CLG Chapter 5

As he expected, with the increasing attention on Meng Yue’s death, he was called to a meeting early this morning, where the leaders urged them to quickly investigate the Meng Yue case. This matter was not only being watched by the police, but also by the media and the public.

“Let’s go.”

Through social workers, they successfully found Meng Yue’s residence and learned some of her past.

They hadn’t lived here for a long time, and had only returned not long ago. The community workers weren’t very clear about their recent situation.

Li Zhong and Yang Xiaomin got out of the car together. They took out the key and opened the door.

The key was found in Meng Yue’s bag. They didn’t come to investigate immediately because the address on Meng Yue’s ID card was different from her residence. The address on her ID card was the address where they used to rent. They only got this accurate address yesterday after asking Shi Hua and the community workers. It seemed that Shi Hua and Meng Yue should have relatively close contact.

Standing at the door, Li Zhong observed it slightly. The door wasn’t new, and there wasn’t a trace of rust on the door lock.

With a “click,” he twisted open the door. A cool and quiet room greeted him. Pushing the door in, there was a shoe cabinet with two layers of women’s shoes on it. It seemed that only the sisters lived here.

The building shouldn’t be too old. Judging from the decoration style, it was quite old. The sunlight shone in through the half-drawn curtains, and the cheap ceiling reflected the only light in the living room.

“Didn’t she donate a lot of money? In theory, buying a new house would be more than enough. Why is she still living in this kind of place?”

“I don’t know, let’s take a look.”

Rejecting a good house, not buying a new house, and insisting on living in this kind of place… it was a bit special.

Next to the living room was the kitchen. The kitchen was also quite tidy, with pots and bowls neatly placed. The refrigerator was empty. Didn’t she prepare ingredients? Li Zhong closed the refrigerator in confusion. Whether it was the balcony, living room, or kitchen, there was no dust accumulation. Obviously, she lived here regularly. The toilet was also quite clean.

“This seems to be her bedroom.” The empty house seemed to only hear the sound of his own footsteps. Suddenly, Yang Xiaomin’s shout came from his ear.

Li Zhong followed the sound and found Yang Xiaomin. She was standing in front of a table. The decoration of this room was much better than outside. Even the windows by the table were hung with cartoon gauze curtains, which was quite in line with a girl’s boudoir.

“This should be her desk. She has a lot of books and photos here,” Yang Xiaomin said, pointing to the wall under the table.

Many books related to biochemistry seemed to be placed on the bookshelf. They should be university textbooks. There were also two rows of novels, one row of pure literature and one row of suspense novels. Other types of books were scattered among them.

“Look at this photo, they look so alike!” Yang Xiaomin said, picking up a fallen photo from the table.

At this time, he realized that one of them was Meng Yue’s sister, Meng Huan, who died at the beginning of this year.

“It’s like a fake. Are they twins! They are all so beautiful,” Yang Xiaomin exclaimed.

“The one with long hair should be her,” Li Zhong said, thinking of the deceased Meng Yue.

The house was a three-bedroom apartment. Li Zhong walked to a room next to it. He glanced at it. The decoration here was similar to the previous one. If that room was Meng Yue’s, then this room was her sister Meng Huan’s. The dressing table had no dust, and the mirror was clean. However, what was strange was that there were still cosmetics placed here. It seemed that even after Meng Huan’s death, Meng Yue often came to clean this place. Both rooms were very clean. Li Zhong observed it slightly. The table here seemed much simpler, because the bookshelves below were used to store sundries, and there weren’t many books. It seemed that this was indeed the room of her sister Meng Huan, who dropped out of school.

Li Zhong simply checked it and went out. He closed the door, and Yang Xiaomin patted his shoulder from behind, holding the framed photo in her hand.

“Hello, we are…” Li Zhong stepped forward and showed his credentials. Only then did the woman nod. “No wonder you’re wearing these clothes. So you’re police officers.” She hesitated, but was about to turn around and leave. Li Zhong quickly stopped her.

