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After dinner, Gao Ju dragged Zhang Xiaoxin to talk in the living room, presumably to discuss the case.

Bai Yang came out of the bathroom and saw Gao Kangjian's wife mopping the floor and washing dishes in the kitchen, while Gao Kangjian was standing alone on the balcony smoking a cigarette, he thought for a while, went to the balcony, and warmly greeted: "Give me one too." Gao Kangjian gave him a sideways look, shook out a cigarette from the cigarette case and lit it for him.

After exhaling a puff of cigarettes, Gao Kangjian said indignantly, "Can't stand the old man being so eccentric? I heard that you are also a transferred colleague, and I have never seen such enthusiasm for you."

Bai Yang held a cigarette between his hands and let it burn slowly, "There's no way, who told Gao Ju to know Team Zhang early in the morning."

"It's not just acquaintance, it's closer than my own son! I have to stand aside... As for the bottle of wine I drank today, the old man has hidden it for several years, and I can't move it. When he comes, open it and drink it." Gao Kangjian took a deep breath. He took a puff of cigarette, mixed with resentment and jealousy.

Bai Yang put on a gesture of sympathy, and said sincerely: "You are not bad, the market of the traffic police is so good, and you are only 25, so you have a better future than us."

His compliment Gao Kangjian was very helpful, and he immediately opened up the chatterbox, boasting: "I don't think you are worse than that Zhang Xiaoxin, he is just an embroidered pillow, useless!"

Bai Yang followed his words and said, "He is lucky."

"Fart, he's a liar." Gao Kangjian extinguished his cigarette on the stainless steel railing, "Do you know how he got online with my dad? At that time, my mom had just passed away, and he ran to my house and told my dad He knew my mother's last wish, but my father believed it obsessively, do you think it's ridiculous?"

Bai Yang reasoned carefully, and asked doubtfully, "How could he know... Lingtang's last wish?"

"I made it up... When my mother was alive, the old man didn't care about it, but after he died, he listened to a brat who came out of nowhere. He really thought it was a big deal to be a bad bureau chief." Gao Kangjian said to Gao Ju Many resentments, because Bai Yang is a stranger, poured out without any scruples.

At this time, the watchphone on his wrist vibrated lightly. Bai Yang clicked on the message, two unread messages, one was Wei Ran, and the IP address was traced to the Internet cafe. According to the monitoring and Internet records, the person who posted the message has been found, and it is definitely Qing Yueyi. middle school students.The second one is Zheng Xixi. What came was a list of all the people who appeared in the monitoring on the 5th and 14th floors from the 11th to the 13th, and who were not residents of the 11th to 14th buildings. There are nine people in total. Seven of them are residents of other buildings in the community, and the other two, one is a cleaner hired by the community property, and the other is still verifying their identity.

Zheng Xixi must have not stopped for a moment to give the result so quickly. The passerby marked as "unknown" in the form is probably the murderer.

The investigation of the case seems to be going too smoothly.

Bai Yang looked at Zhang Xiaoxin, who was also reading the news.

"Is there any progress in the case?" Gao Kangjian suddenly came up to him, but Bai Yang skillfully avoided him, and said goodbye to him politely: "No, I have to go back to the bureau for a meeting, and we will talk next time." At the same time, he threw away the burnt cigarette butt Into the trash can.

Before leaving, Gao Kangjian secretly glanced at his wife in the kitchen, slipped a note to Bai Yang, and said ambiguously, "Call me when you have time, you know."

Bai Yang was stunned for a while, and then he leaned into his ear and said: "Young Master Gao is very interested, but I never date married men."

"Don't worry, come to me anytime you want, and let you have a taste like never before." Gao Kangjian didn't care about his rejection, and shook hands with him affectionately to say goodbye after speaking.

Bai Yang suppressed the disgust and disgust in his heart, and smiled lightly.

As soon as he left Gao's house, he immediately threw the note away, and even wiped the hand that had been shaken with a wet tissue several times before he felt relieved.

"You don't need to take me with you when you go to Chief Gao's house in the future." Bai Yang sat in the co-pilot, feeling terrible.

Seeing him wiping his hands frantically, Zhang Xiaoxin thought he was obsessed with cleanliness, "Is his house very dirty? It's not that..."

"It's dirty." Isn't Gao Kangjian dirty enough for marriage fraud?Bai Yang felt sick when he thought of his wretched eyes.

"I'm sorry, I made up my own mind." Zhang Xiaoxin felt a little stuffy, opened the car window, and the car was filled with fresh air. Business: "Do you think the message Wu Shoucai's driver received was sent by himself or by the murderer?"

The first deceased, Wu Shoucai, left Cathay Pacific Bieyuan in his private car at 5:5 p.m. on May 5th. The last place where the car was photographed by surveillance was Great World Plaza. On the afternoon of May 6th, the driver of Wu’s family received a message that Wu Shoucai Let him go to the underground garage of the square to pick up the car and drive home, and claimed that he would go out for a few days to relax, and then lost contact until the body was found.

Zhang Xiaoxin pondered for a moment, then replied: "It's all possible, I prefer it to be sent by Wu Shoucai himself, there is no need for the murderer to specially send a message to the driver to say that he remembers to pick up the car, if it is to create the illusion that Wu Shoucai is going away, the secretary is a better choice. The driver’s statement also mentioned that Wu Shoucai treasured his expensive nanny car.”

