Yue Xingwen, Ke Shaobin and Xu Yishen each took a car to the location of the beach barbecue restaurant sent by Qin Lu, while Zhuo Feng drove a bus to lead a group of students to the beach.
In the evening, the whole city was shrouded in golden sunset, all the way to the east. They could see the magnificent landscape of the sea and sky, along the coastal sightseeing avenue, planted with tropical palm trees, and many couples holding hands on the beach.
Yue Xingwen opened the window, the sea breeze blowing in the face, mixed with the humid smell of the sea. The temperature of this season was extremely pleasant, it was no wonder that so many students would go out in groups on weekends.
When he was at Hua’an University, each class and associations often organized such outings on weekends. This time more than 90 Law Department’s students went to the beach to barbecue, and the situation would definitely be extremely chaotic by then. With so many people, he wondered if anyone would be killed?
Yue Xingwen was frowning and thinking when a message suddenly popped up in his mobile phone, sent by Xing Yan to the WeChat group: “I saw the registration form for the weekend barbecue they organized in the Law Department’s student group. There were 22 students who did not participate in this event, and the list has been compiled. Most of them are internships in other places, and can’t make it back. There are 7 people staying at school, 2 boys and 5 girls.”
Yue Xingwen replied: “You continue to pay attention to the students who stay at school, I’m almost there.”
Ten minutes later, Yue Xingwen came to the beach barbecue restaurant. The first thing he saw was Qin Lu wearing a waitress’s clothes, and Zhang Xiaonian, who was wearing a white hat, playing a role as a side dish expert.
Yue Xingwen walked up to Qin Lu and asked in a low voice, “Haven’t the others arrived yet?”
Qin Lu nodded, “En, you are the first to arrive.”
Yue Xingwen said, “You guys get busy first, I will go to the beach for a walk, and call me in the group when they arrive.”
Although this beach was used for barbecue. The barbecue area and the beach play area were separated, the sand in the play area was white and clean, and many nearby residents were playing on the beach. The sunset fell to the sea, making the sea seemingly rendered golden.
Yue Xingwen came to the beach and looked into the distance.
There was a row of red floating balls more than a dozen meters away from the beach, which constantly rose and fell with the sea. The floating balls were connected by a fishnet-like line—— This should be a cordon to prevent people playing by the sea from swimming into the deep sea area.
In the offshore area within the cordon, the depth of the sea was about 1,5 meters, and adults could show their head when they stood up without drowning; In the deep sea area beyond the cordon, people who couldn’t swim were vulnerable to danger once they drowned.
It was also common to set up a cordon in the beach area where they could play freely by the sea.
Yue Xingwen couldn’t swim, and he never went into the water when he traveled to the beach, but at this time, there were many children playing in the offshore are with swimming rings, and there were grandparents with silk scarves posing for various pose to take photos.
The setting sun gradually fell, and the beach barbecue officially began.
Zhuo Feng sent a message to the group: “The bus has arrived, this group of students is really energetic, laughing and making trouble all the way, and singing in the bus. It was so noisy that I had a headache, and I could hardly drive.”
Yue Xingwen said: “We used to go out and play like this ah.”
Zhuo Feng was stunned, thinking about it carefully, their Student Council used to organize activities, which were even more lively than this! They are also students, so how come nowadays, when they look at their peers, they suddenly have an ‘elder mentality’ of ‘adults looking at children’?
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Maybe he had experienced too much in the library and his mentality was more mature!
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Yue Xingwen said, “It’s okay, arrange a 4-seater for us.”
Qin Lu took them to Area C to find a seat. Each seating area had a parasol, four people sat under the parasol, baking trays, iron nets, charcoal fires were all provided by the store. Yue Xingwen handed the menu and pencil to Ke Shaobin and said, “Ke Shaobin, you can order it, just tick whenever you want to eat.”
Ke Shaobin lowered his head and carefully selected dishes, meat sausages, chicken wings, beef, fish balls, potato chips, leeks…
While looking at the price, he ticked and ordered more than a dozen in a blink of an eye.
Moments later, the waiter came over with the dish and placed it next to their seats. Four of them observed the surroundings while grilling—— The students of the Law Department had all arrived, chattering very lively. They occupied the entire A and B area, each table sat 4 people. Most of them were sitting in the dormitory room, there were also mixed boys and girls sitting.
From time to time, there was laughter in the student group, and as senior brother Zhuo Feng said, this group of students was indeed energetic.
Yue Xingwen looked at them and couldn’t help but miss his college life. If they hadn’t been pulled in by the library, they could have organized barbecues, mountain climbing, and camping!
There was the aroma of barbecued meat around. Everyone started one after another, and Ke Shaobin personally grilled meat. This guy was not only very particular about eating, his cooking skills were actually good, the meat was tender, the taste was delicious. Yue Xingwen couldn’t help but eat a few more skewers.
As the sunset fell, the sky darkened, the barbecue stalls were lit up, and the tourists playing by the beach gradually dispersed. A passionate music sounded around, models were dancing, and bonfires were lit in between.
This was what Qin Lu said. In order to attract customers, the store would hold a bonfire party.
Yue Xingwen also joined the lively scene of the bonfire party, dancing with the surrounding college students. He actually couldn’t dance, but he could follow everyone in circles. Senior brother Xu Yishen twisted around, but he had a sense of rhythm.
There was a girl next to them and curiously asked, “You’re not from the Law Department, right?”
Yue Xingwen said, “En, the four of us, from the same dormitory of the Mathematics Department of Beishan University, came to have a barbecue on the weekend. I didn’t expect to meet you for a group activity.”
Beishan University was the name of the school where they were located this time, a key university in Beishan City.
The girl’s eyes lit up and said, “Schoolmates ah, what a coincidence!”