“Auntie, don’t go, don’t go. I want to ask you, who are you?”

“Something happened to her. She can’t come back. We’re here to investigate.”

“She’s dead?”

“How did you know?”

The photo was a group photo of the family. It was a pity to see it now…

“Did they often live here? Do you know if they had any contact with anyone else?” Li Zhong asked.

“Speaking of this, they rarely stayed here after their parents left.”

“Why?”

Hearing this, Li Zhong took out a photo, “This one?” The woman shook her head, and Li Zhong changed another one, “This one?” The woman squinted her eyes and said in an uncertain tone, “It seems so.” The second photo was of Shi Hua.

“I don’t know, I haven’t heard of her.”

The two said goodbye to her. Yang Xiaomin looked at the photo in her hand and felt quite sympathetic. Her parents died early, and her sister also passed away from illness at the beginning of this year. Now she also…

“Let’s go.”

“I heard that you have arrested a suspect. Is that true?”

Traffic was a good thing, but now that this wave of traffic was pressing on them, they also felt heavy, constantly urging them to solve the case quickly.

Back at the police station, another investigation team also returned. They went to ask Meng Yue’s former colleagues, that is, the colleagues Meng Yue had when she was a teacher, and got the following testimony:

“Meng Yue was a very nice person. She always spoke softly and was very kind to people.”

“She was always very hardworking and prepared lessons very carefully. She was good at work, but… she didn’t talk much in life.”

“Although we were in the same office, she rarely took the initiative to talk to us. She rarely took things we brought to her, and she never went to our gatherings after work. At first, we thought she didn’t like to socialize, but then we found out that she just didn’t like socializing.”

“She said that she didn’t drink coffee or alcohol. We basically had no other communication besides work.”

Speaking of why Meng Yue resigned, most people didn’t know. Only three people who usually communicated with her a little recalled it.

“Actually, she was fine when she first came, but soon I felt that she wasn’t suitable for this job. I don’t know how to say it, but she seemed very careful at work, and she also felt like she had some problems in handling interpersonal relationships. I think she resigned because of the pressure.”

“She got sick once after she resigned. I came to see her specially. Later, I asked the doctor and found out that she seemed to have suffered from depression.”

“Anyway, I heard them say that Meng Yue’s mental state wasn’t very good.”

…

“We’ll go find Li Shuxuan this afternoon. I want to see what Shi Hua is doing.” Since it was Shi Hua’s intelligence, he couldn’t have given such a person’s name for no reason. As Chen Xuelin’s wife, she might really know something about the case.

This case itself was a bit strange. The clues on the living were basically concentrated on two people, one was Shi Hua and the other was Mo Wenli. Whether it was from social relationships or contacts, besides these two, it seemed that no one else could be found on Meng Yue.

“Xiaomin, have someone check her information at the hospital later.”

“Okay.”

Outside the police station, the reporters who had been turned away didn’t get any news.

“Are you Shi, the reporter from Jiangcheng Daily? You once interviewed the deceased. I saw that there are several articles about her in your report. What is your relationship? Do you know her?”

“Didn’t she write it clearly? Chen Xuelin.” Shi Hua suddenly had an idea.

“Reporter Shi, don’t tease us. According to our investigation, Chen Xuelin, the one related to Meng Yue, died a long time ago,” someone jumped out to explain.

Shi Hua didn’t admit it, but just smiled and said, “He’s dead? So what? Can’t dead people kill people?”

Hearing this, everyone laughed, “We are all serious reporters. We don’t write unfounded things. That person has been buried in the ground, and now it’s estimated that only bones are left. Don’t tease us, brother,” one of them said.

Hearing that there was gossip, some people immediately became interested.

After dealing with these people, Shi Hua stood up, his mouth was dry. Reporters were just cattle and horses, rushing to where there was news. He was also free to rush to the next place.

He opened his phone, and the picture on the screen was of a smiling girl.

“I hope I didn’t go the wrong way this time,” he muttered to himself as he looked at the time.

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