Once again being mistaken for a couple with a child, Xu Man no longer felt embarrassed, but only helpless.
She no longer had the heart to explain, because Qin Shen next to her would resolve the misunderstanding in his own way anyway.
Sure enough, just like when he was upstairs, Qin Shen took out his police officer ID, opened it and placed it in front of the front desk clerk.
What happened next became a matter of course. The front desk took them to the reception room, and ten minutes later a little girl was brought in. It was Lu Yajun, who was in the same school and class as the deceased Zhang Xiaojuan.
During the morning meeting, Zhang Xiaojuan's photo was pasted on the glass plate. Xu Man took a closer look at her. She was a pretty girl. Perhaps because of her dance training, she had a slim figure and a good posture. She was completely different from the impression given by the name Zhang Xiaojuan.
The Lu Yajun in front of him was just the opposite. Of course, it wasn't that she was ugly. Her facial features were better looking than Zhang Xiaojuan's, but she was fatter, had a round face, and was a little short. When she stood there, her posture and temperament were far inferior to Zhang Xiaojuan's, which was somewhat inconsistent with her elegant name.
However, when Lu Yajun greeted them with a smile, Xu Man felt that her name was very good.
"Hello, police brother, hello, police sister." Lu Yajun's voice was very clear, and she had a generous smile on her face when she spoke. There were two small dimples on her cheeks, and with her round face, she looked like a likable child.
The front desk staff left after bringing the person in, leaving only Xu Man, Qin Shen and Lu Yajun in the reception room. Generally speaking, a child of this age would feel a little nervous when facing two policemen alone, but Lu Yajun remained very calm, as if he was facing two teachers.
What's more important is that she called them brother and sister instead of uncle and aunt. She was polite and sweet-spoken, which made Xu Man feel very happy.
"Please sit down." She smiled and motioned Lu Yajun to sit on the sofa opposite the coffee table, and pushed the unopened bottle of mineral water in front of her over.
Lu Yajun sat upright on the sofa opposite and said thank you politely, which made Xu Man's impression of her even better.
"Are you Lu Yajun?" Qin Shen didn't care. He asked a routine question with a blank expression, "A fifth-grade student at Yongqiao Central Primary School?"
Lu Yajun nodded.
"Do you know why we are looking for you?"
Lu Yajun thought for a moment and said, "Is there any news about Zhang Xiaojuan?"
"Do you know what happened to her?" Qin Shen asked calmly.
"I heard about it." Lu Yajun said, "She's missing, right? A policeman came to see me yesterday and asked me about her."
"What did they ask you?"
"I asked about my relationship with her, what she did on the afternoon of July 2 when she came to see me, what she was doing at school, how her final exam results were, and how she was feeling recently. That was all."
"How did you answer?"
"I said that she and I were friends. We weren't particularly close and didn't even go to the bathroom together, but we were just like normal girls. But since we were both in the same cram school and there were no other classmates, we would occasionally play together during breaks. On the afternoon of July 2nd... she came to me but didn't do anything, just chat with me and ask me how I was going to write my summer diary, and then-"
"Summer vacation diary?" Qin Shen interrupted her, "What summer vacation diary?"
"This is the summer homework assigned by our homeroom teacher," Lu Yajun explained. "We were asked to write a diary every day about what happened during the summer vacation and hand it in to her when school starts."
journal?
Xu Man's heart moved.
If Zhang Xiaojuan keeps a diary every day as instructed by her teacher, would we find some clues by checking her diary?
She quickly wrote the four words "Summer Vacation Diary" in her notebook.
Qin Shen obviously thought the same thing as her. He asked Lu Yajun: "What did you say about this assignment?"
Lu Yajun was stunned, probably because she didn't expect him to ask such detailed questions. After thinking for a while, she said, "I didn't say anything. I just complained that the homework assigned by the head teacher was too difficult. After all, I live the same life every day. I really don't know what to write. And even if I do write it, the head teacher won't read it. He will only look at the parents' signatures every day. So I think this homework is unreasonable."
"What did you write in your diary on July 2nd?"
“…”
Noticing Lu Yajun's silence, Xu Man raised her head and looked across.
Lu Yajun lowered her eyes, pursed her lips, and looked thoughtful.
Qin Shen next to him asked again: "What did you write?"
This time Xu Man saw clearly that a hint of nervousness flashed in Lu Yajun's eyes opposite her.
"I...I didn't write it."
The coffee table was made of glass. Through the transparent glass, she saw that Lu Yajun's hands on her knees were slightly clenched.
Qin Shen: "Why didn't you write it?"
