"This place..." Jiang Qiu was still sitting in the car.
He just looked up from his phone, hesitated for a moment, and followed Liang An out of the car.
"Every time you react so indifferently, it makes me wonder if I kidnapped you, and you still get caught without mercy."
Liang An looked back while walking to prevent the people behind him from getting lost while looking around.
Jiang Qiu's expression was a little strange.
Walking to the door of the building, Liang An confirmed the room number he had written down and pressed the numbers on the communication device next to the door.
"I asked the teacher to list a few - a list of girls who were particularly interested in Li Liejun. I called them and asked them, and I found something very strange."
He opened the door as he spoke - it seemed that he had made an appointment in advance, the door opened quickly, and the communication device was not connected, but was directly hung up - the house owner did not seem to want to communicate too much.
"You don't answer me and make me feel like I'm talking to myself."
"Huh?" Jiang Qiu raised his head.
"There are five people in total, which is really a lot. Now those female students are adults, four are working, and one is still studying for further study - studying medicine, you know. I asked them some questions about Li Liejun , most of them are not shy, but they have one obvious thing in common."
Seeing Liang An looking at him again, Jiang Qiu hesitated for a moment, but still satisfied his desire to get a reply: "...you tell me."
Liang An was satisfied and continued: "When I asked them if they knew whether Li Liejun had a girlfriend at that time, they all answered me unanimously and affirmatively, no."
"If it is a single phenomenon, this is not outrageous. But the problem is that everyone reacts like this, which is very interesting - in a sense, these five people are the best in this class. People who pay attention to Li Liejun. Thanks to the teacher who has his own puppy love alarm but is quite tolerant, we can know about their existence.
It stands to reason that even though they observed that Li Liejun had never had much contact with the opposite sex, they concluded that he did not have puppy love. But after such a long time, even the most certain things will gradually become blurred, unless there is something that makes a deep impression on them, so that they can still blurt out this conclusion in an instant. This is even a common phenomenon. "
"And this may be our breaking point." As he said that, he walked to the door of the security door and knocked.
The door was open, but the anti-theft lock chain was still attached inside. Liang An didn't look too surprised. He took out his ID and handed it through the door, "Teacher Wang, I called you before."
Jiang Qiu glanced at him when he heard this title, but received a cryptic look from Liang An.
The anti-theft lock rang, the door opened, and the two of them were invited into the house.
The woman who opened the door was dressed very neatly, wearing a white shirt and three-quarter length blue jeans - not winter wear, it seemed like she just changed her outfit casually at home to receive outsiders.
Her straight hair just passed her ears. Although it was not tied or fixed with hairpins, it was neatly repaired. Although she had seen Liang An's ID, she was still a little uncomfortable and couldn't help but rub the hem of her clothes while sitting opposite the two of them.
"The question you asked... I also talked about it on the phone." She seemed to be quite unfocused and her eyes were wandering. She didn't look like a teacher whose profession requires facing dozens of students. .
"Don't worry, we just want to confirm some details." Liang An leaned forward slightly, his eyes were quite sincere, "For example, that classmate Li Liejun, why do you think he has not had an affair with the opposite sex."
Teacher Wang seemed to have thought that he would say this, and took a breath, as if he was ready to say what he wanted to say, but also frowned, "At that time, Li Liejun was a relatively outgoing boy. He played basketball, had good skills, and was handsome. ——This should be the reason why he is really popular.
He is quite active and very lively in front of everyone, but his attitude towards girls, how should I put it - very strange, like keeping a respectful distance. Once he meets, he will say hello, but his attitude is quite distant, it feels like it is just a habit. . This is true even for classmates in the same classroom. It's hard for me to imagine that someone like him would...how to put it, have any ambiguous relationship. "
"Then why haven't you considered that his alienation is actually just to avoid suspicion?"
"It's not that there is nothing..." Teacher Wang hesitated, "But his attitude is indeed too determined. We..."
She seemed to have noticed something, and raised her head in panic.
Liang An seemed to feel nothing. He raised the corners of his mouth and made a kind smile, indicating for her to continue.
It's probably not a coincidence that everyone can agree on the same thing.
Many times, even if the exact same facts are presented to different people, they can interpret different results. And a conclusion that is absolute in nature in cognition cannot be casually produced by ordinary interactions between classmates. This can only lead to one reason.
