The police told him: "When we found him, he was face down with his head in the shallow water."
"We suspect that he fainted after losing his footing and falling."
"His face happened to be in the water and sand, making him unable to breathe, and he suffocated to death."
Yang Chenxi shook his head: "Impossible, impossible."
The police comforted: "We understand your feelings."
"Please express your condolences and be patient."
Yang Chenxi looked at his parents and younger brother and said to the police: "Isn't there surveillance?"
"We want to watch the surveillance. I want to see what happened to my brother."
The police regretfully told him: "The place where the incident happened happened to be a surveillance blind spot, and no complete video was captured."
Yang Chenxi said emotionally: "I don't care, we want the truth!"
"My brother couldn't have drowned. He must have been killed."
The final decision was made: to dissect the body and find the cause of death.
Yang Chenxi's parents firmly disagreed: "No, you can't let anyone touch your brother."
"He is already so pitiful that no one can use the knife on him anymore."
Zhou Zhimo came forward to explain, but the couple still couldn't accept it, so they had to give up and find another way.
On the other side, everyone carefully combed through Yang Chenlin's network of contacts, hoping to find useful clues.
The last call in Yang Chenlin's mobile phone address book was made to a girl, Tang Jiaojiao, at eight o'clock in the evening on the day of his death.
The police immediately summoned Tang Jiaojiao: "Do you know Yang Chenlin?"
Tang Jiaojiao's eyes averted and she whispered, "We know you."
Zhou Zhimo asked her: "What is your relationship?"
Tang Jiaojiao lowered her head and replied in a low voice: "Ordinary friends."
Zhou Zhimo continued to ask her: "Where were you after eight o'clock in the evening on the 20th?"
Tang Jiaojiao didn't dare to look up at the police: "At home."
Zhou Zhimo asked her again: "When was the last time you saw Yang Chenlin?"
Tang Jiaojiao kept wringing her fingers: "I forgot."
Zhou Zhimo reminded her: "Yang Chenlin passed away, and his last contact was you."
"Please answer truthfully what was said in your last phone call."
Tang Jiaojiao raised her head and looked at the policeman opposite in horror: "Is he dead?"
She lowered her head again: "Impossible, no way."
Zhou Zhimo saw Tang Jiaojiao's panicked expression: "Did you meet Yang Chenlin before he passed away?"
Tang Jiaojiao bit her lip and nodded slightly.
Zhou Zhimo asked her: "What happened between you two?"
Tang Jiaojiao glanced at Zhou Zhimo quickly, then lowered her head and whispered, "He called me that day."
"He asked me to go see him, but I didn't go..."
Zhou Zhimo opened the surveillance video on his tablet: "According to the surveillance video, you were at the embankment of the Luoqing River on the night of the incident."
"You are a serious suspect in the death of Yang Chenlin."
"It is best for you to tell clearly what happened and not hide anything."
Seeing Tang Jiaojiao lowering her head and saying nothing, Zhou Zhimo continued: "Yang Chenlin's family, after learning that the last person they called was you, also requested a thorough investigation of you."
"Now, tell us, what is your relationship with Yang Chenlin?"
"What happened between you that night?"
Zhou Zhimo waited, and Tang Jiaojiao finally spoke: "He called me that day and asked to meet me, but I refused."
"We have broken up and I don't want to be with him anymore."
Zhou Zhimo asked Tang Jiaojiao: "Finally, have you met?"
Tang Jiaojiao clasped her hands together and kept pinching her fingers: "It was too hot. I went to the river embankment to enjoy the cool air, and he came after me."
Tang Jiaojiao raised her head: "That day, I was with my boyfriend."
"When Yang Chenlin saw it, he became very excited. He came over and pulled me, and we had a few arguments."
"We talked about each other when he opened a barbecue restaurant."
"Later, business in the store failed. Three months ago, he wanted to go out to learn a trade, so we separated."
"After he came back, he called and pestered me. I already had a boyfriend and I didn't want to talk to him."
"When I pulled my boyfriend away, he said that if I didn't get along with him, he would jump out."
Tang Jiaojiao shed tears and her body trembled a little: "I was also very angry at the time, so I left directly."
"I didn't expect that he was really dead."
Tang Jiaojiao shook her head: "It has nothing to do with me. I didn't kill him. He died on his own."
"He's mentally ill, he's a psycho!"
After a while, Tang Jiaojiao calmed down.
Zhou Zhimo told her: "We will take samples for testing, please wait for notification."
Later, the police investigated Tang Jiaojiao's boyfriend and found that it was consistent with what Tang Jiaojiao said.
It can be seen that Tang Jiaojiao and her boyfriend were shocked by Yang Chenlin's sudden death.
Yang Chenlin died suddenly, and his parents suffered a great blow and were in a trance.
Knowing that the last person Yang Chenlin contacted before his death was Tang Jiaojiao, they cried and shouted: "She must have harmed my son, arrest her and pay for my son's life."
"She must have found a new love and pushed my son into the river."
There was no progress in the case for a while, and Zhou Zhimo came to the river embankment again.
He stood at the place where Yang Chenlin's accident happened, leaning against the railing and observing his surroundings.
Suddenly, Zhou Zhimo saw a surveillance camera installed under the eaves of the second floor not far away.
From that position, you could just see where he was standing.
This discovery immediately cheered up Zhou Zhimo, and he ran towards the second floor.
The knock on the door alerted the neighbor. The old lady opened the door and asked him, "Who are you looking for?"
Zhou Zhimo, wearing casual clothes, turned to the old lady and said, "I'm looking for this family. Do you know where they have gone?"
The old lady told him: "He went to his son's house."
Zhou Zhimo asked again: "Do you know where his son's home is?"
The old lady waved her hand: "We are far away. We are in another province. We won't be able to come back for a while."
Hearing this, Zhou Zhimo took out his police officer ID card and explained to the old lady: "I am a police officer, and I want to ask them for help with something."
"Do you think you can help me get in touch?"
This kind of old neighbor is basically familiar with them, and everyone knows that the old lady Mo Ding has the contact information of this family.
Sure enough, the old lady called him into the house: "Come in, I will find a phone number for you."
The old lady took out a book, pointed to a number and told Zhou Zhimo: "This belongs to his son."
"When I picked up the old man last time, I left a phone number so that I could call him if anything happened at home."
Zhou Zhimo hurriedly wrote down the phone number, thanked the old lady, turned and went downstairs.
He returned to the place where Yang Chenlin's accident occurred and dialed the number: "Hello, I'm the police, Zhou Zhimo."
Zhou Zhimo expressed his intention: "I need your help with something."
