As a local policeman, is it appropriate for you to take over the job of a criminal policeman?

"So you guys don't bother each other?"

"I guess so. I'm looking for a woman and she wants money. So why did she come to you police officers?"

"I spent so much money on this woman, but in the end, she still wants to cause trouble for me." He Zhenguang said unhappily. So far, he still believed that it was Zhang Hong who called the police.

So this kind of casual couple is like this. Normal couples should first care about whether something happened to the other person, but casual couples only care about their own interests.

Ye Lin did not answer his question, but continued: "Where were you the day before yesterday afternoon?"

According to forensic examination, Zhang Hong died in the afternoon of the day before yesterday.

"The day before yesterday?" He Zhenguang took out his cell phone and started searching, finding his memo on it.

"Oh, I was in a meeting at the company the afternoon before yesterday. There was a quarterly report meeting." He Zhenguang showed the memo to Ye Lin.

"Opened all afternoon?"

"Ah, there's a dinner party tonight. I'll be there. You can check."

"Investigate secretly and don't let people in our company know about it." He Zhenguang specifically instructed.

"So as far as you know, does Zhang Hong have any other men besides you?"

"Definitely not." He Zhenguang said with certainty.

He raised his hand to emphasize, "I told her at the time that we could separate if we didn't get along, but I only had one request: no other men when you're with me."

"She agreed to it. Every time I went to her place, I would check her chat records. That's not the case." He Zhenguang was a little mysteriously confident about this.

"So, those toothbrushes and towels in Zhang Hong's house are all yours, right?"

"It's mine. I asked her to put it there so that other men would know it's owned when they come in."

This He Zhenguang is quite interesting. He even wants to assert his sovereignty when he finds a mistress.

"Smoking?"

"Ah? Yes, but this isn't appropriate in a cafe."

"What brand do you usually smoke?"

"Oh, this." He Zhenguang took out a pack of cigarettes. Ye Lin took a closer look and found that it matched the cigarette butts in the ashtray on Zhang Hong's bedside table.

"Zhang Hong also smokes?"

"She likes to smoke when she plays mahjong, regardless of the fact that she smokes the women's kind."

"When was the last time you saw her?"

As soon as he asked this question, He Zhenguang felt something was wrong. He looked at Ye Lin and Captain Xu in surprise and asked, "Did something happen to her?"

"Something really happened. She was killed. When was the last time you saw her?" Ye Lin said calmly.

When He Zhenguang heard that Zhang Hong was dead, he was so scared that he couldn't close his mouth. "Dead? I saw her before, how could she be dead?"

"When was the last time you saw her?"

"It was the day before yesterday. If you ask me what I was doing the day before yesterday, it was the day before she died. I stayed at her place for one night."

He Zhenguang said calmly that he stayed at Zhang Hong's place for one night, and he didn't seem afraid of being suspected at all.

This made Ye Lin estimate that he was most likely not the murderer.

"I stayed there for one night and then went to work. I never saw her again."

"Did she say what she was going to do?"

He Zhenguang shook his head. "I don't know. Generally speaking, she would sleep a little longer, and after getting up, she would either go out to play with her little sisters or play mahjong."

"I left early that day. I don't know where she went."

He Zhenguang's explanation was already quite clear. Ye Lin collected his DNA sample and planned to go back for comparison.

Another thing is to investigate He Zhenguang's itinerary on the day of the incident.

After returning, he spent most of the day comparing and found that the cigarette butts, toothbrushes, towels, etc. found in Zhang Hong's house were all used by He Zhenguang.

It was indeed as he said, he lived with Zhang Hong.

As for his itinerary on the day of the incident, we learned through indirect sources that he was indeed in a meeting and vomited after drinking in the evening, so he had no time to commit the crime.

......

Now that He Zhenguang has been ruled out, we can only look for other clues.

According to He Zhenguang, Zhang Hong usually goes out to play or play mahjong.

Captain Xu asked the police station to interview the surrounding neighbors, but the results were different from what He Zhenguang said.

Several neighbors said that they had seen Zhang Hong bring different men home, but not just one, but three, who came back to play mahjong.

As for whether there was anything going on between these card-playing friends, the neighbors had all sorts of opinions.

Because it is an old neighborhood with mostly elderly people and more traditional thinking, they tend to think negatively about Zhang Hong's speculations.

Captain Xu and Ye Lin sorted out the information carefully and basically confirmed that when He Zhenguang was not around, Zhang Hong was basically playing mahjong.

There are both men and women, but it’s hard to say whether there are any relationships between men and women.

The most useful piece of information came from the old lady next door. She said that she saw Zhang Hong go out around noon without being dressed up. She asked casually, and Zhang Hong said that she went to play mahjong.

Zhang Hong went to play cards around noon and was killed in the afternoon, so it is very likely that something happened to her during the time she was playing cards.

There are several chess and card rooms near where Zhang Hong lives. Maybe because life here is relatively comfortable, many people play mahjong as their daily pastime and entertainment.

Captain Xu and Ye Lin visited several chess and card rooms, and Zhang Hong was a regular customer in all of them, but they forgot whether Zhang Hong came the day before yesterday because there were too many people coming and going.

When we walked to a chess and card room called Sihai, the owner shook his head and said he didn't know. Suddenly, a woman who was playing mahjong at the table next to us interrupted and said:

"She was here the day before yesterday. I know that."

"Sister, are you sure it was the day before yesterday? Approximately what time did it happen?" Ye Lin asked.

"Sure. I had a fight with her the other day." The elder sister held a cigarette in her mouth, shaking it, looking quite domineering.

"Let me tell you, I got lucky that day and was a huge winner. But that bitch Zhang Hong didn't have the skills, and she insisted that I was colluding with the opponent, so I had a fight with her."

"You're really asking for trouble, huh!"

Judging from the way this lady is doing, she shouldn’t have remembered it wrong.

"Then when did she come? Do you know where she went after that?" Ye Lin asked.

"She came before lunch and had lunch here. She only played for about an hour, and then she started complaining."

"I don't even want to talk to her."

"Police comrade, you should investigate this kind of woman. She doesn't work but only seduces other people's husbands. This is corrupting social morals."

"Then we, the good wives, can only pray for our husbands to be faithful. There is nothing we can do, right?" The eldest sister put her feet on the chair. Ye Lin disagreed when she said that she was a good wife.