Chapter 16 I Didn't Think You Were So Mean

透过洞开的窗户可以看到小区一角，还有远处的街道。街道上车来车往，陌生的人来来去去。人们建造了都市，却又在都市之中迷失。

The windows had a view of a corner of the neighbourhood and some streets in the distance. The streets were busy with vehicles and people zipping along them. Men had built the city but become lost in their creation.

“雷子，你发现了什么？”江如意有些沉不住气了。

“Lei, have you discovered something?” Jiang Ru-Yi was losing a little steam.

夏雷摇了摇头，“没有，不过我总觉得有地方不对劲。”

Xia Lei shook his head. “No, but I still feel like something’s off.”

“什么地方不对劲？”

“What’s off?”

夏雷说道：“这里太干净了，地板的缝隙里连多余的灰尘都没有，好像是用吸尘器吸过一样。”

“This place is too clean. There isn’t any extra dust in the floorboard gaps; it’s as if the floor had been vacuumed,” said Xia Lei.

“张教授家的女佣不是说没打扫吗？”

“Didn’t Professor Zhang’s maid say she hadn’t cleaned yet?”

夏雷说道：“张教授家的女佣没打扫，但凶手就不能打扫吗？他担心留下什么痕迹，杀了张教授之后将他活动过的地方都打扫一遍，你们警方的技术组找不到他留下的半点痕迹就很正常了。”

“She didn’t but who’s to say the murderer didn’t either? The murderer could have been worried about leaving evidence behind and cleaned up the areas he’d been in after killing Professor Zhang. That may explain why your technicians didn’t find anything with their equipment,” said Xia Lei.

“还真有这种可能，但是……”江如意用异样的眼神瞧着夏雷，“地板的缝隙那么小，你能看到里面的灰尘有多少吗？”

“There is this possibility, but…” Jiang Ru-Yi looked at Xia Lei strangely. “The gaps between the floorboards were so small - can you really see how much dust was in there?”

夏雷避开了她的疑问，他说道：“吸尘器放在什么地方？带我去看看吧。”

Xia Lei avoided her question and said, “Where’s the vacuum cleaner? Take me there.”

“在杂物间，我带你去。”江如意并没有追问夏雷究竟是怎么看清楚地板缝隙里面的情况的，她带着夏雷来到了别墅里的一个储放室里。

“It’s in the utility room. I’ll take you there.” Jiang Ru-Yi did not press the issue of how Xia Lei was able to see the dust and brought him to a storeroom in the villa.

储放室里放着打扫卫生的器具，拖布、吸尘器和水桶等，还有一些别的杂物，但都收拾得整整齐齐的。

The storeroom had cleaning supplies, a mop, a vacuum cleaner, pails(桶) and the like, as well as some bits and bobs(零碎的东西), all neatly placed.

“你们警方的技术组检查过这里吗？”夏雷问。

“Did your police technicians check this place?” asked Xia Lei.

江如意想了一下，“有个同事来看过，不过只是简单地看了一下，没有仔细检查。”

Jiang Ru-Yi thought for a bit, “A colleague came to take a look but not very thoroughly.”

夏雷走到了拖布前，左眼微微地跳了一下。拖布的木质把手在他的左眼里突然被放大，木料表面的一切都清晰无遗地呈现在了他的视线之中。他没有使用放大镜，但看得却比放大镜还要清楚。

Xia Lei walked to the mop and his eye twitched. The wooden handle of the mop was suddenly enlarged and every detail, every grain of wood was crystal clear to Xia Lei. He did not have a magnifying glass but his eye more than made up for that.

拖布的把手非常干净，没有留下任何指纹，甚至连一点水渍都没有。

The mop handle was very clean - so clean it had no fingerprints or watermarks.

夏雷的心里更加确定了他的猜测，那就是凶手肯定打扫过现场，而他在打扫之后甚至将打扫现场的清洁用具都一一擦拭过。只有这一种解释，因为如果是张教授家的女佣打扫了卫生，那么她想做的事情肯定是休息，而不是擦拭拖布的把手。

Xia Lei grew more convinced of his suspicion that the murderer had cleaned up the crime scene and wiped every single one of the cleaning supplies used for the coverup. This was the only explanation, because if it were Professor Zhang’s maid, she would have wanted to rest after cleaning, not wipe the mop handle.

