At the same time, as the investigation deepened, I also found some contradictions in the Cheng family. Cheng's father, Uncle Cheng, enjoyed a high status in the troupe and monopolized the rights of the troupe, and Cheng himself was very dissatisfied with this.
This also made me wonder if Uncle Cheng was also suspicious.
At this time, Uncle Cheng came to me with a heavy expression. He claimed that Ma Ning was a cunning culprit and that he must have deliberately left a scar on Cheng's door to frame her.
The family seemed to be hiding many secrets, and I was deeply entangled in this family struggle.
On the day of Cheng's funeral, everything became even more chaotic. Ma Ning suddenly and mysteriously disappeared, and Uncle Cheng was furious at the funeral, asserting that I was not capable of catching the real culprit, and demanded that Ma Ning be released immediately.
The intrigue of this family is getting stronger and stronger, and everyone is playing with me.
At Cheng's funeral, Xiao Li and Cheng's relatives got together. Suddenly, a stranger whom he had never met before interrupted the funeral.
This news shocked the people present, and even Uncle Cheng was taken aback, with an expression of disbelief on his face.
Cheng Jianguo insisted on participating in the investigation of the case, and he seemed to have a very deep resentment and regret. He said that he had been separated for many years and had been looking for a warm family everywhere, but he was always rejected by the Cheng family.
Now, I have to look at the case again, and the situation has become even more confusing and tangled. I was stuck in it, and I couldn't help myself.