Detective Files II

289 Bystander

Lu Xiangdong's inexplicability made Tian Mi completely unable to guess what he was up to, and returned home in a daze, and was questioned by Tian's mother for a long time, because the old lady was anxiously waiting for Tian Yang brothers and sisters to get off work, and looked around on the balcony. Seeing Tian Mi and a tall man come back, the two stood downstairs for a long time.

It took Tian Mi a long time to convince Tian's mother that it was really just because Tian Yang still had something to deal with, so her colleagues from the work unit sent her home to chat about work.

These words are not entirely lies, at most they are half-truths and half-truths. It's not that Tian Mi intends to lie to Tian's mother. In fact, at this juncture, she is still in a mess about her own emotional development and can't understand it. To get the hang of things, if Mama Tian gets involved, it will only make things worse.

After finally getting rid of Tian’s mother’s cross-examination, Tian Mi was not idle. She took the time to sort out the information of friends who were close to Wu Liang from the previous investigation, and marked the ones that need to be understood, and planned to do it the next day. Take your time and try to gain something no matter what.

Early the next morning, Lu Xiangdong parked his car downstairs and waited without making a call. If Tian Mi hadn't habitually looked downstairs, he might not have noticed.

Finding that he had already arrived, Tian Mi couldn't just sit at home leisurely, let others wait outside, grab a bag of milk, and rush out of the house with bread in her mouth.

"Why didn't you call me when you arrived?" Tian Mi asked while getting into the car while finishing her breakfast.

Lu Xiangdong originally leaned on the back of the chair and closed his eyes to rest, but he opened his eyes when he heard her getting into the car.

"Because I want to be quiet for a while longer." He replied insincerely.

Tian Mi would believe this kind of answer is a ghost. She always felt that something was wrong with Lu Xiangdong these days. In the past, although he was unpredictable, he always acted unexpectedly, but most of the time, he looked lazy. Why? They are all indifferent, as if they don't care.

But these days, he is not like this.

Although it looks the same on the surface, whether good or bad, his emotions are fleeting and there is no big ups and downs, but Tian Mi can see and feel that he seems to be under a lot of pressure, as if he is tied down by something live.

If it happened to someone else, it might not be a big deal, but when it happened to Lu Xiangdong, it was even more amazing than a comet hitting the earth.

"I want to ask you something, let me tell you first! If you don't like to hear what I ask, you can just pretend that I haven't said anything! Don't be unhappy!" Tian Mi asked the question before she asked, and put the condition first. spread out.

Lu Xiangdong nodded.

"Your mother pestered you again and gave you a problem?" Tian Mi asked cautiously.

Lu Xiangdong looked at her strangely: "Why do you think so?"

"Because I think you seem to be very preoccupied these days, as if you have a heavy psychological burden, so... I just guessed randomly!" Tian Mi was very afraid of accidentally stepping on a minefield.

Fortunately, Lu Xiangdong's mood was very stable, he just squeezed out a faint smile and shook his head: "She doesn't have that much ability."

"Oh, that's good." This answer overturned Tian Mi's previous guess, and made her unable to ask further questions, so she had to give up.

"Do you need to go to the Public Security Bureau first, or somewhere else?"

Tian Mi took out the address from her bag and handed it to Lu Xiangdong. Lu Xiangdong glanced at it, started the car, drove out of the community, and drove towards the destination.

The first thing they found was a friend who had a relationship with Wu Liang from his father's generation. His name was Liu Hui. He was an honest, middle-aged man in his 40s who worked in a certain public institution. The middle-aged man was still just a staff member. Tian Mi and Lu Xiangdong finally found out about him, because many young staff members in the same unit did not know that there was such a person in the unit when they first heard Liu Hui's name.

Not only did Liu Hui have a popular name, but his appearance also belonged to the public face that could not be found in the crowd. After finally finding him, he was extremely surprised after explaining his purpose. He was completely ignorant of Wu Liang's death.

"Old Wu is dead?" Liu Hui stared hard at the two originally small eyes, and the eye sockets were almost split open with surprise, "When did it happen? How did he die?"

Tian Mi had no choice but to give him a general explanation of the situation that could be made public.

After listening to Tian Mi's words, Liu Hui didn't close his mouth for a long time, and after being stunned for a long time, he sighed and shook his head: "Old Wu, why did such a thing happen to him! well!"

"Have you known Wu Liang for a long time?" Tian Mi waited for a long time, but Liu Hui had no intention of opening his mouth except for a sentence of emotion, so she concluded that he was a boring character, so she had to take the initiative to ask questions.

Liu Hui really belongs to the passive type, he doesn't ask and doesn't talk, and he doesn't hold back when asked: "Hey, I've known him since I was a child."

After speaking, he fell silent again.

