Sense of smell

Chapter 19 Cold Arrow 2

"Dong dong dong..." The judge wearing a white wig sat on a high balance chair, holding a small hammer to maintain order in the courtroom.At this time, the plot has reached a fever pitch, and the insidious and cunning profiteer Shylock is holding on to the usury, showing all his grudges about Antonio in the past, and insisting on wanting a pound of his chest.

"I am a useless and sick sheep in the flock, and death is my due." Facing the crowd, Antonio said with emotion: "The weakest fruit falls to the ground first, so let me end like this." It's my whole life."

He turned his head, pulled a handsome young man and said: "Bassanio, my good brother, as long as you live, you will write an epitaph for me in the future."

Bassanio's hands trembled uncontrollably, shaking his head slightly, while Shylock beside him was sharpening his knife vigorously.

"Why are you sharpening your knife so hard?!" Bassanio raised his voice, terrified.

"Do you still need to ask?" Sherlock shook the knife in his hand and said disapprovingly, "Of course it's a pound of flesh from his chest!"

"Good performance." Standing at the entrance of the theater, Lin Chuan praised the performance on the stage.

Jiang Yue leaned against the door, extinguished the cigarette butt, put it in his pocket, and replied flatly, "Yes, it's okay."

"Okay, then we shall be punished according to the agreement; according to the law, the Jew has the right to ask for a pound of flesh from the businessman's chest." It was Portia's time to appear, and the tall girl in a lawyer's uniform stood on the stage. The performance on the screen is also very smooth and free.

Shylock sighed: "Ah! The judge of dignity! What an excellent young man!"

Portia smiled slightly, and saw Sherlock walking towards Antonio with a knife in his hand, Portia suddenly interrupted: "Sherlock, go and ask a surgeon to seal the wound for him, and you will bear the cost, lest he Bleed to death."

Sherlock was puzzled: "Is there such a stipulation in the contract?"

Portia picked up the culprit called the "contract", and said confidently: "No, but the contract does not allow you to take a drop of his blood, it only states a pound of flesh, so you can take it according to the contract." A pound of flesh, but if you shed a drop of Christian blood when cutting the flesh, according to the law of Venice, all your land and property will be confiscated!"

The girl's performance was very contagious, and everyone present was impressed by the character's wit and sophistry with her excellent acting skills.

Jiang Yue squinted his eyes slightly, looked around, and said, "This is the president of the drama club?"

It was easy for Lin Chuan to know who Jiang Yue was referring to, so he nodded and said, "That's right."

"What a learned and talented young man!" Sherlock gritted his teeth, "Give me back my capital."

Bassanio frowned, and raised his chin in dissatisfaction: "I've already prepared the money here, take it away quickly."

Portia suddenly stepped forward, stood in front of the purse and said, "He has already refused in court, and now we can only give him justice and let him fulfill the contract."

Sherlock: "Can't I just get back the capital?"

Portia laughed and said, "Jew, you can't get a penny except to cut off that pound of flesh at the risk of your own life!"

Sherlock's eyes slanted and mouth slanted, and he said angrily: "Okay, then the devil bless him to enjoy it! I won't fight this lawsuit!"

Portia continued: "Wait a minute, Jew, there is one more point in the law that involves you. The law of Venice stipulates that if a foreigner attempts to murder any citizen by direct or indirect means, if it is found that there is evidence, his property Half shall go to the injured party, and the other half shall go to the public treasury, and the life of the offender shall be at the disposal of the duke, and no one else shall interfere. You just happen to be caught in this law, because the development of facts is enough to prove that you really used direct Indirect means, attempts to endanger the life of the accused, so you are already in danger of the kind I have just mentioned. Get down on your knees, and beg the Duke to be merciful."

"Pfft." Lin Chuan suddenly laughed softly.

Jiang Yue glanced at him sideways: "What are you laughing at?"

"Everyone has their own desired ending, except that Sherlock who hurt others and hurts himself." Lin Chuan watched the performance going on on stage, and said softly: "When I was studying, I learned Shakespeare's Drama."

"Harm others and harm yourself." Jiang Yue repeated, looking at the actors in retro European costumes with unpredictable expressions.

At the last moment of the last scene of the play, Sherlock faced the audience, knelt down heavily, covered his chest with his hands, and recited the lines in pain: "No, take my life and property together, I don't want you Forgive me, if you take away the pillars that support the house, you are tearing down my house; if you take away the foundation of my family, you are killing me!"

At the end of the play, Lin Chuan applauded first, and Jiang Yue followed suit when they saw each other. The monotonous applause of the two was particularly prominent in the huge theater.

The actors on stage originally planned to take a break after the performance, but when they heard the applause, they all stopped and bowed deeply to them.Although it was just a rehearsal and there were only Lin Chuan and two in the audience, I have to say that this drama was very hardworking and the actors' acting skills were also very good.

The girl playing Portia jumped off the stage directly. She took off the lawyer's hat on her head, wiped the sweat from her forehead casually, and ran towards Lin Chuan and the others.

"Hello, two police officers! My name is Liang Yue, what can I do for you?" She asked with a bright smile.

"Hi, my name is Lin Chuan."

"Jiang Yue."

Lin Chuan and Jiang Yue shook hands with Liang Yue successively, and then Lin Chuan said again: "You should have heard about the recent drowning incident, right?"