"Wang Simo, Teacher Wang. These things are actually nothing. They are just children's nonsense. It is not a big deal." Liang An waved his hand and threw the ID he had just brought back into his pocket into Jiang Qiu's hand.
If the fake certificate was given casually as if it was a joke, Jiang Qiu was startled, and then he continued to say calmly: "The important thing is that this matter may have a lot to do with our case. .”
The scene was silent for a while. It was clear that the woman was having a mental struggle.
"At that time..." Teacher Wang, or Wang Simo, began to nervously rub the hem of his clothes again, but he was obviously shaken and raised his head as if he had the courage to say, "There are several of us, and we can't be said to be love rivals. ...Just, they all pay more attention to his movements. It’s that kind of..."
Liang An nodded and waited for her to continue.
"It's actually quite strange now that I think about it." She seemed to have put down a stone in her heart and smoothed her hair beside her ears. Her fingers trembled slightly and she smiled bitterly, "It's like the kind of fan support that children nowadays have to chase stars. Yes, and it feels like I'm invading other people's privacy - every time I worry about why those kids are so obsessed with the handsome guy on the screen, I always think of myself who did it even worse... and those classmates.
We all know each other's concerns and even communicate with each other - curious about what he usually does, and even... even sometimes follow him and share what we see - but we are not aware of our own behavior. When I see my students now, I always wonder if they would do this too, and I have even paid special attention to them to see if they would do such an excessive thing. But no.
I still have an impression of what I experienced during that period, and I even feel that I no longer looked like myself at that time. Every time I think about it... every time I think about something like this, I think, Oh my God, who is that? I really... really don't want to think about this. "
Liang An looked at her with a look of genuine confusion.
She does still harbor a grudge against her former self, a pathological group behavior.
"Can you tell me, who are the 'you' you are talking about?" Liang An was already prepared and took out a copy of the student roster that he got from his previous class teacher, as well as a handy signing pen.
Wang Simo took over the roster.
She was a teacher, so she was quite familiar with this kind of list. She looked up and down a few times, checked a few names, and then stopped.
"Wait a minute, officer, there's another one," she murmured.
Liang An slowly stood up.
Back outside, time has not passed long.
"Meng Shanshan." Liang An sat in the driver's seat, with the back of the seat halfway down, feeling a little resting inside. "Do you know what special thing I discovered?"
Jiang Qiu shook his head.
"She was Li Liejun's classmate in the next class in high school. Like Wang Simo, she had this kind of collective attention for Li Liejun. Of course, she should be the special one. After graduating from high school, after their class graduation dinner, she got drunk I accidentally drowned in the community's landscape fountain on the way home." Even Liang An raised his eyebrows after reading the last four words of the place name.
"Drown?" Jiang Qiu turned his head and finally saw some doubts.
"The autopsy showed no abnormalities. A large amount of alcohol was detected in her body. If she happened to fall into the fountain on the way, she was unconscious due to excessive drunkenness, and eventually drowned while completely losing consciousness. It is also a reasonable answer.
She was indeed too drunk. But it is worth mentioning that her classmates were questioned about this incident at the time, especially those who organized the dinner. The man was frightened by the news and took a confession. He said that Meng Shanshan left by herself that night. Although some classmates asked if they wanted to see her off, she said no, someone would pick her up.
She couldn't tell that she was so drunk at the time, and the people present were only half-grown children, so they didn't think carefully, so she was allowed to leave alone. But many people saw that she did walk alone. "
"So, she...is the key?"
"If I knew this, then this matter would definitely not end so hastily." Liang An spread his hands, "The case nine years ago, I was also studying at that time."
He looked through the list given by Wang Simo again and was amazed.
"Meng Shanshan, she is the only child in this group who belongs to another class. But the strange thing is that none of them seemed to feel anything strange about this fact at the time. She is an outlier."
"Why did you say that?" Jiang Qiu was a little confused.
"Because she does have an extraordinary life experience. Guess who I saw in her relevant information?"
Jiang Qiu was annoyed by his betrayal and turned around to look out the window.
Liang An couldn't get any feedback and sighed regretfully.
"Meng Shanshan's father, Meng Chaoyang, was the murderer of Chen Feng, Chen Zerui's biological father. At the same time, Meng Chaoyang was also Chen Feng's subordinate, and the conflict between the two is also very intriguing - do you want to listen to it?"
Jiang Qiu turned around and couldn't help but look a little relaxed.
"Just like you said..."
"The case is connected. We do appear to have found a key player."
