Yeast powder?

Li Xiang was stunned, his originally excited mood stagnated.

What are you doing looking for this thing?

Is it related to the case? Or did the murderer miss it?

Xu Hao saw his doubts, but he was too lazy to explain now. He interrupted Li Xiang who wanted to ask questions and said:

"I'll tell you why later!"

"Now, let's first visit the scene of the first crime, which is the bakery where we are!"

"Collect all the yeast powder!"

With that said, Xu Hao walked towards the door of the bakery. He looked back at Li Xiang who was stunned.

"Captain Li, if you don't want the case to escalate, you'd better do as I say."

After saying this, Xu Hao showed a gentle smile, turned around and left.

"Wait for me for half an hour and I'll be right back!"

Li Xiang suddenly trembled. His expression was serious and he began to mobilize the surrounding police officers.

"Xiao Liu, Tao Zi, Ma Shun, search the kitchen again!"

When their names were called, several police officers were stunned and asked in confusion:

"Boss, what are you searching for? The kitchen has been searched according to your instructions."

"Don't ask why, search again, just for yeast powder. Collect all the yeast powder in the bakery and put it here with me!"

"Oh oh..."

The police officers became busy, and Li Xiang was not idle either, running back and forth between the storefront and the kitchen.

While commanding and protecting the scene, he was angrily shouting at reporters outside the door, and at the same time he was searching for any missing yeast powder.

It was okay at first, but as time went by...

Li Xiang's face became increasingly ugly.

Before half an hour was up, it only took twenty-eight minutes for Xu Hao's panting figure to appear again at the scene of the first crime.

He held two black and white documents in his hand.

"I'm back." Li Xiang looked very ugly.

Xu Hao nodded, then glanced at the empty table around him.

"Where's the yeast powder?"

Li Xiang's face turned red when he heard the question, "There is no yeast powder!"

"There is no yeast powder in this bakery. Liuzi and I almost dug up the floor of the bakery, but we couldn't find any yeast powder!"

Hearing this, Xu Hao nodded to indicate that he knew. When Li Xiang saw this, his brows instantly furrowed.

"Looking at you like this...did you expect it in advance!?"

Li Xiang's eyes widened and he looked at Xu Hao doubtfully.

"It was probably taken away by the murderer."

Xu Hao smiled, he had expected it, or what he wanted was that there was no yeast powder in the bakery!

"The murderer took it away!? What does he want with this thing!?" Li Xiang was stunned.

He thought about it for a long time but still couldn't figure out what kind of murderer could be free to get yeast powder.

Xu Hao: "Team Li, let's see how much flour is left in the kitchen first?"

Flour?

Li Xiang frowned, wondering why flour was involved again.

However, based on basic trust, he still took a group of people to find a place dedicated to storing flour.

The flour was concentrated in the warehouse. Xu Hao counted three bags.

"Boy, why are you talking so madly again!?"

Li Xiang cursed and said, "What are your guesses? Isn't it uncomfortable to hold it in alone!?"

Xu Hao ignored him. He picked up a bag of flour and thought for a moment.

After a moment, he spoke, his lips opening and closing.

"Team Li, there are three bags of flour here, each bag is about fifty kilograms. One of the bags is unsealed, so it is only one hundred and twenty-five kilograms."

"The mixing ratio of yeast powder and flour is generally 1:100. The bakery master will know it very well. It will not be too much or too little."

"I rummaged through the trash can and found the 50-gram package of yeast powder I bought at the bakery."

"In order to facilitate purchasing, stores usually purchase the same proportion of flour and yeast powder at one time!"

"In other words, the murderer took away at least thirteen packets of yeast powder!"

Thirteen packets of yeast powder are enough for a family to use for two or three years.

What does the murderer want with this!?

Li Xiang frowned. Before he could ask a question, Xu Hao spoke first.

"Captain Li, guess what the murderer did with so much yeast powder?"

Li Xiang frowned, "I don't know what to do. Please tell me first, why are you looking for yeast powder!?"

"And how did you think of flour!?"

Xu Hao paused, and the words he had just thought of were instantly shattered.

He smiled, took a deep breath, and then Chen Sheng said:

"Team Li, all three crime scenes have been cleaned. Among them, the two items, the water ladle and the rolling pin, were the most carefully cleaned. The rolling pin even became thinner because of it!"

"So, the question is, what did the murderer do with these things?"

What did you do? Li Xiang frowned.

What can a water ladle do? Hold water. What about a rolling pin? Roll out dough.

Li Xiang frowned and thought deeply, his intuition telling him that this problem was not simple.

Xu Hao intimately reminded, "Captain Li, you have a faucet at home. If you have a faucet, what are the water ladles at home used for?"

Li Xiang was stunned, recalling his own experience of using a water ladle, and said uncertainly:

"Digging for flour?"

Water ladles were used in ancient times to hold water stored in water tanks due to inconvenient circumstances.

Now in 2002, there is a faucet, so there is no need for a ladle, but every household has one, usually used to dig flour.

It is commonly used in bakeries.

"Yes, just digging for flour!"

"Then what did the murderer do digging for flour? This doesn't constitute a logical chain!"

Li Xiang's balls ached, and he found that he couldn't understand what Xu Hao said.

"Don't worry, I'll tell you slowly!"

Xu Hao comforted the irritable old man and said slowly:

"After talking about the water ladle, next comes the rolling pin. Based on the flour in front, the rolling pin is naturally used to roll the dough, and the yeast powder taken away is for fermenting the flour!"

Yeast powder is available in every household, but due to the amount used, the packaging is very small, and sometimes the owner cannot find it by himself.

Xu Hao guessed that the murderer acted to prevent the follow-up and could not find the yeast powder after killing the people.

"So, we made a bold guess based on the clues just now, and finally came to a conclusion."

"At the scene of the crime, the murderer performed a series of actions such as kneading, fermentation, and final cooking in the kitchen!"

The murderer was interviewed at the scene?

Is this a psychosis!?

Intuition told Li Xiang that this was a bit unreliable, but his body was honest and listened silently.

After saying this, Xu Hao paused and started a new topic.

"Put aside the noodles for now, Captain Li, let's think about one more thing!"

"What's the matter?" Li Xiang scratched his head and asked.

"The murderer's target!"

Xu Hao affirmed, "We previously suspected that the murderer's target was the victim's heart, but from the discovery of the heart in the trash can, it is obvious that our guess was wrong."

"The murderer's target is the heart, but not just the heart!"
To be continued...