Chapter 41 Chapter 41 The Third Drawing

Qiao Zhizhi was gesticulating with Pei Qing: "...I was saying, why didn't Zhan Shengguang marry Lian Jiao? It turns out that she wasn't the one he liked in the first place. Lian Jiao still wants to marry Zhan Shengguang. She's more daring than me. Zhan Shengguang must be thinking about how to dump this woman... She's not as good as me..."

Pei Qing called a halt urgently. Qiao Zhizhi's words were mixed with personal feelings. She and Lian Jiao were in a relationship that allowed them to go to the police station together. Pei Qing did not want to listen to her subjective speculation.

Pei Qing asked her directly: "What was the name of the woman that Zhan Shengguang was chasing after?"

Qiao Zhizhi was stopped, but she hadn't said enough. Feeling it was a pity, she answered Pei Qing's question: "Che Wanting. There are four people in her dormitory. The one who does business with her is called Fu Chen, who is not as pretty as her. The one who borrowed money from her because her son was sick is called Lu Nian, who now works in a private company. I heard that if her son hadn't been sick, his life would have been better than ours. It's just that he is so unlucky. His illness dragged down the whole family, and they had to borrow money everywhere.

My sisters said that Che Wanting was the most beautiful one among them. Zhan Shengguang chased her for a long time before catching up with her. What a beauty! I have a photo, take a look! "

Pei Qing looked at the photos on her phone. Qiao Zhizhi was very gossipy and she must have gotten a group photo from somewhere.

Qiao Zhizhi pointed at the photo and showed it to Pei Qing: "Rich sister, look, the one on the right is Lu Nian, she looks like a good woman, no wonder she got married so early, the one in the middle is their college counselor, and the one on the left is Che Wanting, she is so beautiful!"

Pei Qing took a look and found that Che Wanting was different from Lian Jiao in beauty. Her facial features were richly painted and had just the right amount of three-dimensionality. She was beautiful in a jewel-like way. She looked very heroic, and her eyes added a bit of charm.

Pei Qing asked Qiao Zhizhi to send the photos to her.

Qiao Zhizhi was dissatisfied: "Rich sister, you really love beautiful women."

Pei Qing: "Everyone loves beauty. What's wrong with me looking at her a few more times? I heard Lian Jiao say that they are going to have a class reunion soon. Will Che Wanting go?"

Qiao Zhizhi: "I don't know. My sister and they are from the same school, but not in the same class. How would I know?"

Pei Qing began to chase people away: "You can leave now."

Qiao Zhizhi didn't want to leave yet: "Are you going to Lian Jiao's class reunion? I want to go too. I also want to see what Che Wanting looks like!"

Pei Qing: "What are you looking at?"

Qiao Zhizhi: "I'm going to see the beauty! My sisters told me that there were a lot of people chasing after Che Wanting at that time, which made people jealous."

Pei Qing: "I'm going with Lian Jiao, how can I take you with me? Okay, I have something else to do, go and have fun by yourself!"

Qiao Zhizhi watched her walk out with her schoolbag on her back. The schoolbag was just an ordinary waterproof one and not a brand name one.

She thought to herself, this rich sister lives a very simple life.

If you don’t want to take her, then don’t take her. It’s okay. She will figure it out on her own.

She must see what Che Wanting looks like.

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Qiao Zhizhi went to find Zhan Shengguang. She acted coquettishly in front of him for half an hour, and explained to him with both emotion and reason that she just wanted to see how beautiful the woman Zhan Shengguang had pursued was.

Qiao Zhizhi said as she held her heart and swore: "I really mean no harm, Sheng Guang, take me to see it, I'm not Lian Jiao, I won't cause you any trouble."

Zhan Shengguang was stunned by what she said: "Che Wanting?"

Qiao Zhizhi nodded obediently. She took Zhan Shengguang's arm and said, "Shengguang, you know, I'm just too curious. I heard that Lian Jiao's class is going to have a reunion. You should go too. I want to go too."

Zhan Shengguang's eyes wandered.

