Chapter 12
The moment Zhang Liangwei saw Liu Huaixin's body, he was both afraid and panicked. His mind was confused, but a vague line was emerging.
He remembered the anonymous letter. $
It was three months after Zhang Xiyu's death. On a hot summer night, Zhang Liangwei pushed open the door and went out to buy beer. His wife was sleeping, and the house was so dead and silent that it was unbearable to stay there.
There was an envelope lying on the floor at the door, the most common yellow envelope, with "To Zhang Xiyu's father" written on it.
He picked it up and opened it, and his pupils suddenly shrank.
There are only two lines of black pen writing on the white A4 paper:
【Zhang Xiyu’s father:
Zhang Xiyu committed suicide for love. She was with an adult, and that man let her down. 】
Zhang Liangwei did not hand the letter to the police.
He often deals with various disputes on construction sites and knows some laws. Zhang Xiyu's body had been cremated long ago, and no autopsy was performed before his death in accordance with his parents' wishes. The police had already closed the case, and coupled with the school's obvious determination to cover up the case, he felt that it was pointless to hand it in. And what if we find that man? The daughter committed suicide by jumping off the building. The surveillance camera clearly recorded that she was the only one who went upstairs. The man could have denied it flatly. What can be done about him?
At that time, Zhang Liangwei, who had just lost his daughter, was still in a state of emotional confusion and decided to find the man and take revenge on himself.
Almost naturally, he thought that "adult" was the male teacher in the school. First, the schedule in high school is very tight, and his daughter has few opportunities to come into contact with other adult men; second, he knows that No. 29 Middle School has recruited a number of masters and doctoral students from universities in recent years, and they are all very young. Besides, aren’t there enough such beastly things happening in the news and on TV?
Zhang Liangwei turned his attention to all the young male teachers in the high school who might have close contact with his daughter, including Fang Chenyu and Liu Huaixin. He would go to the school's residential area and to the parents' quarters to inquire about their news, deliberately contact them, and even secretly followed them several times, but to no avail. They all look so normal, busy with work every day, and without any scandals with female students.
Gradually, Zhang Liangwei began to suspect that the letter might just be a prank.
The image of his dead daughter in this father's mind automatically becomes more beautiful day by day as time goes by. He forgot all the bad things about his daughter that once made him grit his teeth, and only remembered her beauty, intelligence and kindness. He even clearly remembered what his daughter looked like when she was one or two years old, what a cute little girl. He thought that since she was born, the couple had treated her as a treasure in the world. Why, as she grew up, all they cared about was her grades, respectability and future, and forgot that the real treasure was herself?
So he thought, how could such a good daughter do such a thing? This must be slander!
It was not until last night when Zhang Liangwei received the text message from Liu Huaixin that he remembered the anonymous letter he had thrown into the corner of the drawer.
At Liu Huaixin's house, he looked at the corpse in a daze. He really wanted to wake up this "adult" and ask him, "My daughter, what on earth did you go through to become so desperate as to jump off a tall building?"
Why, why do we adults push a child to a desperate situation?
——
Fang Kai sent a scanned copy of the anonymous letter to the group.
Li Qingyao thought for a moment and said, "So this explains Zhang Liangwei's unusual reaction when the body was found yesterday. Liu Huaixin was one of his suspects, and he sent him that text message. He felt hatred and suspicion in his heart, so when he saw the body, he didn't panic like an ordinary person."
Chen Pu: “Yes.”
Li Qingyao recalled last night at the scene when both of them looked at Zhang Liangwei at the same time and they stared at each other in a tacit understanding.
She raised an eyebrow at him.
But Chen Pu seemed to have forgotten about it and was indifferent to her hint. He leaned back in his chair and said in a businesslike manner, "Go find Zhou Cen and ask for a few copies of the handwriting. We'll take a look first and then submit them to the bureau for appraisal."
"Whose handwriting do you want?"
Chen Pu raised his eyelids, clenched his left fist, and casually pressed the knuckles of his left hand with his right thumb and index finger, making "crack", "crack", "crack" sounds. He asked, "What do you think?"
Li Qingyao stared blankly for a few seconds before answering, "Of course it's the one among the classmates who is closest to Zhang Xiyu and knows her best."
"Why don't you go quickly?" According to the information provided by Zhou Cen and Fang Chenyu, there were three girls in the class who were close to Zhang Xiyu, and the boys were all on average. Two or three of them pursued her, but she refused to any of them.
But when Li Qingyao compared the composition books of the three girls, he could tell at a glance that the anonymous letter was not written by the same person. Both of them were stunned. Chen Pu said, "Looks like we need to move all the composition books of the class here."
After they spent an hour in the conference room and compared the handwriting of everyone in Class 8 where Zhang Xiyu was, even though they were not handwriting identification experts, they could tell that the handwriting of the anonymous letter was not among them.
