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"Anyway," Lin Huai said, "let's watch the surveillance first."

The two of them and the community security guards spent one night watching the monitoring, but they did not find any key targets. Moreover, the community is old, and the monitoring does not cover the entire community. If someone wants to bypass the monitoring, it is not impossible. It was even more troublesome. After discussing, the two decided to start with Li Huanyu's friends and colleagues. Those who overturned the case were not very good at communicating for various reasons.

Just like what they thought, although colleagues and friends are easy to communicate with, they can't get any useful information. Li Huanyu is usually quiet and silent. For the group of people who reversed the case, Li Huanyu came here from his hometown. After the case was reversed, those people did not stay in their hometown. They went to different places, and the difficulty of investigation and evidence collection suddenly increased.

There are ten suspects in total: Li Huanyu's mother, two uncles, four neighbors and relatives of the neighbors. Although two of them have died of illness, there is no guarantee that it is not relatives who took revenge.

Lin Huai sat back on the desk and took a look at the photos of the crime scene again. The traces of the fight on the scene were not obvious, so both of them believed that the murderer should have brought his own murder weapon. The murderer attacked Li Huanyu. Fear ran from the entrance to the balcony, knocking over a vase and two cups in the process. As for whether Li Huanyu panicked or was pushed down by the murderer in the final fall, it is not known.

Lin Huai frowned. Looking at the exquisite decoration and furnishings of the house, he suddenly thought of something, turned on the computer, and logged into the query system.

"Li Huanyu bought her house by herself, four years ago," Lin Huai said.

Chen Shen was taken aback for a moment, and he and Lin Huai met their gazes.

"The housing prices here are not low. Even four years ago, it cost more than 4 square meters. Li Huanyu's house has 1 square meters, and the total cost is 60 million. How did she get here? She had just graduated from college at that time."

In this way, the source of the money is very interesting. After inquiry, the two found that Li Huanyu had the money for buying a house earlier, and it was called by a person named Liao Nian, but the investigation After looking at it, they found that Liao Nian and Li Huanyu didn't seem to have any relationship. They were in different cities, and they didn't seem to have any real communication, which was very interesting.

It was almost eleven o'clock in the evening, and Lin Huai began to check the turnover of Liao Nian. This person's turnover was very strange. He was obviously an ordinary office worker, but his turnover was very large, so it was troublesome to check.

In the past two days, monitoring and comparing details, collecting evidence on the spot, asking and making notes, did not stop for a moment. I was not so tired when I was in the criminal investigation team before. Someone else did it, and when it was handed over to him, the information was already sorted out.

"Take a rest and drink a glass of water." Lin Huai looked up and found that Chen Shen handed him a glass of water.

Lin Huai took the water silently, rubbed his sore eyes, and asked, "Are you tired?"

"The basic level is always so tiring, that's why I took the criminal investigation team directly," Chen Shen said boldly, "otherwise, your elder brother transferred me to that village, why would I give up."

"..." Lin Huai was silent for a while, "It seems that I dragged you from one fire pit to another fire pit."

"You can't say that, who knows if your elder brother is going to make me bear the crime of the auction." Chen Shen said in a relaxed tone.

"..." Lin Huai did not respond to Chen Shen.

Chen Shen put down his cup, looked at Lin Huai, and asked, "I always feel that you haven't said a lot."

"I just think it's useless to talk nonsense. A thing won't be what I say."

"But what do you want to say now? I'm curious." Chen Shen's tone was frank, and he looked at Lin Huai seriously.

"..." The young man remained silent.

"Okay then, can I ask a question?"

Lin Huai glanced at Chen Shen and nodded.

"You said that you helped me because of guilt. I'm curious about what made you feel guilty. Since you want to make up for me, you must be able to tell me this."

"...Well," Lin Huai moved his mouth, "When I was in high school, I made friends who were more playful, and one of them made friends with an unusual girl, the kind who was cute and pure, The appearance is ordinary, everyone was surprised that friend would find such a girl..."

"One day at the ktv, they gang-raped the girl, and the girl jumped to her death because of this, but I was so drunk at the time, I didn't know anything, and I couldn't do anything."

