Chapter 27

Tang Ruxin, who was finally discharged from the hospital, completely forgot the "balance payment" promised by Yu Lei. The only thing left in her mind was that Tong Jiayu was included in the suspect investigation list.

She suppressed her shock at seeing Yu Lei's screenshot, as Song Mu and Ding Xinqiao were unaware of her personal relationship with Tong Jiayu. Yu Lei had only just encountered Tong Jiayu visiting her in the hospital, and likely had no idea of ​​their true relationship.

But not mentioning her at all would seem deliberate, especially with Yu Lei's gaze fixed on her like a searchlight. She could only reply calmly, "Oh, her. I know her. It shouldn't be her. She's quite a cute girl."

Tang Ruxin didn't know whether she had fooled him. Although Yu Lei stared at her with an unclear expression, he didn't ask any more questions.

After two days of careful consideration, Tang Ruxin painfully realized that it was not surprising that Tong Jiayu was included in the investigation. If she were investigating this case, she would also investigate Tong Jiayu.

Liu Dong died in the area under the jurisdiction of Tong Jiayu's unit, and Tong Jiayu happened to be at work when the incident occurred; that night, she and Yu Lei were locked in the well, and Tong Jiayu was also at work. She happened to go to the toilet during that time, and everyone else was at their posts. Among the twelve people on duty, she was the only one who did not have an alibi; Tong Jiayu had the conditions to come into contact with the heating furnace fan grease, and she really did not know about the unit where Chen Junan was, and she was not even familiar with the unit under her own jurisdiction.

The three screening criteria that Tang Ruxin listed for Song Mu could all fit Tong Jiayu.

Each independent screening condition seems to have a wide range, but when these ranges are intersected, there are not many people who can still stand at the intersection.

——At present, there is only Tong Jiayu.

The conclusions drawn from rational analysis are often difficult to accept emotionally. Her heart was filled with doubt and distress, but even so, Tang Ruxin did not confront Tong Jiayu, even though she was thinking about it frantically.

She was afraid that she would be exposed when facing Tong Jiayu, so she simply went to live in the office on the first day of her discharge from the hospital.

Song Mu, who was about to leave work, was so shocked that his eyes almost popped out of his head. What did it mean to be dedicated to his job? He was far from it. But he really didn't want to be so dedicated, so he stammered and said that he wanted to leave work.

Tang Ruxin glanced at her phone in confusion and said, "It's past nine o'clock. What are you going to do if you don't get off work? I only have one bed here."

Song Mu ran away with a red face.

After bullying Song Mu, Tang Ruxin didn't want to do anything. She lay on the bed for a while, her mind in a mess, unable to calm down. Sometimes she told herself that Tong Jiayu had no motive and it couldn't be her. But then she thought that after screening so many conditions, only Tong Jiayu was left. This must not be a coincidence.

Tang Ruxin sat up and looked at the night scene outside the window, and suddenly felt like drinking.

She could hold her liquor well, never getting drunk easily. Even if she did, Tong Jiayu was by her side, making even being drunk a pleasure. Now she wanted to drink, but she couldn't ask Tong Jiayu to accompany her. If she let out some drunken rant that revealed Yu Lei's secrets, he would definitely kick her out of the investigation team, and then she would get no information at all.

Tang Ruxin jumped up, put on her down jacket and ran out. Why didn't she even dare to drink without Tong Jiayu?

Driven by this irrational emotion, Tang Ruxin went to the bar and ordered a lot of drinks, trying almost every kind of wine. Although she only ordered one glass of each, the variety was enough, and it was only a matter of time before she got drunk.

She hadn't intended to leave the bar awake in the first place, but she'd gotten drunk just to prove she wasn't as drunk as Tong Jiayu. But she still had to plan a backup plan; safety came first. So before drinking, Tang Ruxin wrote Song Mu's phone number down for the bartender, telling him to call if she got drunk.

The bartender had never seen anyone so rationally plan their after-drinking activities. He checked the number to see if it had enough digits, so he took the note and put it on the bar. However, the bartender had to leave work early due to something urgent, and in his hasty departure, he forgot to hand over the number.

The bar closes at two in the morning, and it is now one fifty.

The bartender, watching Tang Ruxin, slumped over the bar, drunk and sound asleep, could only pinch her fingers to unlock her phone and look through her address book to see if there were any parents or siblings she could contact. Tang Ruxin's address book didn't have a single special contact, just a few hundred standard names and another few hundred with company departments.

The substitute bartender looked at the address book and felt more sympathy for the drunk woman in front of him. He felt that she had no relatives or friends.

