celebrity effect

"Let's start." Xing Yang unscrewed the cap of the marker pen, turned around and wrote six questions on the glass whiteboard, and tapped on the blackboard, "Please speak freely in the order of the questions, the first question, Qi Mengjie in the second half where?"

"I was drinking outside." Zongzheng Qiaowen said, "I don't know, Ye Kun knows that I drink too much."

"Yes, I'll drink with Qiao Wen." Ye Kun said.

"We drank together." Cao He pointed to Chi Yicheng, "I went to find Ye Kun and Qiao Wen together after meeting Yi Cheng."

"After Qiao Wen drank too much, Ye Kun and I carried him back together." Chi Yicheng said, "Lin Ziyao can testify."

Lin Ziyao nodded: "Well, Lao Zhao and I have been singing in the box, do you remember Lao Zhao?"

"I just focus on singing, who knows what you guys are going back and forth about." Zhao Yi said violently, "I don't know."

Xing Yang looked at Qi Mengjie, and all the eyes of the second generation officials fell on Qi Mengjie. Chi Yicheng asked, "What did Meng Jie do behind our backs?"

Qi Mengjie blushed: "You don't call me when you drink, Zhao Yi sings so badly, of course I went to you!"

"Hey, don't attack me personally." Zhao Yi said unconvinced. He looked around and asked, "Does my singing sound bad?"

Zongzheng Qiaowen shrank his shoulders, Ye Kun lowered his eyebrows and eyes, and even the slick Cao He remained silent. Xing Yang asked, "You go to them, and then what?"

"I searched around but couldn't find it, so I went..." Qi Mengjie's voice became lower and lower, "Look for someone..." He muttered two words, and Chi Yicheng asked, "Why did you go?"

"Sleep! Sleep! I went to find someone to sleep with!" Qi Mengjie said loudly, "I met a beautiful woman, and I opened a big bed room to sleep alone."

Everyone was silent, Xing Yang asked: "Is there any evidence?"

"Yes." Qi Mengjie took out a business card, "She is a small model, let me contact her when I have time."

Xing Yang took the business card, looked around carefully, and asked, "Mind if I contact her?"

"It's up to you." Qi Mengjiesheng let it go, "I don't have any secrets anymore."

Xing Yang took out his mobile phone and dialed the phone number on his business card to check the information. Zhao Yi smiled and looked at Qi Mengjie: "Forgot your friends, this is the first time I've seen you go out to bed with your brother halfway through a party."

"Reflect on yourself." Qi Mengjie said angrily, "Singing is so ugly that you have the nerve to drag us to KTV."

Xing Yang put away his mobile phone and said, "Ms. Shangguan Yi will come to Fanyun to sign the letter of commitment tomorrow. Second question, where are you four drinking?"

Zongzheng Qiaowen looked at Ye Kun, and Ye Kun said calmly, "In the fire corridor, we sat on the steps and drank."

Cao He nodded: "Yes, Qiao Wen almost fell down the stairs after drinking too much."

Xing Yang glanced at Zongzheng Qiaowen, Ye Kun, Cao He, and Chi Yicheng. He was most suspicious of these four people. There were no cameras in the fire corridor, so he had no way to determine their whereabouts.

"The third question, Cao He said that he met Ye Kun when he went out to buy cigarettes." Xing Yang said, "Ye Kun said..."

"Qiao Wen drank too much, I'll go back and get wet wipes." Ye Kun said, "Wipe his face."

"At that time, Cao He hadn't gone drinking with you yet." Xing Yang said.

"Yes, Qiao Wen is a light drinker, Cao He came in only after he got drunk." Ye Kun said.

"The fourth question, Chi Yicheng, you said you moved the car." Xing Yang said, "Who can prove it?"

"The doorman and the security guard." Chi Yicheng said, "They pointed me to the way to the parking lot. I'm a bit night blind at night, and I can't see the way clearly."

Xing Yang asked: "When you came back, did you go upstairs directly?"

"Yes." Chi Yicheng nodded, "I met Cao He upstairs, I didn't take the elevator, I took the stairs."

Xing Yang narrowed his eyes in confusion: "Zongzheng Qiaowen said that he and Ye Kun were smoking in the corridor when they were waiting for you, but you said you didn't meet them."

Chi Yicheng said firmly: "There are two steps, and we diverged."

"Yes." Ye Kun chimed in, "We didn't meet Chi Yicheng, he came from the other side of the corridor to look for us."

Xing Yang felt something was wrong, he kept his doubts in his heart, and continued to ask: "The fourth question, did all of you meet the girl who fell from the building that night?"

