Regarding the issue of sleeping in separate beds, even Chen Erhu did not avoid it.

"On the night of January 28th, before Ran Shijie knocked on the door, was there anything unusual in the courtyard?"

"We didn't hear anything." Bao Peizhu said.

"We didn't hear anything other than a cat meow." Mother said.

There are only two possibilities for a cat to bark at night, one, the cat is in estrus, and two, someone has alarmed it. We all know that spring is the estrus period of cats, at least, cats are rarely in heat in winter, cats chirp in winter nights, there is only one possibility, that is, someone walks in the yard and aisles, alarming it.

"Auntie, can you remember when the cat meowed?"

"The time when the cat called, an hour before Ran Shijie called the door, more than three o'clock. I called it twice, with a half-cup of tea in between. ”

"Auntie, you have a really good memory."

"It's not that I have a good memory, I wake up at three o'clock every night, so I can hear it well and remember it clearly."

"Where are the cats?"

"It's Jiang Feng's cat - he has three cats. This yard is full of old houses, and there are a lot of rats. Since Jiang Feng started raising three cats, the rats have not been as noisy as before. ”

"How many years have you lived here?"

"We moved in in 1969. Jiang Fengqi lived here for the longest time, he lived here before he was decentralized, and when he returned to the city in 1975, he lived again. Feng Qi and Ran Ruzhai are relatively close, the two of them often play chess together, and Ran Ruzhai's hair has always been Jiang Feng's haircut. "The old man is very talkative.

"During Jiang Fengqi's devolution, was his family's house always empty?" Ouyang Ping had already read all the materials, and he knew a little bit about Jiang Fengqi's situation.

"The house where Jiang Fengqi lives is not clean, and almost no one dares to live in it." Bao Peizhu said.

"Why isn't it clean?"

"Hanged people -- more than one."

"Since it's not clean, why does Jiang Fengqi still live in it?"

"He doesn't believe in ghosts. There is such a thing as ghosts and gods, and if you don't believe it, you don't have it. ”

Ouyang Ping pulled the topic back at the right time: "Have you ever seen this kind of button on someone's clothes?" Ouyang Ping motioned for Li Wenhua to take out the buttons.

Li Wenhua took out a plastic bag from the bag, opened the mouth of the plastic bag, and poured out a button from it.

Bao Peizhu took the button and looked at the front and back: "I haven't seen a button of this color." After Bao Peizhu read it, she handed the button to Li Wenhua.

"Let me see." The old lady took the button from her daughter's hand, looked at it carefully, and then looked at her daughter and said, "Peizhu, you go to my house, there is a bundle of clothes at the bottom of the big closet, you bring the sleepy clothes." After too much time, you may forget that Guoquan has a tunic - a gray tunic, and the buttons are buttons of this color. ”

Ouyang Ping and Liu Dayu looked at each other.

"Well, I remember, Guoquan has a tunic suit, didn't my mother give it to relatives in the countryside?"

"It's the best piece of clothing for the country, and I can't bear to give it to my relatives."

Bao Peizhu glanced at her mother and walked into the room a little reluctantly.

After a while, Bao Peizhu walked out of the room, holding a gray-colored dress in her hand.

The old man took the clothes and spread them out on the large table.

Sure enough, it was a tunic with gray buttons on it, exactly the same as the buttons that the comrades found in the secret room.