River Breeze Night Sparrow

The morning sun pours through the glass windows of the wisteria coffee shop on the warm yellow thick sofa cloth, making everything warm.

Li Caiyan casually stirred the caramel latte in front of her eyes, watching the crowds of tourists outside the window.

Finally, the person she was waiting for appeared in a hurry.

Lin Lin looked at Li Caiyan apologetically, and said, "I'm sorry, classmate Li, for keeping you waiting."

Li Caiyan shook her head and said softly, "It's okay, I'm the one who arrived early."

She couldn't help recalling Gao Xinyu's voice and smile before she died, and she couldn't sit still, so she arrived early.

Lin Lin knew that Li Caiyan couldn't let go of his friend's death, so he didn't beat around the bush. He opened his notebook and said, "Then let's start directly."

"Last time you mentioned that Gao Xinyu has a suitor who has been harassing her and bought her a lot of expensive cosmetics. You don't know who he is, do you?"

Li Caiyan shook his head.

"Apart from that, has he done anything else?"

"He even bought a few picture albums for Xin Yu. She liked them quite a bit, but then she didn't read them very much and threw them in the cabinet in the classroom."

Li Caiyan took out two or three picture albums from his bag, and handed them to Lin Lin with both hands.

The cover of the top album is a man in black, his face twisted like tree rings, staring at the viewer like an abyss.The styles of the other albums are also very similar, a little bit explicit and exaggerated.

Li Caiyan lowered his eyes and sighed, with a bit of sadness and grievance on his face. "This week, they're going to remove all of Xin Yu's desks. I secretly brought these things myself."

"Also, these are Xin Yu's paintings. Sometimes she will secretly draw something else, and if she is not satisfied, she will throw it in a lump in the cabinet. I found it when I was tidying up, and it was all laid out and nailed up."

She paused, and said: "Originally, I planned to keep these for myself, but I think that painting is also a kind of expression. Maybe Xin Yu has some things that can't be said to others, and they are all painted in the paintings."

Lin Lindao: "Thank you, these are of great help to us in solving the case."

He put away all the things that Li Caiyan delivered, and continued: "Go on and talk about the suitor. Do you know if he is on campus or off campus?"

Li Caiyan shook his head and said, "I don't know, I've never seen him, and I've always heard about him in Xinyu."

She thought for a while and said, "However, they should have known each other from the studio, because once get out of class was over, Xin Yu refused to leave, saying she was waiting for someone. I was also in a hurry that day, so I left early and didn't see that person."

She added: "Xin Yu was almost the only one talking to me at school, and we didn't walk together after school that day."

Lin Lin wrote "outsider" in his notes and put a question mark.

He asked again: "So, Gao Xinyu is not very popular in school?"

"Well. Xin Yu doesn't like to talk. They think Xin Yu has depression, and they are afraid of dating her. I have a sister-in-law who had depression before, so I am not afraid. I think they need help. Slowly work hard, and they can still change. back to healthy people."

It can be seen that Li Caiyan is a friend who sincerely wants to help Gao Xinyu.

Lin Lin's pen paused, and asked, "You know about depression, so do you think, judging from Gao Xinyu's state at that time, she would commit suicide?"

Li Caiyan pursed her lips, feeling depressed.

"Caiyan?" Seeing Li Caiyan suddenly dazed, Lin Lin gently called her name, calling her back to reality.

Li Caiyan looked at Lin Lin with a twinkle in his eyes. "Actually... Actually, at the beginning, before the police came to the school, I didn't suspect Xin Yu's suicide. During that time, she was often in a trance."

"Although, some days later, she suddenly became a lot happier, as if she was relieved, and her mood was several degrees higher than usual."

Lin Lin: "Besides this suitor, has she mentioned anyone else to you? Especially men."

"It seems that she only talked about her father. Xinyu is not very interested in boys. She thinks boys nowadays are immature and boring. She only admires mature boys, because Xinyu said that even her father, It also took many years to become mature and reliable."

Lin Lin raised her head upon hearing this.He asked: "What is the relationship between Gao Xinyu and your studio teacher?"

