Eye of Sin

"Do you think Hong Xinli's murder this time may be related to the earlier incident?" Huo Yan asked.

Ning Shuyi shrugged: "I'm not sure now, but it's just like the evaluation Kang Ge gave us.

It can be said that the progress of our investigation this time seems to be smooth, but in fact it is running into obstacles everywhere.

Suspects with motive for committing the crime appeared one after another, but either there was evidence of alibi, or they did not fit the crime style and modus operandi of the case. In short, there seemed to be many roads in front of them, but none of them worked.

So I couldn't help but wonder, could the motive for the murder in this case be much deeper than we thought? Is there any information here that we can't grasp besides the superficial grievances and grievances?

Originally it was just such a superficial idea, but when Luo Wei helped us investigate, he found something fishy about Hong Xinli's household registration and identity, which confirmed my original guess.

Among these people, maybe some of them are old acquaintances of Hong Xinli, and their friendship is more than what it seems.

I am indeed very interested in the fact that Chen Dagang and his wife are so secretive. "

"Zhai Yujiang said before that Hong Xinli rarely mentioned anything about his past years as a student. He either talked about his childhood or things during college. On the contrary, he talked to Hong Xinli during his junior and senior high school years. When I got up, Hong Xinli changed the topic and she seemed reluctant to bring it up." Huo Yan recalled the details Zhai Yujiang mentioned, "The reason why Hong Xinli dropped out of school was definitely not that simple."

Ning Shuyi frowned: "Let's go back to Captain Dong to discuss this matter."

After all, it involved a new direction that was completely different from the previous investigation ideas. Huo Yan also felt that it was necessary to ask for instructions and report back, so the two of them went straight back, found Dong Weifeng, and communicated with him.

Dong Weifeng was also very interested in this new idea of ​​Ning Shuyi and Huo Yan and was very supportive. When he called everyone else together, he held a brief meeting and arranged the tasks that everyone needed to do and asked them to focus on it. Keep track of every move of the target person you are responsible for, and report immediately if there is any change.

Ning Shuyi and Huo Yan were responsible for looking for Hong Xinli, or she was still showing her status as Chen Meizi, her school status at that time, and looking for the teachers who taught her and her classmates to understand the situation back then.

The incident happened twenty years ago, almost twenty-one years ago to be exact, and it was not particularly easy to figure it out. First of all, we encountered a problem in finding the teacher who taught Hong Xinli back then.

"What? He's dead?" Ning Shuyi was surprised and a little disappointed when he heard what Huo Yan told him.

Huo Yan nodded and sighed: "The head teacher who was in charge of Hong Xinli at the time was already fifty years old. He died the year before last and suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and could not be saved.

The other teachers who taught her in the school, after twenty years, have no impression of this student at all.

And because when Hong Xinli graduated from junior high school twenty years ago, social software was not as developed as it is now, so the school did not keep statistics on the contact information of graduates, and their class did not have a class group on any platform.

Even if Hong Xinli changed her name, she would no longer be in contact with her former classmates, so we have to work harder to find her old classmates. "

There is still a big difference between twenty years ago and now. Although the Internet had already emerged at that time, in terms of development level, it was not comparable to what it is today.

Especially in those days, although many people had begun to use some social software as a tool to communicate with each other, without the blessing of various "groups", they were like a ball of loose sand. Only by having a good relationship with each other could it be possible. We have still kept in touch over the years. Some of them may have been relatively close in the past, but later they drifted apart due to different life circumstances, and gradually lost contact and became lost among the crowd.

This situation is particularly obvious here with Hong Xinli.

Ning Shuyi and Huo Yan contacted Zhai Yujiang the next day and asked him to carefully recall whether Hong Xinli had close contact with any of her former classmates during the many years they had known each other, or even if they were not close enough, they were still in contact.

Zhai Yujiang thought about it but still couldn't recall any information about Hong Xinli's middle school stage.

"Lili has really never told me about her middle and high school years!" Zhai Yujiang said to them helplessly, "I have told her about my middle school years before, and she heard the same thing. There is a match but there is no match.

I actually asked her later what it was like when she was in middle school, and she said she couldn't remember.

I remember that she was always unwilling to engage in such conversation. Not only was she unwilling to talk to me, but she seemed to find it quite annoying to hear me talk about it.

One time I told her about how I was on the school football team when I was in junior high school, and she suddenly became unhappy. She said that a hero is not only brave in his youth, but in reality, when he grows up, he doesn’t do well at all. , I especially like to recall the past.

I didn’t know if I accidentally mentioned something that made her unhappy again, so I didn’t mention it again. "

He sighed helplessly. Although he tried hard to restrain it, he still couldn't restrain the sad emotion: "Actually, she doesn't like chatting with me very much. No matter what aspect of communication we have, it's actually very difficult." not much.

She said that she wanted me because I am a more practical and reliable person, not because of the spiritual resonance between the two of us.

I was pretty pretty at the time, and I felt like she was affirming me.

Thinking about it later, I found it quite sad. My wife said it quite tactfully, but in the final analysis, it meant that I had nothing in common. "

Ning Shuyi and Huo Yan didn't know how to comfort him. They could only listen to his complaints and encourage him. They couldn't ask anything and couldn't force him, so they almost left.

After leaving Zhai Yujiang, Ning Shuyi felt a little emotional. Every time she saw Zhai Yujiang, she would have this very complicated feeling.

"The life that everyone pursues is really different." She couldn't help but sigh and asked Huo Yan, "If there is someone you like who has no interest in you, But because I am greedy for your added value in a certain aspect, I choose to accept you and be with you. Will you be happy and accept it happily? "

Huo Yan shook his head without thinking: "I have no added value for others to covet."

As soon as the words came out, he saw Ning Shuyi cast a condemning look. Huo Yan realized that he had said such self-denial words again, touched his neck and smiled guiltily.