Chapter 50

  The neighbors on the left and right were discussing Xiao Pang's body all day long. First-hand news was passed from one mouth to another, and all the voices were talking about the same thing.

  "Hey, I heard Xiao Pang was pushed down."

  "Unbelievable! Isn't this murder? Who would bully a little kid?"

  "It's hard to guess what people are thinking! Anyway, Xiao Pang is holding the murderer's slippers!"

  "Really?!"

  "I'm not kidding! The police suspect that the slipper belonged to the murderer, otherwise why would Xiaopang be holding onto it with his last breath? I heard it was a woman's slipper."

  "Hey, isn't the culprit just a woman?"

  "You... what are you staring at me for? Although I often quarrel with Mrs. Zhang when playing mahjong, it's not to the point where I'd kill her son!"

  "Don't look at me like that! Anyway, it wasn't me who killed him!"

  For a time, the women in the entire building were on edge, afraid that they would be suspected by the police. No one could say for sure whose slippers Little Fatty was holding, after all most people had the bad habit of throwing trash directly into the stinky ditch, including old slippers and whatnot.

  For a time, this old building became cleaner than it had ever been before. The residents no longer dared to litter indiscriminately.

  However, the police's conclusion on this homicide case was not a murder case but an accident. This made the residents of the old building let out a long sigh of relief and after the gloom that had been hanging over their heads disappeared, everyone began to discuss it freely once again:

  "The police are really something! If there's no murderer, just say so earlier! You've made me worry for so long!"

  "What? Afraid of being mistaken for the murderer?! Haha!"

  "Pfft! You're the murderer! I'm worried about my kids, if there's really a cold-blooded killer living in this building who wouldn't even spare children, shouldn't I move out ASAP?!"

  "I thought it was the You family on the fifth floor who did it at first..."

  "Oh, what's going on?"

  "That day, Mrs. Zhang and that family weren't they quarreling to the point of no return? That night Xiao Pang died, I thought to myself, where in the world is there such a coincidence!"

  "Gee, you're absolutely right!"