Yue Xingwen asked, “Which department are you, why are there so many people?”
The girl replied, “Law Department. Everyone is about to graduate next semester, and while there are still many students in school, we organized a group activity, which should be a carnival before graduation.”
The girl had short hair, wore a simple short-sleeved T-shirt with pencil pants, natural and graceful. She could also chat with a stranger, Yue Xingwen asked, “Are you from the Student Council?”
The girl nodded, “En, this barbecue event was organized by the Student Council.”
Yue Xingwen said seriously, “Can senior sister leave contact information? I want to consult you on some legal issues.”
The girl was stunned for a moment, took out her mobile phone with a smile, exchanged contact information with Yue Xingwen, and stretched out her hand, “Hello, my name is Qi Xinyu, how about you?”
Yue Xingwen smiled and said, “My name is Jiang Pingce.”
Several teammates almost spewed out when they heard this, and they couldn’t help it.
However, Jiang Pingce was indeed a student of the Mathematics Department of Beishan University now, and Yue Xingwen said his name. Even if the girl went back to the school to inquire, she could find out the existence of this person, and there would be no suspicion.
The bonfire party continued, and the girl was pulled by her friend to play on the other side.
The sky was completely dark, and the students were playing quite high. It wasn’t until about 00:00 am, that they stopped and set up their tents to get ready to sleep. Yue Xingwen and the others also rented two double tents. Xingwen and Ke Shaobin lived in one, Xu Yishen and Zhuo Feng lived in the other one. The four worked together to set up the tent and got into the tent.
Ke Shaobin couldn’t sleep and opened his laptop to read the information.
Yue Xingwen asked, “Did you find any problems?”
Ke Shaobin said, “I’m idle and bored. I have circled the top students who won the scholarships every year, the underachievers who hang up every year, and the students who have poor conditions at home and apply for student loans.”
Yue Xingwen smiled, looking at the laptop and saying, “I also familiarize myself with the names of these students in advance.”
At this moment, the mobile phone screen lit up. When he opened it, he saw that it was a message from Jiang Pingce: “How are you doing over there?”
Yue Xingwen said: “Nothing happened before it was dark, the students were holding a bonfire party, singing, dancing and having fun. Then they set up a tent to prepare to sleep. I feel that the murderer should act late at night?”
Jiang Pingce said: “Nothing happened on the school side.”
Yue Xingwen thought for a while and said: “Let’s rest first. The library can’t let us directly bump into the murderer, try to listen to the surrounding movements, and talk about it tomorrow.”
Jiang Pingce replied: “En, it will be uncomfortable to sleep in the beach tent. If the ground is too hard, you can put half of the quilt under your body and cover the other half.”
Yue Xingwen replied with a smile emoticon: “I know, good night.”
Ke Shaobin closed the laptop and also began to sleep. The two turned off the flashlight, Yue Xingwen laid down and carefully listened to the movements outside. There were some students around who suppressed their voices and spoke. By 1 am, there were no voices outside, only the sound of ‘rushing’ waves, and Yue Xingwen fell asleep in a daze.
He was awakened by screams.
The piercing scream made Yue Xingwen sit up suddenly, rushed out of the tent and looked, only to see two girls standing by the sea. One of them was Qi Xinyu who exchanged contact information with him last night, and the other had long hair and a pale face.
There was a corpse floating on the sea not far away.
It was a girl in a colorful dress, her hair covering her face, and her body was already a little puffy because she had been soaking in water all night. Yue Xingwen’s face changed, and he immediately took out his mobile phone and said, “Call the police!”
Almost at the same time, there was an ear-piercing scream from the school’s girls’ dormitory!
On weekends, many girls would sleep in, but they were all woken up by this scream. Qin Miao ran all the way in pajamas, came to the 7th floor, found that many girls opened the door curiously and looked curiously. Qin Miao ran in the direction of the sound, the door of the dormitory 703 was wide open, a girl stood at the door dumbfounded, and it should be her who screamed.
Inside the room, a girl in pajamas laid in a pool of blood, and another girl knelt next to her, holding a sharp fruit knife in her hand, and the knife was inserted to the girl’s chest.
Qin Miao: “……”
The screaming girl yelled, “Murder! Ahhhh! Zhu Xiaoting killed someone!”
This scream attracted a large number of students to watch, and the dormitory aunt was also alarmed, and quickly climbed upstairs while calling the police.
Zhu Xiaoting, a girl who remained in the dormitory, was full of horror and shook her head frantically, “It’s not me, it’s not me… I didn’t kill anyone! She was already dead when I came!”
The screaming girl pointed at her emotionally and said, “You, you are holding a knife in your hand!”
Zhu Xiaoting was startled, and immediately let go of her hand, and the fruit knife fell to the ground with a clang.
Qin Miao quickly took a few on-site photos and sent them to the group: “Girls’ dormitory 703, the deceased Xie Xiangqin, has a knife inserted in her chest, which looks fatal. Zhu Xiaoting was at the scene, holding the knife that stabbed the person to death. The witness and screaming girl was Mao Yue, the deceased’s roommate.”
Qin Miao had seen the information of the Law Department’s students given by Xin Yan before, so after seeing the accident in dormitory 703, she quickly reported the names of the three people at the scene according to the memories in her mind and compared their faces.
Yue Xingwen looked at the photos in the group and secretly screamed in his heart that it was bad.
Could it be that Zhu Xiaoting was their client?!
The next moment, a message popped up in the hoverbox in the upper right corner of everyone: “The police are about to arrest the most suspected student Zhu Xiaoting, please prepare to defend the party.”
Lan Yarong: “……”
Holding a murder weapon in hand, being found at the scene of the murder was simply indisputable!
Why did this girl touch the murder weapon!
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Just like in the movies…🤣 People shouldn’t touch things in the crime scene.