"Teacher Jia is very nice and teaches well."

"Does he care about Gao Xinyu?"

"I think it's similar to other students. I feel that even he is a little afraid of Xin Yu's depression."

"I have one last question here. Do you know Gao Xinyu's medication situation, such as whether she takes sleeping pills or not?"

Li Caiyan said: "If you take medicine, I remember that she seemed to mention some paroxetine. However, she should not take sleeping pills much. Because I also have a little insomnia, I will take some melatonin, and I brought her two cans. I also think it is quite effective. My mother said that taking too many sleeping pills has serious side effects, and melatonin is slightly better.”

After some inquiries, Lin Lin left his phone number, got up and shook hands with Li Caiyan.

"Thank you, Caiyan, you have provided us with very valuable clues to investigate the case. If you still think of anything in the future, please call me anytime."

Lin Ling paused, and said, "We all feel sorry for Xin Yu's death. Don't blame yourself, and continue to live well with her expectations."

Li Caiyan was stunned for a while, then tilted her head to wipe away her tears, and nodded.

Just when Lin Lin turned around and was about to leave, she suddenly stopped Lin Lin and said, "Brother, did Xin Yu really commit suicide?"

Lin Lin looked at Li Caiyan and hesitated for a moment, but finally nodded with regret.

"However, we will definitely arrest the bad guys behind this, so that Xin Yu can freely live a happier life in another beautiful place."

He looked at the girl opposite with red eyes sincerely, and asked softly, "Caiyan, are you willing to believe us?"

Li Caiyan nodded heavily.

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Jiang Yi who came out of the detention center frowned and received a call from Lin Lin.

"What did Hou Shihao say?"

Jiang Yi rubbed Shan Gen wearily, and said: "What he said was ambiguous, and I haven't figured it out yet. I can only say that the person he is protecting has a lot to do with him. We have to dig deeper. "

Lin Lindao: "Okay. In this case, Ping An Puhui's SMS, we can only adapt to the situation."

Just in the middle of the night today, Hou Shihao's mobile phone, which was detained as evidence, received a call from an unknown number, and then received a message from the same number——

"Why didn't you answer the phone again? There is still tomorrow. If you don't pay back the money, those photos will be sent out. It won't wait for a second. You can figure it out yourself!"

After receiving the text message, Jiang Yi and others frowned and looked at it together for a while, and they agreed that it was true that the usury was asking for money if they were urged so urgently and in such a harsh tone.

Just, whose photos are "those photos"?

The police originally thought that the purpose of Hou Shihao's loan shark was to buy an air ticket for Wang Qianchi, but now it seems uncertain.

According to common sense, the so-called threatening photos are only naked/photographed.However, Hou Shihao is a man, would he care if his nude photos are leaked?

If it's not nude/photographed, what else could be used to threaten Hou Shihao?Evidence of murder?

When interrogating Hou Shihao, Jiang Yi didn't mention the photo clearly, but just looked him up and down, and said, "You seem quite calm, don't you worry about usury outside?"

Hearing this, Hou Shihao's body froze as expected, but then he showed a deliberate smile, and the skin on his thin face was wrinkled without elasticity.

"Isn't it thanks to you guys locking me up? How could they know that I was in the trap? It's good to hide here, so that I won't be caught and beaten by them again."

Listening to Jiang Yi's retelling, Lin Lin frowned and asked, "Aren't they going to make trouble at Hou Shihao's company?"

"Hou Shihao seems to have a hand in it, saying that the people at Ping An Puhui don't know where his company is."

Jiang Yidao: "Speaking of which, has his monkey fishing studio checked?"

Lin Lin gave a "hmm" and said, "The boss and some other employees are not familiar with Hou Shihao."

Jiang Yi: "Well, we can only try fishing first."

At the same time, in the lonely night, the lights of thousands of houses have been turned off, and in a smoky mahjong room deep in Sleepless Alley, a burly man full of tattoos glanced at the mobile phone that had just received a letter, and saw a text message saying : "Recently something happened at home, the card is out of money, please, can you accommodate me for two more days?"