The young people at the table looked at me and I looked at you. The air was full of games and balances. Xing Yang patiently waited for their reply.

Chi Yicheng raised his hand: "Me."

Xing Yang looked at Chi Yicheng: "Speak carefully."

"I saw that girl when I moved the car. She was wearing a dirty school uniform and smelled of cigarettes." Chi Yicheng said, "She asked me if I had anything to eat. I gave her a piece of bread, and she said she was thirsty." Yes, I said I can take her to the KTV to drink water."

"I locked the car and took her into the shopping mall, but I couldn't find her later." Chi Yicheng said, he spread his hands innocently, "She doesn't look good, she's still a minor, what can I worry about?" , I'm not as hungry as Qi Mengjie."

"Hi!" Qi Mengjie protested.

"You can't find her?" Xing Yang asked.

"I walked faster than her, and walked ahead of her. The fourth floor of the shopping mall is a cinema, and the KTV is on the fifth floor. There are a lot of people watching movies on holiday nights. I didn't want to queue up for the elevator, so I took her up the stairs." Chi Yi Cheng said, "When I climbed to the fourth floor, I turned around and she was no longer behind me."

Chi Yicheng's explanation was logical and there were no loopholes. Xing Yang said: "The fifth question, Zhao Yi and Lin Ziyao insisted that they did not go out in the box. Is there any evidence?"

Zhao Yi and Lin Ziyao looked at each other, and Zhao Yi said, "You can adjust the monitoring at the door of the box and the door of the toilet. We didn't go anywhere except to go to the toilet."

Lin Ziyao took out a small USB flash drive: "I copied a video from the mall."

Xing Yang picked up the USB flash drive and inserted it into the docking station, and operated the computer to open it. There was a lonely folder in the USB flash drive, and there were five recorded videos arranged in chronological order in the folder.Xing Yang clicked on one at random, dragged the progress bar, and the picture showed the door of the private room. Cao He opened the door and went out, passing by Ye Kun who came in to get wet wipes.

"The sixth question." Xing Yang closed the laptop, "How can you prove it when you drink together?"

"We..." Zongzheng Qiaowen was stuck, and he looked at Ye Kun.

Ye Kun looked at Chi Yicheng, Chi Yicheng looked at Cao He, Cao He took a deep breath and said, "We have no way to prove it."

Xing Yang tilted his head: "Are you going to say the same to the police?"

"The police can't prove that we have a relationship with the deceased." Cao He said, "There is no doubt."

Cao He is indeed the most thought-provoking one among the second generation of officials. The Cao family is not based in the political world. Cao He is the only one among the seven who came from a merchant family.The Cao family independently founded Hongyun Coal Chemical, and moved to Beijing in the 90s. The state-owned capital holds 40% of the shares in Hongyun Coal Chemical. The Cao family is a real state businessman.Compared to the other six, Cao He was calmer and more alert. He looked at Xing Yang and asked provocatively, "What do you think?"

Cao He's point of view is not wrong, there is no doubt, they can't prove their innocence, and the police can't prove their guilt, so the matter is deadlocked.But it doesn't have to be a stalemate. There were no traces of injury or abuse found on the deceased. She just died in a weird way. Why must a murderer be found to take the blame?

Xing Yang frowned. He didn't believe it was a coincidence, but he couldn't find a logical loophole that wasn't a coincidence.

"Let's stop here today." Zongzhengqian said, giving the stagnant atmosphere a easing step. She looked down at her mobile phone, "At [-]:[-], everyone go downstairs for dinner. I will add up with Yangyang."

"Thank you, Mr. Qian." Zhao Yi said.

"Thank you." Lin Ziyao continued, and Cao He, Ye Kun, Qi Mengjie, and Chi Yicheng all said.

"Thank you, aunt." Zongzheng Qiaowen said.

Zong Zhengqian watched them file out, got up and closed the door of the meeting room, she looked at Xing Yang: "What do you think?"

"My head hurts." Xing Yang said weakly, "I'm so sleepy."

Zong Zhengqian came over and patted Xing Yang on the shoulder: "Let's get off work, I'll think about it tomorrow."

"Hmm." Xing Yang rubbed his eyes and let out a long sigh, "I feel like I'm helping them rehearse the police interrogation today."

"I'll treat you tonight." Zong Zhengqian said, "What do you want to eat?"

"I have a game tonight." Xing Yang said, "I'm going to treat you." He stretched, yawned,

"Okay, okay." Zong Zhengqian pinched Xing Yang's cheeks, "It's really grown up, I have to queue up to get a number when I invite you to dinner."