“雷子，你今天好奇怪，刚才趴在地上看地缝，这会儿又看拖布，你这是在帮我破案吗？”江如意的好奇心更重了。

“Lei, you’re acting weirdly today. You lay flat on the floor earlier and now you’re observing a mop here… Are you really helping me crack the case?” Jiang Ru-Yi’s curiosity grew.

“别说话。”夏雷向吸尘器走了过去。

“Shush.” Xia Lei went to the vacuum cleaner.

江如意不满地翘了一下小嘴，“你看上去好像侦探，不过你从来没干过这个吧？你行不行啊？要是没什么发现的话我们去外面逛逛吧，如果运气好的话还能碰到那两个疑犯。喂，我跟你说话呢，你听见没有？”

Jiang Ru-Yi made a moue(撅嘴) of dissatisfaction. “You look like you’re investigating it but you’ve never done this before, right? Can you really do it? If you didn’t find anything, let’s just go out for a walk. We may get lucky and run into those two suspects. Hey! I’m talking to you… Do you hear me?”

她肯定是不会闭嘴的，不过夏雷却闭上了嘴巴，就在江如意唠叨的时候他已经检查完了吸尘器的把手。结果是一样的，吸尘器的把手也被擦拭过，干净得仿佛刚出厂一样。他的视线忽然落到了吸尘器的储尘筒里，储尘筒的黑色塑料顿时消失在了他的视线之中，里面装着的东西也进入了他的视线之中。

She wouldn’t shut up but Xia Lei held his tongue. He finished inspecting the vacuum cleaner handle while Jiang Ru-Yi was still nagging(纠缠不休，唠叨) him and the result was the same - it had been wiped as clean as the day it was shipped from the factory. His gaze alighted on the internal vacuum storage and the black plastic disappeared under his gaze. The contents of the vacuum cleaner were laid bare to his eyes.

储尘筒并没有清理，里面还装着一些杂物，灰尘和地毯的纤维等等。一小块指甲和一根嵌在指甲裂缝之中的头发丝忽然进入到了夏雷的视线里，不仅如此，他还看到了指甲上所残留的一丝暗红色的血迹！

The vacuum cleaner had not been emptied out and still had garbage in it like dust and carpet fibers. A small piece of fingernail with a hair embedded in it suddenly entered Xia Lei’s sight. Not just that - he could even see a trace of dried blood on the fingernail!

夏雷的心中顿时一片激动，他的心里也假想出了凶案发生的过程。

The murderer was sly(狡猾，诡秘) and meticulous(一丝不苟，小心翼翼) but he had still left evidence!

Who else but Xia Lei, with the power of X-ray vision, could have found evidence like this?

夏雷的嘴角不禁露出了一丝笑容，他虽然不是侦探，更没有半点侦探的经验，但凭借左眼的超凡的能力，他便是一个天生的神探！

Xia Lei could not stop a smile from forming on his lips. He was not a detective and had no experience investigating but he was a natural-born Sherlock with the power of his left eye!

“喂？你在笑什么呢？”江如意又沉不住气了，她凑到了夏雷的身边，顺着夏雷的目光也看到了那只黑色的储尘筒，可她看到的只是一只光溜溜的储尘筒而已，根本就看不见里面装着什么东西，更别说是那一小片指甲的碎片了。

“What are you smiling about?” asked Jiang Ru-Yi curiously.

“别着急，我说过帮你破案就一定帮你破案。”夏雷说着蹲了下去将吸尘器的储尘筒取了下来，然后往外走。

Xia Lei said nothing. He removed the dust collector from the vacuum cleaner and walked out of the utility room.

“你干什么？”江如意追着夏雷出了储放室。

“What are you doing?” Jiang Ru-Yi followed him out.

夏雷返回客厅，他找来一张报纸，然后打开储尘筒将里面的垃圾倒在了报纸上。随后，他小心翼翼地刨开灰尘和地毯纤维，将藏在里面的那一小块指甲的碎片露了出来。

Xia Lei went back to the living room, found a newspaper and dumped the garbage out onto it. He then carefully swept away the dust and carpet fibers, revealing the small piece of fingernail.