Chen Shen frowned, and he asked, "Sorry, can I ask another question, your elder brother still seems to think that you have something to do with the case, did something special happen?"

"Yes..." Lin Huai was not surprised by Chen Shen's insight. Lin Huai closed his eyes and said, "I said at the time that my friend had a strange taste. Although I said that, he didn't dare to say anything to me. That day, he was in a bad mood and quarreled with that girl, and then he left her and left. When I woke up, the girl had already jumped off the building, and that friend rushed over to beat me up and called me a murderer. A scene happened to be seen by my elder brother..."

"Is this enough?" Lin Huai looked at Chen Shen and asked.

Chen Shen's eyes were clear, and Lin Huai was dazed for a moment. Chen Shen said, "I don't think you need to feel guilty, but it's good to help me relieve your guilt, but you still have to let go of this matter after that."

Lin Huai turned his attention to the computer screen. In fact, he still lied about some things, but he didn't intend to tell Chen Shen.

"This person named Wu Xi is very suspicious." Chen Shen suddenly approached, and clicked on the name of this person in the journal, "I saw this name in the case file. He is the defendant's lawyer."

The defendant's lawyer secretly paid Li Huanyu?And it was still such a large sum, a spark flashed in Lin Huai's mind, and a strange speculation emerged. He looked at Chen Shen, and Chen Shen nodded, knowing that they wanted to go somewhere.

"There may be ghosts in the reversal of the case at the beginning." Chen Shen said.

"There may be ghosts in the reversal of the case at the beginning." Chen Shen said.

With the help of lawyer Wu Xi, this group of people got a high amount of state compensation after overturning the case...

"So can the suspicion of these people be ruled out..." Lin Huai said to himself.

Chen Shen shook his head and replied: "Assuming that there are rape cases, sometimes the more a person does something, the more he denies it. He knows it in his heart, but others don't. Revenge by relatives cannot be ruled out."

Lin Huai sat back on the chair. He felt that something was missing, a guess he didn't want to think about. He looked up at Chen Shen, opened his mouth, but the door was suddenly pushed open.

"Why are you still here? Are you working on the case of jumping from a building?" A colleague from the police station poked his head out from behind the door. If Lin Huai remembers correctly, this is the person who gave him his household registration information. not much.

"Yes, but I plan to go back and rest first." Chen Shen smiled.

The male colleague said: "If anyone needs my help..."

Chen Shen shook his head: "We just search casually, and when the criminal investigation side is free, the case will still be handed over to them."

The male colleague hesitated for a moment, then continued, "So is there anything special to discover...?"

"Does it count if the victim was a victim?"

The male colleague frowned and replied, "That's really complicated..."

"Yes, if we investigate one by one, we still have to wait for the criminal investigation to send someone." Chen Shen nodded, "After all, there are too many suspects involved in the case."

The male colleague nodded silently, told you to go to bed early, and disappeared at the door.

Chen Shen turned his head, only to find that Lin Huai's brows were frowning even tighter.

"What are you thinking?" Chen Shen asked Lin Huai who was still frowning.Chang, Xing; Lao/actin; Aunt Zhengli

"The scope of the suspects has to be expanded," Lin Huai looked up. "If it was a revenge killing, the police who handled the case at that time would have been punished. Maybe we need to check their recent situation..."

Chen Shen didn't show a surprised expression, Lin Huai paused, and asked, "You thought of it a long time ago?"

"Actually, I still have a guess," Chen Shen said. He did not directly answer Lin Huai's question. "We didn't find the suspect from the surveillance. In fact, there are two possibilities. First, the suspect bypassed the surveillance , Second, the suspect lives in the community, and he has never gone out."

"..." Lin Huai raised his eyes, "You prefer the latter?"

"Although the results of the forensic autopsy have not yet come out, I estimate that the time of the incident was between twelve and three o'clock. The victim has a regular schedule and is not someone who would open the door to strangers casually. Moreover, the deceased did not have sharp wounds on his body. The murderer Even the murder weapon was not seriously prepared, so I have to say it looks more like a crime of passion, and it is rare to remember to escape from surveillance after a crime of passion kills."