Now the clue is broken again.
A larger and more professional handwriting comparison will take longer. Chen Pu decided to call Zhang Xiyu's good friends over to have a chat and see what he could find out.
He said to Li Qingyao, "You will be the main questioner later, is that okay? I'll be sitting in the corner, so there's no need to be silent. Female students are timid and will be scared when they see me. Just use your best attitude of being a caring little sister and try to dig out as much information as possible."
Li Qingyao glanced at his face. His facial features were actually handsome. His eyebrows were eyebrows, his jaw was a good jaw, and his skin color was not dark. But he has a tall frame, is thin, and is always dressed in gray, white and black. Coupled with his stern expression and his identity as a criminal policeman, he would indeed scare children at first glance.
but……
Li Qingyao: "What do you mean by 'the intimate little sister look that I am best at'? Isn't that what I am?"
Chen Pu pretended not to hear it. He quickly put away his pen and notebook and walked to an inconspicuous corner to sit down.
Li Qingyao laughed: "If you have the guts, explain it clearly!"
Chen Pu held up the black leather notebook to cover his face.
The first person I met was Xu Yinzi, a cute girl with a round face and medium height. At first, when she heard Zhou Cen say that the police wanted to talk to her, she was quite nervous. But when she saw Li Qingyao, a pretty girl with a gentle expression and friendly tone, after chatting for a few words, she completely forgot that she was talking to a policeman, and answered whatever was asked, very cheerfully.
"In love?" Xu Yinzi frowned and thought for a while, "Probably not? I haven't heard that Xiyu was close to any boy at that time. In fact, I just lived close to her, and we sat in front and behind each other. Sometimes we went to school together and talked more, but we were not good friends. She didn't tell me much about anything, but I think she would tell Li Ziyan. They were best friends."
"What was wrong with her before the accident?" Xu Yinzi tried to recall, her expression darkening. "I didn't expect her to jump off the building. During that period, I remember that she improved by 70 or 80 places in the grade in both the final and midterm exams. She even won the 'Best Improvement Award' and was awarded 1,000 yuan. I used her as a goal and reflected on myself to study hard. Maybe she behaved like that... because of too much pressure from studying. There were a few times when I asked her out after school, but she was reluctant to go home. I knew her father always beat her. By the way, during that period, she was actually very unhappy. She was always in a bad mood and her attention was distracted in class."
The second girl she met was Liu Yujia, a girl with thin eyebrows and eyes, wearing a trendy T-shirt under her school uniform. Her statement was completely different from Xu Yinzi's: "Zhang Xiyu is in love."
Li Qingyao: "How did you know? Not many people know about this."
Liu Yujia touched her nose and said, "I observed it. She bought a new brand-name cell phone during that period, which cost at least five or six thousand yuan. She also bought a lot of new skirts and clothes, all brand-name, which cost four or five hundred yuan each even with discounts. Her parents couldn't have bought these for her. I once asked her if she had a rich boyfriend. She just smiled and said nothing."
"Then do you know who that person is?"
Liu Yujia shook her head: "I asked her, but she wouldn't tell me. But she's definitely not a boy from our school."
"Why?"
"Because any gossip in school can't escape my eyes."
The last person I met was Zhang Xiyu’s desk mate, who was recognized by everyone as her best friend during her lifetime: Li Ziyan.
Li Qingyao first covered up part of the text in the anonymous letter and showed it to Li Ziyan. Li Ziyan shook her head, indicating that this was not her handwriting and she couldn't recognize whose handwriting it was.
When talking about Zhang Xiyu, Li Ziyan looked dazed and her eyes gradually turned red.
"Zhang Xiyu never had a boyfriend before. That should be her first love. I know who that person is."
Li Qingyao and Chen Pu were delighted at the same time: "Who is it?"
"He was a boy from the Sports University next door, his family was very rich. They must have been together a few months before Zhang Xiyu's death. One time I was on my way to a cram school, and I ran into them on the way..."
"What are you going to do?"
Li Ziyan's tears flowed down, but she didn't know why she was crying. She didn't want to say it, but the policewoman in front of her was so gentle and kind that she couldn't help but feel that no matter what it was, telling her would be right and would be good for Zhang Xiyu.
"I followed them secretly...and saw them check into a hotel. Later, when I asked Zhang Xiyu, she admitted that she had a boyfriend. She also told me not to tell anyone, not even my friends, or she would end our relationship."
Li Qingyao turned the pen between his fingers three times, and suddenly turned back and glanced at Chen Pu. Chen Pu had been keeping his head down, taking notes, but he looked up as if he had realized something and met her gaze.
She looked at Chen Pu and asked: Are male college students considered “adults”?
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