The address book was of little use, so the substitute bartender opened the call logs on his phone, and now he had a target.

Half an hour later, Yu Lei wandered into the bar, cigarette in hand, his face sullen. Most people, hearing the phone ring in the middle of the night, would at most curse. But for a police officer, a midnight ring usually signified a murder. In that instant, his heart rate, which had been in his deep sleep for over sixty, shot up to a hundred and thirty, and his watch even went off.

The result is that asking him to pick up a drunk guy would not make anyone look good.

"Hello, please show us your ID card. We need to register here." The bartender said with a smile.

Yu Lei glared at him with a sour look, stubbed out his cigarette in the ashtray on the bar, and said, "Next time this happens, please call the police directly. Who can guarantee that the one who calls the most is a good person?"

After saying that, I realized that calling him was the same as calling the police.

Yu Lei sighed helplessly and took out his police ID and tossed it to the bartender. The bartender took it, looked at it, and immediately handed it back to him with both hands. "Sorry, officer, I'll definitely do it next time. Okay?"

After saying that, he realized why this time he didn't call the police. Even though it was an accident, it was still the police who came.

Yu Lei put his ID away, picked up a down jacket, and helped Tang Ruxin put it on. Then he lifted her arm and placed it on her shoulder, his other arm around her waist, lifting her up completely. It was then that he noticed that Tang Ruxin was quite tall, nearly 1.7 meters tall. She had narrow shoulders, a slender waist, and long legs. While others measured by height, she could be measured by length.

Amused by his own thoughts, Yu Lei laughed out loud as he held her in his arms and walked towards the bar door.

As if awakened by the low laughter that was so close to her, Tang Ruxin slowly opened her eyes. Before she could see who was laughing, a strong feeling of nausea suddenly rushed out from her stomach and rose up her throat.

She pushed away the person who was hugging her, turned around, squatted on the ground and vomited.

Yu Lei immediately took two steps back, glad that he had taken her out of the bar, and even more glad that she had a good drinking habit and only vomited on herself instead of others when she was drunk.

After she finished vomiting several times, Yu Lei went forward to help her stand up - okay, her down jacket was ruined.

"Awake?" Yu Lei asked, waving his hand in front of her eyes.

Tang Ruxin's cheeks flushed and her eyes widened. She looked at him for a while, then chuckled and pointed at his nose and said,

"Door God."

Yu Lei's face fell, and even when drunk he still didn't forget to tease his name. He raised his hand, took off Tang Ruxin's vomit-stained down jacket and stuffed it into the back seat of the car. He then stuffed Tang Ruxin into the passenger seat and helped her fasten her seat belt.

"Drink some water." Tang Ruxin murmured as she looked at him with a dazed look in her eyes.

"Are you drunk or not? Your request is quite concise and to the point." While driving, Yu Lei reached out from behind the passenger seat and took out a bottle of water, unscrewed it and handed it to her.

Tang Ruxin tilted her head back and took two gulps, rinsed out the taste of vomit from her mouth, opened the car window and spit it out.

"Hey, public morality?" Yu Lei shouted in vain before he could stop him.

Tang Ruxin let out a long sigh, as if she finally felt a little better. Then she tilted her head and fell asleep, without even covering the bottle of mineral water in her hand, and the water gurgled all over her body.

Yu Lei quickly reached out and grabbed the bottle, screwed the lid on it, and threw it into the back seat. "Oh, I'm really impressed."

You can take off your down jacket when it gets dirty, but can you also take off your shirt?!

——Forget it, just let it get wet, it won’t affect the drunkard’s sleep.

At this moment, Yu Lei suddenly remembered that he didn't know her address.

He pulled the car over to the side of the road, debating whether to wake her up and ask her or call the police to check. He would be too embarrassed to fight back if he got beaten up later if he asked them to check something like this at this hour.

"Where do you live?" Yu Lei pushed Tang Ruxin's shoulder.

People who are disturbed while sleeping will not be in a good mood. Tang Ruxin frowned and hummed, ignoring him.

Yu Lei thought for a moment, then pulled out her phone and unlocked it with her finger. Then he opened the online shopping app to check the delivery address. After a moment, he put the phone down with a blank expression.

That's a lot of addresses! Besides the company, there's also the city, the suburbs, and even a horse ranch. How come she has properties in so many places?

"Wake up, where do you live?" Yu Lei pushed Tang Ruxin again.

This time, Tang Ruxin got angry and yelled at him with her eyes closed:

"Live in your house!"

Yu Lei was stunned, then turned around and gripped the steering wheel expressionlessly.

——It seems that it is not impossible.