Good guy, this is still a master who takes a step with a whip!Tian Mi thought to herself.

"Since we have been old friends for so many years, you must know Wu Liang and his life very well!"

As Mr. Rochester said in Jane Eyre, the rock will not come to Freud, you can only help Freud go to the mountain.Liu Hui didn't ask or tell, so Tian Mi had no choice but to guide him step by step to obtain information.

"Well, I can't really say. I know what old Wu was like before, but I dare not say what he is like later, and I don't know at all about his life in recent years." Liu Hui was a little embarrassed answer.

"You haven't been in touch recently?"

"It's not that there are not many, it's because I haven't contacted for a long time. Otherwise, I wouldn't even know such a big thing as his death."

"Has there been a conflict?"

"What conflicts can there be between us?" Liu Hui smiled wryly and shook his head, "His wife doesn't like to let him associate with me, maybe it's because she thinks I'm old and worthless, and she's afraid that it will be affected if Lao Wu is with me. .”

"Wife you're talking about, is it Qi Bing or Gui Xiuqin?" This question is very important, and Tian Mi must ask it clearly.

"Gui Xiuqin."

"Do you know Qi Bing?"

"Then why don't we know each other? My parents and Lao Wu's parents are neighbors. I have known Qi Bing since he was introduced to Qi Bing."

"In your impression, what is Qi Bing like?"

When asked about Qi Bing, Liu Hui's face was full of sympathy: "Qi Bing is a good woman, if it weren't for... well, forget it, everyone is dead, so I won't mention it."

"You mean that Wu Liang filed for divorce because he disliked Qi Bing's family history of mental illness?" Tian Mi guessed what Liu Hui was hesitant to say.

Sure enough, she was right, Liu Hui was stunned for a moment, and nodded: "Yes, that's it. The two of them were very good at first, but Wu Liang couldn't get over this hurdle. Qi Bing was very energetic when he was young. I saw him last year. After passing her once, she is no longer in good shape, what a crime."

It can be seen that Liu Hui's impression of Qi Bing is still good. There may be some impressions of Qi Bing before the onset of the disease. After all, he and Wu Liang have not been in touch for many years, let alone Qi Bing. The state of the has no concept at all.

"From what I just said, it's not just Qi Bing, you also know Wu Liang's wife, Gui Xiuqin, who remarried later?" Tian Mi put aside Qi Bing, and shifted the topic to Gui Xiuqin.

Hearing Gui Xiuqin's name, Liu Hui involuntarily wrinkled his facial features slightly towards the center of his face, and nodded.

"You don't like Gui Xiuqin very much, do you?" Lu Xiangdong stared at Liu Hui, focusing on his face, "Besides that she doesn't like Wu Liang's contact with you, there are other things that make you hate her .”

He used a definite declarative sentence for this sentence, without a hint of doubt. Liu Hui looked at him in a little surprise, and forgot how to answer it. I think it's better not to say it, old Wu Gang died, I'm a big man, it's not good to gossip behind his back about other people's wives."

"There's nothing wrong with this. Wu Liang is your old friend. Now everything should be focused on finding out who killed him. Your understanding and opinion of the people around Wu Liang is very important to us." Tian Seeing that he wanted to retreat, Mi hurriedly encouraged him.

When Tian Mi said this, Liu Hui felt embarrassed to evade, sighed again, and said, "How can I say this! In fact, it's just my personal subjective opinion. Not long after Wu Liang got divorced, he told me about Gui Xiu. Qin took the initiative to approach him, treated him very well, and was a little moved, so I told him to let him get to know each other better, the first marriage was very hasty, and the second time can't be so impulsive."

"You had a bad impression of Gui Xiuqin before Wu Liang and Gui Xiuqin got married? You knew each other before?" Tian Mi caught Liu Hui's overtones.

"Hey, Gui Xiuqin and I used to be middle school classmates." Liu Hui looked helpless, "Maybe Wu Liang told her what I said to Wu Liang later, so she didn't like me and Wu Liang so much. Let's get in touch."

"What did you say to Wu Liang? Did it have a big influence on Wu Liang and Gui Xiuqin?" Tian Mi couldn't help being curious.

"I also heard from another classmate that when Gui Xiuqin married Wu Liang, she was an old girl. In fact, she had a boyfriend who was talking about marriage before, but she and Zhun The mother-in-law made a big fuss, and the marriage fell through. At that time, she and the classmate who told me about it accidentally bumped into the husband of a female classmate in our class who cheated. I didn’t talk about it, but Gui Xiuqin turned back on what she said, and went to talk to that female classmate emphatically, causing her wife to be separated and her family to be unable to start a family.” Liu Hui no longer concealed his contempt for Gui Xiuqin at this moment, “From then on After that, I felt that this woman is not a fuel-efficient lamp."

(End of this chapter)