Bai Yang didn't know if he was asking Zhang Xiaoxin, or he was talking to himself, "If Wu Shoucai posted it by himself, what would make him avoid his parents and friends and go to relax?" Based on his current understanding of people like Wu Shoucai , Wu Shoucai is by no means a person who can travel alone, feel the natural scenery, and cultivate his sentiments.

The car did not drive to the county bureau, but returned to Zhang Xiaoxin's house. He got out of the car and said, "Wait for me for a while, I will say a few words to her, and I will be right back."

Bai Yang replied generously: "You do what you want."

The lights on the third floor were not on, and Zhang Xiaoxin had already left and returned.

There was a trace of indescribable feeling in Bai Yang's heart, whether it was worry or secret joy, he asked as calmly as possible: "Your ex-girlfriend didn't come?"

"Come and leave again." Zhang Xiaoxin looked at the bunch of keys in his hand. It was placed under the carpet in front of the house, which was the tacit understanding of the three of them in the "Three Gods Organization".

Zhang Xiaoxin sat next to him in a daze, he didn't start the car for a long time, and Bai Yang didn't bother him, waiting for him to recover.

"She's not my ex-girlfriend, she's my junior high school classmate, and my best friend." Just when Bai Yang thought they would need to get along for a while before they could have a chance to talk, the other party actually took the initiative to explain.

Zhang Xiaoxin didn't have Bai Yang's thoughts, he just couldn't control the sadness in his heart, and there happened to be someone next to him, and this person happened to bump into Hu Lai with him.

He took two cans of beer from the trunk and threw one of them to Bai Yang: "Drink one can before leaving."

Hearing that it wasn't his ex-girlfriend, Bai Yang breathed a sigh of relief, opened the can and asked deliberately, "But that ring...?"

"I handed it over to her for someone else." It's been a long time since I confide in someone, and I don't know where to start, so let's talk about what comes to mind.

"When I was in junior high school... I was not understood." Zhang Xiaoxin thought about how to make it easier for the other party to understand: "Of course it is the same now, but at that time I didn't know how to hide myself, so I didn't get along well with my classmates. , until the second day of junior high school, I met Hu Lai and Guo Fei."

"They're like me, they're not very accepted."

Bai Yang put down the beer can: "So the three of you have become good friends." Judging from Zhang Xiaoxin's description, it's not without reason that he would immediately think of "school violence" when analyzing the case.

"Well, the three of us talked about everything, and agreed to go to the same high school and the same university in the future. At that time, the three of us had a name called 'Three Gods Organization'. Guess what it means?" Zhang Xiaoxin There was a pure light in his eyes, as if he had returned to that time.

It's completely different from the serious him in the morning meeting.

However, compared to the "cold and ruthless" "Team Zhang", Bai Yang preferred this childish Zhang Xiaoxin, and he sat on the hood with Zhang Xiaoxin: "Three gods?"

After pondering for a moment, Bai Yang doubtfully guessed: "Three psychopaths?" Then Zhang Xiaoxin told him with an unbelievable expression that he guessed right!

"You are really smart!"

As if it was some great compliment, Bai Yang's heart jumped up, but the happy state of mind didn't last long.

"But, I..." Thinking of what happened later, Zhang Xiaoxin felt depressed for a moment, his hand holding the soda can trembled slightly: "At the end of the second year of junior high, my parents... died, and I changed schools, so I lost contact with them."

Although Zhang Xiaoxin deliberately weakened the narrative in that paragraph, no one will ignore the important point. Bai Yang couldn't digest this message for a long time: Zhang Xiaoxin has no one in his family because he is the only one left alive in the whole family.

Compassion and heartbeat prompted him to stand up, gently hugged Zhang Xiaoxin, and silently patted him on the back a few times.

In fact, this action is a bit out of bounds.

God knows they've only known each other for a day!

In the heart-to-heart atmosphere, Zhang Xiaoxin calmly accepted the comforting hug from his brother, "It's long gone."

"...Actually, if you want to be filial to your parents, my parents can borrow it from you." Bai Yang's gag dilutes the gloom at the moment, Zhang Xiaoxin punches him with a smile, and continues Jiang's story about Hu Lai.

"Until I graduated from the police academy and was about to work in the city bureau. One day, I learned of Guo Fei's death, and then I found Guo Fei's belongings, and according to his wishes, I sent the ring to Hu Lai. inside."

Bai Yang immediately noticed the contradiction in his words. If Zhang Xiaoxin and Guo Fei had never been in touch, how could he know the other party's last wish?But he changed his mind, maybe Zhang Xiaoxin found a clue in Guo Fei's relics.

"Hu Lai changed her contact information and address after accepting the ring, and I never found her again. I didn't expect..." I didn't expect to bump into her in a dark alley...

"Then what are you going to do now?"

"Investigate the case first, let's talk about the rest..." Zhang Xiaoxin was much more sober after being tainted with alcohol. He sat back in the car, hit the gas pedal with his foot, and returned to the "Team Zhang".

Bai Yang remembered a passage I read a long time ago: If everything a person does is not "handsome" or "beautiful" in your eyes, but "cute", then your "cuteness" of this person is called For liking.

When the situation was applied to him, it became "charismatic". Before he knew it, every movement of Zhang Xiaoxin became a landscape in his eyes. He was fascinated by this kind of slowly opening a book and exploring the twists and turns. Feel.

They thought that after verifying the identity of the ninth person, they would be able to follow the clues and quickly find the murderer, but they received an unexpected report after returning to the police station.

The case, which was thought to be turning around, became complicated and confusing again.