“你倒是说话呀？”江如意并没有发现那一小块指甲，她也看不懂夏雷在干什么。

“Say something!” Jiang Ru-Yi had not yet discovered the fingernail and couldn’t understand what Xia Lei was doing.

夏雷用一张纸巾小心翼翼地将那一小块指甲拾了起来，然后递到了江如意的眼前，笑着说道：“看见了吗？这就是那个凶手留下的证据。”

Xia Lei used a piece of tissue paper, wrapped the fingernail piece delicately and handed it to Jiang Ru-Yi, smiling as he said, “See this? This is the evidence left by the murderer.”

“这……”江如意目瞪口呆地看着纸巾中的指甲。

“This… You?” Jiang Ru-Yi goggled at the fingernail nestled in tissue paper.

夏雷接着说道：“这块指甲上的血迹应该是那个凶手的，还有一根凶手的头发，凭借着两样东西你就可以查到凶手的dna，然后从你们警方的数据库里找到凶手的真实身份。有这样一份证据，你就可以向上面打一份详细的报告了。你手里人证物证都有了，这个案子你破定了。”

“The trace of blood on this fingernail should be from the murderer. There’s a strand of hair there too. You can get the DNA of the murderer from these two things and look for a positive match in your police database to get the murderer’s identity. With evidence like this, you can write a detailed report to the higher-ups. You’ve got both suspects and physical evidence now so the case is cracked for sure,” said Xia Lei.

江如意这才回过神来，兴奋之下她突然一下子抱住夏雷，叭一声在他的脸蛋上亲了一下，“我就知道，我就知道……哈哈，雷子，你真的是我的福星！”

Jiang Ru-Yi blanked out for a bit, then suddenly hugged Xia Lei and landed a kiss on his cheek with a loud smack. “I knew it, I knew it… Haha, Lei, you are my lucky star!”

温暖而柔软的挤压，还有蜻蜓点水一般的香吻，夏雷仿佛被点了穴道，僵住了，整个人也都不好了。

Warm yet soft pressure and a hint of sweet perfume assaulted Xia Lei’s senses. He froze like some kung fu master had hit his vital points. It was bad. Jiang Ru-Yi’s sexiness, coupled with her closeness… He was a man who’d never touched a woman but even those with experience would have a reaction. In two seconds, a certain part of him was standing proudly and obviously.

似乎是察觉到夏雷的身上有什么地方不对劲了，江如意忽然又松开了夏雷，粉脸生晕，尴尬地道：“不好意思，我太激动了。”她跟着转移夏雷的注意力，“告诉我，你是怎么想到要检查吸尘器的储尘筒的呢？你又是怎么发现这么重要的证据的呢？”

Jiang Ru-Yi, who was half-wrapped around Xia Lei, suddenly felt something strange prodding her below, and it was pressing into her very sensitive part, too. She looked down and quickly pushed Xia Lei away. Her pale face was flushed with red. “You, you.. What are you thinking?”

Xia Lei turned away, embarrassed. “No-nothing,” he said.

“You think I’m blind? You ass! You must be thinking something perverted! Gross!” Jiang Ru-Yi scoffed and her face grew even redder.

夏雷说道：“过去的事情就别提了，做你应该做的事情吧。”

Xia Lei hurriedly tried to divert her attention. “Uh. You’d better do what you should be doing.”

江如意掏出了手机，“我这就让技术组的人过来，有了这么重要的证据，要查到疑犯的真实身份就容易了。”

Jiang Ru-Yi took out her phone. “I’ll call the technicians. It should be easy to find the identity of the murder with this important piece of evidence.”

夏雷却按住了她的手，“你笨啊，你打电话回去，黄长海又会从中作梗，他随便使个坏就能让技术组放慢节奏。一个星期之后你被免职了，他再用我们找到的证据破案，立马就是大功一件。”

Xia Lei suddenly turned back and grabbed her hand, “No, dumbass! If you call them, Huang Chang-Hai will try to hinder you. He can easily tell the technicians to take their time analysing and you’ll be axed after a week. He can then use the evidence we found to crack the case and take credit.”

江如意皱起了眉头，“那怎么办？”

Jiang Ru-Yi frowned. “What do I do then?”