The burly man sneered when he saw the news, and replied word by word with a cigarette in his mouth: "There is nothing to accommodate. When I borrowed this money, I had to follow my rules. Don't tell me that there is no money in the card, even if If you grab the cash for me, you must pay me back the money on time tomorrow, otherwise, you know, haha!"

The other party hesitated for a while, and finally replied: "Okay, then I can only take cash. The location is up to you."

On the mahjong table, the man stretched out his hand to touch a good card, dropped the cigarette from his mouth to the ground, laughed and yelled "Huh!"He happily framed and took away the banknotes on the table, accepted them without any hesitation, and left the table.

"Brother Hu, you're so lucky, let's play another round!" The brothers next to him booed.

Brother Hu waved his hand, pointed at the phone and said with a smile, "Stop messing with me, come on, Xiao Li, I'm here for business."

A new round of poker games started over there, and Brother Hu leaned against the door and replied: "In the alley on the left at the unlit street light at the east gate of the Chengbei Vegetable Market, plus interest of 10, 30:[-]."

Brother Hu at 10:30 the next day did not get his [-] in cash as he wished, but arrived at the detention center with a bruised nose and a swollen face, his whole body sore and embarrassed.

Brother Hu, who was almost torn apart, thought regretfully: If I had known that my luck in playing cards was so good last night, but today I was so unlucky that I was caught by the police.

"Jiang Yi, I didn't expect you to be hit on the head, and the shot is even stronger." Lin Lin patted the shoulder of the heroic detachment leader to express his admiration.

Jiang Yi chuckled and said, "That's all? It's not enough for me to plug my teeth."

Seeing the handsome man in front of him baring his teeth and sneering at him three times, Brother Hu instantly became a cat boy, and suddenly felt panicked.

He purposely made an appointment in an alley with no street lights. On the one hand, he wanted to avoid people's eyes and ears. On the other hand, he planned to give him a good lesson and exercise his muscles.But he never expected that instead, he was beaten severely, and those tiny stones on the ground rubbed his flesh hard, which hurt him badly.

"Tell me, you loaned usury to Hou Shihao, what are you holding him against?" The police officer who said he was going to "stuff his teeth" suddenly approached him with a cold face, Brother Hu broke out in a cold sweat again .

"Brother Police, I, this is a regular usury. I, my interest is in compliance with the law..."

In fact, he didn't lie. Brother Hu's "usury" interest rate is indeed legal, but he used abnormal means to threaten debtors.It seems that in order to take advantage of the loopholes, I still did some "homework".

Jiang Yi narrowed his eyes and said, "Then do you know why Hou Shihao has been silent recently? Because he committed a crime of life. Shen Xiaohu, I know that you are also timid before the law and dare not act casually." , so I advise you to tell the truth, otherwise, we reasonably suspect that he has half of the cases on his back."

Shen Xiaohu panicked, and said: "Don't, don't, I said everything, I recruited! But, there is one thing I don't understand."

He asked a little timidly: "Brother policeman, is the Hou Shihao you mentioned a pseudonym?"

Lin Lin frowned: "Then who did you lend this usury to?"

Brother Hu swallowed, and said, "Gao Xingyu."

"Gao Xinyu?" Jiang Yi and Lin Lin were both taken aback.

"Yeah. He, he sent me naked photos of his girlfriend."

"What does his girlfriend look like? Find it out and show me." Jiang Yi's face was gloomy, like a dark cloud of doom.He handed the phone to Shen Xiaohu who was in handcuffs, and stared at him as he opened the encrypted folders layer by layer from the secret folder of the photo album, and finally found the one belonging to "Gao Xingyu".

Just before Shen Xiaohu clicked on the last folder, Jiang Yi snatched the phone away, and said coldly: "Okay, you don't need to look at it."

Jiang Yi and Lin Lin glanced at each other, and were speechless for a moment, as if hesitating whether to tear down the curtain of this cruel scene of hell.

Finally, they quietly looked at the lonely and helpless Gao Xinyu one after another in the folder. She was as naked as a fragile baby, holding her ID card, looking at the camera blankly, her face with a smile that looks like weeping