Lin Huai was silent for a while, and then analyzed: "The person who can open the door for the deceased must be someone she thinks is not a threat, someone she knows well or...the police?"

"Although I think so, the strange thing is..." Chen Shen tilted his head and said while thinking, "Li Huanyu is introverted and cowardly, if she sees the policeman who handled the case visiting late at night, I don't think she will Have the courage to open the door."

"So, a cop she knew who had no connection to the previous case?"

After Lin Huai finished speaking, he looked at the smiling Chen Shen. He felt a strange sense of disobedience. This person seemed to have guessed a long time ago, but he didn't want to speak up by himself, so he guided him step by step to speak out.

"If you have an idea, you can say it directly, and I won't mind."

"What do you mind?" Chen Shen was stunned for a moment, then he understood in the next second, and he laughed, "Do you think I'm deliberately teasing you, or I don't want to make myself look too smart, in your mind In the middle, am I so amazing? I thought this was a normal partner discussion."

"...Sorry..." Lin Huai finished, and suddenly realized that Chen Shen called him "partner", his heart skipped a beat for no reason.

"But I really don't seem to be credible." Chen Shen sat on the table, and his movements looked elegant and smooth, "After all, I am a person who climbed mountains and ridges on a rainy night and pretended to fall down. The scheming is really deep , my every step is arranged..."

Lin Huai was choked up, he didn't expect Chen Shen to speak so directly, although sometimes he did feel this way, this person was so perfect and caring that it was abnormal.

"...every move is deliberately designed after observing with me..."

Chen Shen was still laughing, but Lin Huai was in a hurry, he interrupted Chen Shen.

"I didn't mean that," Lin Huai spoke quickly, "Not from the beginning, although I think you are very smart, but I don't think you are the kind of person who deliberately pretends, you... sometimes very honest... "

"Even when it's a lie?" Chen Shen smiled.

These words hit Lin Huai's heart firmly, and he was completely speechless. Sometimes he really thought so, Lin Huai thought for a while, and said decisively: "No, I just think you I don’t care about cheating at all.”

Lin Huai found that Chen Shen was looking at him steadily, a trace of surprise flashed across Chen Shen's expression, and Lin Huai's voice suddenly became quieter.

"Uh... I mean, just because I think so, doesn't mean you're..."

Chen Shen turned his head sideways, and for a moment, Lin Huai noticed that there was no smile on the other party's face, but the next second, Chen Shen turned back, but there was a smile on his face again: "I know what you mean, I thought you weren't Someone who cares about other people's feelings."

"..." Speaking of this, Lin Huai had nothing to say. He closed his eyes, "Well, I didn't care about others at all before. To be honest, I don't need to care about others too much."

"So you mean we are about the same? Then I'm not a good person, I like to lie to others?"

"No..." Lin Huai found that the more he explained, the darker he became, "I'm not saying you must have lied, I just..."

Lin Huai's tongue started to get knotted, but he raised his head to meet Chen Shen's narrow eyes, Lin Huai's voice became dull: "Are you deliberately teasing me for fun?"

Chen Shen answered him with a smile. For a moment, Lin Huai seemed to have seen the scene of seeing Chen Shen for the first time. He remembered the first time he saw Chen Shen, when he was just a freshman in high school, and his My sister Lin Ya is a sophomore.

He was lying on the chair on the balcony on the second floor, and saw Lin Ya and Chen Shen. Chen Shen was supposed to help Lin Ya move things because of the school.

Lin Huai looked at the stranger and didn't intend to say hello. He didn't like these annoying social interactions since he was a child. As a young child, his family pampered him and didn't force him, and the guests would just smile and wave their hands and say "what about the child?" , and even found various places to flatter him to please Lin Qu, which made him feel that he didn't want to pay attention to those hypocritical guys. When guests came to the house, he usually just pretended that he had never seen them.