Mentioning this matter, Liang Yue's expression was slightly startled, she nodded worriedly, and said, "I know, the three students who fell into the water are members of my club."

"How are they normal people?" Lin Chuan opened the notebook, bit off the cap, and took the pen to record.

"Their acting skills are very good. Originally, the other three leading actors in this show belonged to them, but something happened unexpectedly and they had to be replaced. That's why we were busy rehearsing."

Lin Chuan nodded, drew a few times on the notebook casually, and continued to ask: "Do they have any festivals with others?"

Liang Yue tilted her head and thought for a while, then replied: "Festival? I don't know, but some time ago, two juniors quit the club, and they seemed a little unhappy in the cafeteria with the juniors."

Lin Chuan narrowed his eyes slightly, and continued to ask: "What are the names of the two who quit the club, and which class are they in?"

Liang Yue took out her phone and flipped through it, then turned on the holographic projection, and a small translucent screen was displayed in front of the two of them.

"Tang Cheng and Tian Zhongyu are both from Class One (2) of Senior High." Liang Yue looked at the screen and said.

Tang Cheng...Lin Chuan looked at the resumes of the two, and smelled something different.

Office of the Fact Investigation Team.

"As I said, Tang Zheng's family members must offer condolences to Tang Zheng's death! If there is any situation, he can be sent to the treatment center in time!" Tang Zhengfeng yelled at his watch: "It's all right now, Tang Cheng, it's related to the case! Isn’t it the dereliction of duty of your psychological department?!”

Huang Mao raised his mobile phone, stared at the holographic screen playing competitive games, and glanced in Tang Zhengfeng's direction from time to time.

"Even if it's not necessarily a suspect, you should contact me immediately! If a case happens, it's yours and mine?"

"Heh, let me tell you, Zhou He, if Tang Cheng really can't get rid of the responsibility after the case is closed, wait for me to inform you in your psychology department!"

Tang Zhengfeng hung up the phone angrily, Yong Shu silently closed the report document sent by Lin Chuan, and said calmly, "Can getting angry solve the problem?"

Tang Zhengfeng glanced at him angrily, hurriedly put on his coat, and said to everyone, "Pack up your things and go meet them."

The artificial lake of Haicheng Middle School covers an area of ​​tens of acres, which is considered to be a relatively wide area. The quiet lake surface is sparkling under the sunshine, and there is a fence around the lake that only reaches the calf. There are cameras on the east and west sides of the lake. It is also close to the intersection, so the picture of three students falling into the water can be captured.

Lin Chuan and Wendy stood face to face under the monitoring, and said to Jiang Yue through the headset: "Can you see this?"

"Yes." Jiang Yue stood in the school's monitoring room, staring intently at the two people in the video: "Wendy, go back a little."

Wendy followed the instructions and walked back.

At that time, Jiang Yue watched the surveillance video of falling into the water. The three students fell into the water at the same place, but the posture of falling into the water was unnatural, with their backs facing the lake and their waists slightly bowed, which did not seem to fall into the water naturally at all.

If it didn't fall into the water naturally, then there must be something about monitoring.

"Okay, Wendy can't see it anymore." Jiang Yue's voice came from the headset, "Wendy, can I meet Officer Lin now?"

Wendy stretched out her hand upon hearing this, and her fingertips just touched Lin Chuan's shoulder.

"It just happened to touch, so I shouldn't be able to push it down." She replied.

Jiang Yue nodded in satisfaction, and said, "Okay, you two, come back first."

Lin Chuan walked back and asked in the headset: "Do you suspect that someone pushed them into the water?"

"Well, it should be a man."

Lin Chuan frowned, and said with some puzzlement: "Those three students won't drown, right?"

Jiang Yue laughed softly on the other end, and said: "Fresh water drowning is absorbed into the blood, making the blood thinner, increasing the blood volume, increasing the burden on the heart, and pulmonary edema will soon appear, leading to death from heart failure. And due to the density The reason is that after a person drowns, the cells die and swell, making the body less dense than water, and will float up." He paused, "This is common sense."

Lin Chuan could hear his sarcasm, and made an excuse unhappily: "I know this! I just forgot it for a while!"

Wendy covered her mouth and smiled secretly, and then heard Lin Chuan say: "Since he didn't die, why did he disappear for nothing?"

"This," Jiang Yue pondered for a moment, "Maybe the perpetrator found out with conscience?"

Lin Chuan quietly rolled his eyes.

It was approaching early morning, and the street lights by the lake had been extinguished for several hours.The nights in early winter were much colder than before. The cold wind mercilessly penetrated into the cuffs, and then pierced into the bones and blood, causing people to shiver from time to time.

A crow that hadn't slept at night fluttered its wings and landed on a rare protrusion on the lake. It screamed strangely and pecked at the footing. Suddenly a breeze blew by, and the crow flapped its wings and left quickly as if frightened.

The moonlight poured down, illuminating everything ambiguously.The wind blew the slight waves, shaking the blurred shadow under the moonlight slightly.

Only when I looked closely did I realize that the bulge was a human figure.

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The content summary is selected from "Atonement"

Excerpt from "The Merchant of Venice"

Another chapter with few words!Sorry guys I'm so lazy!I will take the blame now!