夏雷说道：“给提升你的领导打电话啊，让他派人过来。你也可以向他诉苦，打那个黄长海的小报告。那个黄长海处处跟你作对，你不想报复他一下吗？这正是一个机会。”

“Call your boss and ask him to send someone over. You can also complain about what that Huang Chang-Hai was doing. Don’t you want some revenge on him for going against you all the time? This is your chance,” said Xia Lei.

“咯咯，雷子，真没看出来你是这么坏一个人。我这就给许厅长打电话。”江如意笑了，重新拨了一个号码。

“Heh heh, Lei, I didn’t think you were so mean. I’ll call Director Xu right now.” Jiang Ru-Yi grinned and started to dial another number.

Xia Lei looked at Jiang Ru-Yi on the phone and his left eye twitched on its own. Her clothing faded away and a flowery, snowy landscape met his sight. Her breasts were full yet perky and her measurements were astounding. She was radiating sexiness. Her waist was slender-soft, tummy flat but smooth, with a hint of baby fat. Her lovely legs were long and slender but not lacking in fullness, shaped lovingly like jade. Legs like hers could be played with for a whole year without getting tired of them. Plus, the mysterious electric quality of her perky buttocks and...

Xia Lei’s mouth was as dry as sandpaper in under a minute. A raging fire had been lit in his lower body and his entire body was in yearning agony. If he kept looking he would lose all rationality and do something bad. He pinched his thighs hard in an effort to dispel his burning desire but the effect was minimal.

“I’ll take a look around in the study.” Xia Lei did not dare look at Jiang Ru-Yi again and didn’t want to hang around so he made his way to the study beside the living room.

书房里有一张金丝楠木打造的古式书桌，还有两只大书柜，也是金丝楠木打造的。这种木料看上去金光灿烂，光影流转，一看便知道是价值不菲的藏品级家具。

The study had an ancient-styled desk made of gold-brushed Chinese cedarwood, and two big bookcases of the same material. The wood was glossy with gold and reflected the light smoothly. You could tell that it was a considerably expensive piece of collectors’ furniture at first glance.

“这书桌与书柜恐怕得好几十万吧？这张教授真有钱。”夏雷的心里这样想着，然后走到了书架前。

“These desk and bookcases must have cost hundreds of thousands. This Professor Zhang was very wealthy” thought Xia Lei. He walked to the bookcases.

书柜上放着很多书，有考古的专业书籍，也有文学名著，还有一些杂记什么的，种类很多。

There were many books on the shelves. Books specialising in archaeology, well-known classic literature, scientific journals and many other genres.

“张教授因为一把钥匙而丧命，这把钥匙得有多大的价值才值得那两个疑犯杀人呢？如意给我看的资料说那把钥匙有可能是开启什么库门的，钥匙上的纹路也可能是地图的一部分……这么复杂的事情，张教授不可能只留下那一点研究资料吧？”夏雷的心思很快就转移到了案子上。

Xia Lei’s thoughts turned quickly to the case “Professor Zhang died because of a key. How valuable must it be for those two suspects to kill someone for it? The research Ru-Yi let me read said it was possibly used to open a library or warehouse, and the patterns were likely part of a map… Professor Zhang would surely have more information and research on such a complicated thing, wouldn’t he?”

其实，找到凶手留下的证据，他这边就可以完事了。不过，他对那把铸铁钥匙却产生了很大的兴趣。他也忍不住去回想焊接那把钥匙的情景，还有那个西装男和性感女郎的面孔。站在张教授的书房里，他有一种很奇怪的感觉，那就是张教授有可能还藏着什么东西，而那个东西并没有被警方和杀害他的人找到。

His job was actually done after finding the evidence left by the murderer. However, he had started to gain an interest in the key. He could not help recalling the time when he welded the key and the faces of the suited man and sexy lady. Standing in Professor Zhang’s study, Xia Lei had a strange feeling that Professor Zhang was hiding something - something which neither the police nor the murderer found.

“Since I promised Ru-Yi I would help, I may as well help her to the end. I found the leads so she can catch the culprit(罪犯). I did see her everything after all, so this can be considered a viewing fee.” Xia Lei laughed at himself, then his eye jumped and everything in the study turned translucent...