After a while, Lin Huai keenly discovered that Lin Ya might like Chen Shen, which made him look at Chen Shen a few more times. Chen Shen was wearing a t-shirt with the University of Political Science and Law printed on it and whitish jeans. He's handsome, but he's just handsome. What surprised him even more was that Lin Ya, who had dated several boyfriends from similar families, would chase after an ordinary person. He knew that Lin Ya didn't think much of ordinary people, but this person It's okay to be his brother-in-law, but it doesn't matter, it doesn't have much to do with him.

I don't know what Lin Ya said to Chen Shen, Chen Shen suddenly smiled, it was a very refreshing smile, there seemed to be stars in Chen Shen's eyes, the young man's sight was fixed, Lin Huai opened his eyes slightly, logically Speaking of him, he should have seen countless smiles like this, but it seemed to be the first time he saw them.

Chen Shen greeted Lin Ya, hummed a song happily and left. He never looked at this small western-style building again, and he didn't even secretly look at the guards in military uniforms at the door like other first-timers. When I came down, I forgot everything I had just seen, and left Lin Ya and him, as if they were not worth mentioning.

That was Chen Shen's first visit to their house, and also the last time.

Lin Huai felt extremely uncomfortable. The young man lay on the chair, wondering what the hell it was like, why he felt so uncomfortable, it still came from deep in his heart, and he couldn't tear it away.

After a while, the young man finally understood that his discomfort was due to his arrogance. He looked down on Chen Shen, but the other party only took a few tens of seconds to completely reverse his feelings. For the first time, this young man who despised everything suddenly realized It turned out that I was so arrogant and supercilious.

He looked at Chen Shen in front of him. Through this person, he could still see the Chen Shen he had seen before, the young man with a clear and crisp smile, and the other party was still sincere, as if the complicated experiences of these six years had not changed him. .

"Chen Shen," Lin Huai said, "Why didn't you accept my sister back then?"

Chen Shen showed a puzzled expression, as if he didn't understand what question Lin Huai asked, Lin Huai was stunned, yes, arrogant, he thought the other party would definitely accept Lin Ya, he thought that after so long, he was no longer so Arrogant.

"I mean..." But after asking all the questions, Lin Huai continued, "My sister's comprehensive qualifications are good, and you didn't have a girlfriend at the time, right? Why did you refuse... Even if it was just dating during college..." Chen Shen's refusal without hesitation at the beginning made Lin Ya feel sick, but she couldn't accept that Chen Shen was completely unmoved.

Chen Shen looked at him, as if he understood what he meant, he frowned: "How should I say this..."

Lin Huai's heartbeat quickened, and he had been looking forward to this answer for a long time.

"It wasn't just your sister who rejected me at the beginning... I didn't want to develop a stable relationship. I'm used to being free and easy, and I don't want to fall in love. Is this understandable...?" Chen Shen said.

For this answer, Lin Huai was both surprised and not so surprised. He had already felt this way when he watched Chen Shen leave quickly. Chen Shen had a temperament that was easily overinterpreted by others. This unique temperament and Chen Shen's free-wheeling attitude towards life is inseparable.

"Surprised?"

Lin Huai shook his head and replied, "It's a very suitable answer for you."

"I know you've been wanting to apologize to me, and you also think I don't like the current environment," Chen Shen didn't stop there, "but in fact, you can rest assured that I won't be a character who makes me feel wronged."

These words really lightened the weight of the stone that Lin Huai had been pressing in his heart. As long as he is willing, Chen Shen really knows how to make people comfortable. Come back to the case."

"Then besides the police, there are also familiar neighbors." Lin Huai collected his thoughts and continued, "Maybe we can conduct an investigation tomorrow. People definitely need cross-provincial assisted investigation."

"There were two policemen who were fired when they handled the case, and the rest were just demoted, not worth killing for it." Chen Shen skillfully searched for the remaining two people. He moved very quickly and said while typing, "Well, One person has now opened a security company, and the amount of tax paid is not low, and it seems that the benefits are not bad, and the other..."

"What's wrong?" Lin Huai noticed Chen Shen's pause.

"The other died in a car accident five years ago."