"Not far? How? ”

"I think we need to go to the site and do a field trip."

The painter's face showed a hesitant expression, and he asked, "Will it be dangerous, what if the murderer who attacked me is still there?" ”

Huo Xiake shook his head and said: "Absolutely not, you think it's a detective novel, the murderer stupidly stayed at the scene, waiting to be caught by the police." ”

The painter sighed, "Well, I was persuaded by you. I'll take you there. ”

He stood up, left the villa at No. 221 Shell Garden with Huo Xiake, and went to the scene of the incident together. After walking for about twenty minutes, the painter came to a sparsely populated road, and the painter stopped abruptly, pointed to the bushes beside the road in front of him, and said, "That's where I woke up." ”

Huo Xiake walked over, jumped over, climbed over the bushes, and had a panoramic view of the scene. Behind the bushes she saw was a slope, untended and overgrown with weeds, very dense, with a depression formed by crushing.

The slope was a little slippery, and she cautiously walked over, crouched down and carefully surveyed it, and in a short time found a few hairs, which, judging by the color and length of the hair, had fallen from the painter's head, that is, this was the place where the painter fell to the ground and fell unconscious.

The painter came over, looked down from behind the bushes, and said, "I said it was useless to come here. ”

Huo Xiake looked around, shook his head with a smile and said, "No, no, I may have found a very valuable clue." ”

She first pointed to a row of footprints from the bushes to the place where the painter had fallen and said, "These are your footprints." ”

The painter was stunned for a moment, and nodded, he still remembered the path he had taken.

Huo Xiake pointed to another row of footprints that started from the place where the painter fell to the ground and walked along the slope and said, "This is another person's footprints." ”

The painter did not understand and said, "What does this have to do with me?" ”

"It matters."

After Huo Xiake finished speaking, she followed the footprints, and the painter followed on it without knowing why. Huo Xiake walked all the way to a trash can hidden behind the bushes, lifted the lid, and despite the dirt, bent down and reached in and began to churn. After a while, but seeing that she straightened up and held a wallet in her hand, she opened it and looked at it, threw it to the painter, and asked, "Is this your wallet?" ”

The painter caught it, looked at it and quickly opened it, it was empty, there was nothing, and said suspiciously: "It seems to be." ”

He looked up and asked curiously, "How do you know I have something here?" ”

Huo Xiake clapped his hands and said: "It's very simple, see that all your valuable things inside and outside have been looted, this method is very similar to what a thief did." When a thief steals his wallet, he or she will dispose of it immediately. Usually they will find a hidden place and take the useful things in the wallet and throw the useless ones away. Some thieves also have a way, only take money, and will deliberately throw their wallets in crowded places for the owner to pick up. When you were unconscious, someone took all your valuable things away, but you were unlucky enough to come across someone who didn't keep your hand, and even threw your wallet into the trash can, so that you don't give people a chance to get it back. Well, I'll look again, maybe there's some clues. ”

She flipped through it again and found a soggy business card, but unfortunately most of it was blurred, and she could barely make out a few words.

Huo Xiake glanced at it for a few moments, suddenly stared at the painter, and then said: "The words on this business card are all French words, and they may be your stuff if they are associated with your French background." ”

She looked at it again and said, "Well, it seems to have a name on it." Hua…… Jiao……”

He stared at the painter again and said, "Is this your name?" Pepper? ”

The painter frowned and said, "Normal people probably don't take spices as names." ”

Huo Xiake smiled: "I also think that's the case, and there are not many people with the surname Hua, so I think you should be Huajiao-Huamei." ”

The painter did not dwell on these topics and said, "Well, Chinese pepper is Chinese pepper, which is better than seasoning." ”

So, the painter had a name, called Huajiao.

Huo Xiake climbed from the slope to the road and said to Hua Jiao: "Judging from the footprints, you climbed to the bottom of the slope by yourself." ”

"Maybe I was coerced by someone else and had to go down, and then here he knocked me unconscious, snatched everything from me, and left me aside."

Huo Xiake shook his head and said, "No, it's not like this. When the grass stems are broken, they will gradually turn yellow under the sun. You see, where you've stepped on it, the grass has turned yellow. But in the other place where the footprints were treadd, the grass was still relatively fresh. In other words, it's an hour or two after you've been unconscious that the person comes over. ”

Hua Jiao's brows furrowed, he really couldn't figure out what he was crazy about, ran up the slope, he muttered to himself: "I'm Hua Jiao, could it be that I saw that the scenery here is better, ran down, and then I don't know what happened and was knocked unconscious?" ”

Huo Xiake looked around, what kind of scenery is this, dozens of meters away from the slope, there is a tall arbor forest, which just covers the huge billboard behind. Take a closer look, the advertisement on the billboard is still Shell Garden, which draws a top view of the villa in the second phase of Shell Garden, and each villa corresponds to the north and south, and is also marked with room numbers such as 201.

Huo Xiake smiled and said to Hua Jiao, "I seem to have solved the puzzle of Shell Garden No. 221. ”

Hua Jiao's eyes lit up and asked, "What do you say?" ”

"Let's go back to the Shell Garden and talk as we go."

Hua Jiao looked at Huo Xiake with hope, hoping that she could truly solve the puzzle.

Huo Xiake said: "Where to start? Well, let's start with you! I have analyzed before that you will write the address on the logo of your collar and hide gold in the heel of your shoes, which means that you are a person who is prepared for danger in times of peace, ready to flee anytime and anywhere, and the address on your collar trademark is one of the secret safe houses you have prepared. However, it is strange that a person who is prepared for danger in times of peace is usually very cautious, and since he is a cautious person, why would he rashly write the address of the secret safe house on the trademark of the collar? Because although this place is very close, it is not too secretive, and there is a certain chance that it will be seen by others. A secret that is seen by others is not a secret. So, if you're smart, you might as well do a little tricking around the address. One comes to confuse others, and comes to remind oneself. ”

Hua Jiao was stunned for a moment and asked, "No. 221 Shell Garden, what can I do in these words?" ”

Huo Xiake smiled: "At first, I couldn't guess what you did, until I saw the billboard in the Shell Garden just now, and then I suddenly realized." ”

Hua Jiao recalled the billboard he had seen just now, couldn't think of any clues, shook his head and said, "I don't understand, what inspiration did the billboard give you." ”

Huo Xiake said indifferently: "The billboard shows the second phase of Shell Garden, which is where the house I live in. A simple overhead view of the villa complex is drawn on it, and the room number of the villa is indicated. In my house, for example, the first 2 represents the second phase, and the second 21 represents the 21st. But do you imagine that number 21 is the 21st villa? ”

Hua Jiao was puzzled at first, but after thinking about it carefully, he gradually showed an expression of sudden realization.