Qiao Zhizhi coaxed him for a long time, and found that he was distracted, so she asked immediately: "Sheng Guang, you don't forget who Che Wanting is, do you?"

Zhan Shengguang retorted: “How could that be?”

Qiao Zhizhi asked doubtfully, "Is Che Wanting really that beautiful?"

Zhan Shengguang: "She is beautiful. There is no one prettier than her in the whole school."

Qiao Zhizhi: “Oh.”

Her "Oh" was so rhythmic that Zhan Shengguang would have reacted long ago in the past, but today he was still distracted.

There is a problem, a big problem.

The woman is so beautiful that it is normal for Zhan Shengguang to be impressed by her, but with this kind of look on his face, it seems that Zhan Shengguang is not forgetting his old love.

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Pei Qing returned home and Xu An was there too. With his kind of job, when there was a case, he was so busy that he had no time to sleep. When he was not busy, he still had time to eat three meals a day and go out for a midnight snack.

Xu An was not busy now. He asked Pei Qing, "How is the investigation going?"

Pei Qing threw his bag on the sofa and said, "It should be a problem with Lian Jiao's own circle of friends."

She pulled out the drawing and pointed at the marble tiles, then compared them with photos of the farm interior to make sure the tiles were the same.

"Tomorrow Lian Jiao and I will go to her classmates' reunion. We don't know who did it yet. Both of her roommates seem to have a grudge against her, and we can't rule out the possibility that there are other classmates who don't like her. You want to go with me? I'll call Liu Ji along."

Xu An agreed: "Sure, I'm not busy recently. Is Liu Ji back?"

Pei Qing: "I came back a long time ago. Uncle Liu said he has been playing for a year."

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At six o'clock in the evening, Li Muxu returned home. Pei Qing and Xu An were waiting at the table for him to come home for dinner.

At the dinner table, the three of them exchanged ideas about what they were busy with recently and deepened their relationship as brothers and sisters.

Pei Qing talked about the recent investigation and criticized Zhan Shengguang for being a bastard who did nothing, was fickle and had no sense of responsibility.

The women around him also love money. Money comes first and everything else comes second.

Xu An: "Well, he's still a little better than the man in my case who killed his wife to get insurance money."

Pei Qing: "Why are you still comparing yourself to the worst?"

Xu An: "There are too many bad people, how can we compare them? These people just eat too much and have sex all day long! If something goes wrong one day, we will be in trouble!"

Li Muxu was listening quietly. After hearing Xu An's words, he suddenly asked, "How do you know that Zhan Shengguang has never caused any trouble before?"

Xu An: "Has he ever killed someone before? Is there any evidence? Why didn't you call the police?"

Pei Qing looked at Li Muxu with burning eyes.

Li Muxu continued, "The Baisa family has been making good profits recently. Even if Zhan Shengguang has a promiscuous private life, it's not like no one would be willing to marry him. It's common for couples to live separately and have their own fun after marriage, but the Zhan family didn't do that. It's a bit unusual, so I went to check it out."

Pei Qing was anxious: "And then what?"

Li Muxu said slowly: "Five years ago, the Zhan family wanted to form an alliance with the Teng family, but it failed."

Xu An was anxious after hearing this and asked, "Brother, don't just say one word at a time, just say it all in one breath!"

Pei Qing nodded like a chick pecking at rice.

Li Muxu: "I asked someone to check. Zhan Shengguang's girlfriend had a miscarriage at the time, and he brought the aborted child to Teng Jingyi. Teng Jingyi was 19 years old at the time and was the youngest child in the Teng family. Later, the Teng family found a psychologist for Teng Jingyi, and the marriage failed."

Li Muxu spoke of the Zhan family's past in a nonchalant manner, but Pei Qing got goosebumps all over his body.

Pei Qing: "The aborted baby? How many months old? Has it formed?"

Li Muxu: "I heard it's done. It's an old story, the Zhan family kept it a secret, and gave Teng Jingyi a lot of apologies, all from the business world. They didn't see each other, so the matter didn't get made into a big deal."

Xu An was so shocked that his chopsticks dropped: "Zhan Shengguang, what a coward!"