Lu Yajun: "…Summer vacation is only a few days away, I want to play for half a month first. Anyway, there is nothing to write every day, so I can finish my diary when I finish my homework."
"is that so?"
Lu Yajun nodded softly.
Qin Shen seemed to accept Lu Yajun's explanation: "Go on."
"……say what?"
"Tell me how you answered the police's questions yesterday. How is Zhang Xiaojuan's grades in school? How is her mood recently?"
"Oh... Zhang Xiaojuan has very good grades in school. She is always in the top five or ten in every exam. She has been in a good mood recently. She told me before that she passed the seventh level of children's ballet. Among the students taught by her dance teacher, she is the youngest to pass this level. Her teacher also told her that she has a talent for learning dance. If she practices hard, she will definitely achieve great success in the future." Lu Yajun's words returned to the initial fluency and calmness. At the end, he asked, "Brother policeman, have you found Zhang Xiaojuan? Come to me, is there any new news?"
"Not yet." Qin Shen lied calmly, "It's just that some questions are unclear. Come over and ask again."
He then asked, "How are you doing in school? How are your grades?"
Lu Yajun was a little surprised: "Me? I'm fine, I'm always in the top three."
Xu Man paused while recording.
The first three are just okay? …It seems that she no longer understands the world of today’s elementary school students.
"Really?" Qin Shen only responded indifferently, "It seems that your grades are not bad."
Lu Yajun smiled, looking a little more relaxed than before. It was obvious that she felt a little proud of her achievements.
Next, Qin Shen asked some other questions, most of which were about Zhang Xiaojuan. Occasionally, he would ask about Lu Yajun's own situation, such as what her parents did for a living and what she had been doing these days. Lu Yajun answered them one by one. There were no problems, so Qin Shen let her leave.
Lu Yajun was also very polite when she left. She said goodbye to them, "Police brother" and "Police sister", and closed the door when she left.
Xu Man had a better impression of her. She thought that when Qin Shen asked her about her parents' occupations, she replied that her father worked in a bank and her mother was a kindergarten teacher, both of whom were in cultural fields. No wonder she raised such a polite child.
"Captain, this child is really polite." Thinking of this, she commented with a smile.
Qin Shen hummed without any recognition: "Go to the front desk and ask which students have a good relationship with Lu Yajun. Call them over. I have something to ask."
Xu Man was puzzled: "Aren't we investigating Zhang Xiaojuan's case? Why are we investigating Lu Yajun?"
"Lu Yajun was one of the last few people Zhang Xiaojuan had contact with before she died, and she is a person who needs to be investigated in depth." Qin Shen explained lazily, "The police in Siyang District didn't take it seriously before because it was just an ordinary missing case, but now it's different. It's become a murder case, and it's very likely that it was committed by a minor. Of course, we need to focus on the investigation."
Xu Man was secretly surprised: "Captain, are you doubting her?"
"I doubt every person of my age who had contact with Zhang Xiaojuan before she died." Qin Shen stretched out his hand to her, "Let me see the notebook."
Xu Man nodded, handed him the notebook with the questions and answers recorded in it, then stood up and left the meeting room, going to the front desk to do what Qin Shen had asked her to do.
After hearing the purpose of her visit, the front desk took her to the classroom where Lu Yajun took her class and called out the English tutor inside. After questioning the tutors, Xu Man identified three candidates and brought them back to the meeting room.
However, this conversation did not yield anything useful. The students in these cram schools were all from various schools. Although they had taken classes with Lu Yajun for half a year, they only knew her in the cram school and not in real life. They did not know many things about her. The only information they could provide was that Lu Yajun had a good temper and a cheerful personality, but sometimes could be a little stubborn, especially when it came to studying, and would argue angrily with them over the correct pronunciation of a word.
Friendly and cheerful, but sometimes stubborn. Xu Man quickly wrote down these three paragraphs in her notebook. When she put down her pen, Qin Shen had just finished asking questions. She closed the notebook, stood up and sent the three students back.
It was not yet time for the cram school class to end and the students were all in the classroom. Four students were called away one after another. It was impossible for the students not to have doubts. The door of the cram school classroom was a transparent glass door, so when Xu Man sent the three students back, many people looked up at her, with undisguised inquiry and curiosity in their eyes.
Lu Yajun also raised her head and her eyes met Xu Man's. She was stunned for a moment, then smiled.
Xu Man subconsciously smiled back at her, and a strange feeling arose in her heart.
According to the autopsy results, Zhang Xiaojuan was most likely killed by a minor. Could the murderer be Lu Yajun? If it were her, she would still be able to accept the police's questions and look at the police so calmly, then her mental ability must be extremely strong.
It shouldn't be her...
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