Chen Shi said: "I heard that some people go to the scene to pay homage to Yan Qilin every year. When he chatted with Zhang Jinlei alone, he said that he had been drunk in the bar last night. I wonder if it wasn't him, would it be you?"
"Yes... it's me."
"Do you go every year?"
"Yes! Since her death, her QQ has become a tree hole. Many classmates who miss her will leave her a message. One time I left a message to her QQ. I didn't expect her to reply. It turned out to be Zhang Jinlei. After talking about her QQ, we were very sad when we talked about this. I suggested that I should pay homage to her. Zhang Jinlei was afraid that he would be sad when he revisited the old place, so I refused. On the Qixi Festival, I will go alone. Burn some paper for her."
"Let me ask another question, what is the relationship between Yue Chao and her?"
"Yue Chao?" Xiao Ran recalled, "I don't know very well..."
"Is there anything wrong? We are just investigating, not judging the behavior of the parties."
"Uh..." Xiao Ran lowered his head and said for a while, "I think Yue Chao and her walk a little too close. I often see Yue Chao take her home. At that time, Yue Chao had already dropped out of school. Leaning on a motorcycle and waiting for her at the school gate. I asked her if she liked Yue Chao, but she kept denying it, saying that she liked someone else. There is no impermeable wall in the world. In Zhang Jinlei’s view, Yue Chao They were'harassing' her. The two had some conflicts about this, and then they didn't reappear until the college entrance examination Yue Chao. But after the college entrance examination, I saw Yue Chao with her again..."
"Didn't you just say that you haven't seen each other during the summer vacation?"
"That was a chance encounter, I didn't come forward to speak."
"What are she and Yue Chao doing?"
"They... They..." Xiao Ran's expression changed, "I'm sorry, I think this has nothing to do with the case."
"It is up to us to judge whether there is a relationship."
"I don't want to say, you can ask Yue Chao."
"Could it be that there is some negative information about your friends."
After a long silence, Xiao Ran said, "On July 24, 2013, there was a case on Guqiao Road. You can investigate it first, and I will tell you after the investigation."
"Wait a minute."
Lin Dongxue immediately sent a text message to the bureau. Five minutes later, the message replied. She handed it to Chen Shi. Chen Shi read the words above: "Organize high school students to sell Y?"
"It's really efficient!" Xiao Ran praised, "There is a place on that street where some high school girls and women dressed as high school girls will do a dirty business there. I was shopping with my cousin that day and saw a few police cars driving. When she came, she stepped forward to join in the fun. She didn’t expect to see the police arrest Yan Qilin. She kept crying. Just when she was about to be taken into a police car, a motorcycle drove over, and the rider jumped down to push the police down and force her. Yan Qilin took it away. Although he was wearing a helmet, I still recognized that it was Yue Chao! I was stunned after witnessing this incident. I don’t know how she could do this. Her family situation is not good, but she has always been I am very clean and self-conscious. Is it because I want to collect the university tuition? I don't dare to think deeply, and how can Yue Chao appear in such a timely manner. After he quit school, he has been messing around in society. Will he also have a part in this matter? "
"You chose to keep it secret?"
"Who else can I tell, call the police? Tell Zhang Jinlei? I want to question her too, but I hung up before the phone got through. I think she wouldn't be able to take this step if she doesn't have any great difficulties, honestly. Said I was still shocked that my best friend would actually do this kind of activity!"
Chen Shi and Lin Dongxue fell silent for a while, Xiao Ran lowered their heads and stirred the ice cubes in the cup with a straw, and Chen Shi broke the silence, "This incident did not appear in the previous statement. It seems that you and her are indeed very good. Friends, otherwise you won’t keep it secret forever."
Xiao Ran seemed to have gained a great understanding, "Yes, after the incident, the police came to me, just like facing the suspect. I know what they think. Will I try to grab Jin Lei? The bad guys, the police always like to think of people as the worst. I can only pretend not to know and answer every question they have truthfully."
After thanking her, the two said goodbye to her. Lin Dongxue said, "Do you think there is any doubt?"
Chen Shi smiled bitterly, "A little bit big, everyone's words are reasonable, and there are no flaws."
"Then, should we look farther away and stop confining ourselves to the deceased's network of relationships?"
"I want to go see it live."
"Didn't you just come back from there?"
"I mean, the scene of the first case."
Lin Dongxue brought Chen Shi there. She walked to a spot in the community and said, "This is the place where Yan Qilin was murdered.
Chen Shi saw a pile of paper ash on the ground, and Lin Dongxue said, "This is the paper burned by the people who came to pay memorial services last night."
"Look at the monitoring!"
The surveillance from the property showed that someone did walk in with a bag at around 8 o'clock last night. The clothes that TA wore were neutral, and there were no men and women. If Xiao Ran hadn't admitted personally, she would have never thought it would be her.
Then the surveillance also photographed Yue Chao and his girlfriend. The two were walking around the community. They were discovered by the patrolling police and taken away.
Around eleven, the worshippers left.
Lin Dongxue asked: "Should I go to the bar to verify it?"
Chen Shi nodded, "Of course!"
The bar owner didn't have any impression of Zhang Jinlei, probably because he was here for the first time, and there were more people in the bar last night.
When Chen Shi took out Zhang Jinlei's photo, a bartender remembered and said, "He was here last night."
"What did you order?"
"Who remembers!"
"Here is using WeChat to check out, can you give me a copy of last night's bill?"
I got the WeChat bill from the bartender and went outside. Chen Shi looked around, pointed to the traffic probe above and said, "I want this monitoring. It's a bit clearer to verify it."
Lin Dongxue smiled bitterly, "Good boss."
After running for a day, both of them felt exhausted. Chen Shi drove the car near his home and came to a Korean barbecue restaurant. He ordered a bunch of pork belly, beef rolls, and beef tongue, and came with a fragrant barbecue. A cup of draft beer, as if the exhaustion of the day was swept away, Chen Shi said with emotion: "Ah, all day's hard work is for this moment of happiness."
"It would be even better if I could have a drink with the sense of accomplishment in solving the case smoothly!" Lin Dongxue said with his chopsticks and flipping his tongue.
"You are ashamed to say that the previous case was broken yesterday. I could have a lazy sleep at home today, but you put a new case for me."
"Well, good detective Chen, can I toast you a drink?"
The two raised their glasses and touched them. After putting down the glasses, Chen Shi said, "I made some assumptions in my heart."
"What hypothesis?"
"These three people are likely to be murderers."