Chapter 53

Chen Pu brought Zhou Yangxin and first questioned Li Meiling. He asked Li Qingyao to watch and listen in the compartment.

Arriving at the police station, Li Meiling calmed down a lot and said, "Who killed my husband? You must catch the real murderer!"

Chen Pu said: "We will do our best. When was the last time you saw Luo Hongmin?"

Li Meiling thought for a moment and answered, "Last Saturday."

According to Li Meiling, last Saturday, the three of them went to the villa. After lunch, she took Xiang Siling's car back to the city at around 3 or 2 pm. Four years ago, Luo Hongmin paid for her to open a massage parlor. Business was good, and the weekend was the best time for business, so she had to come back to look after the shop. Xiang Siling had to take her -year-old daughter to a camping activity on a mountain hours away from Xiangcheng on Sunday, so she had to rush back.

The forensic doctor currently determines that Luo Hongmin died late on Saturday night.

Chen Pu asked, "A living person hasn't contacted you for a week, and you didn't notice? No one in the company has contacted him?"

Li Meiling shook her head: "He was originally planning to go to Sanya, and we all thought he was going on vacation. He is the kind of person who doesn't like to be disturbed on vacation, and we all know that, so if nothing serious happened in the company, no one would look for him."

"On vacation, with whom?"

Li Meiling's expression was a little unnatural at this time: "He is alone."

"Go to Sanya alone for a week-long vacation?"

"Um……"

"Mrs. Luo, if you don't tell the truth, it will affect our investigation. You also hope to catch the murderer as soon as possible."

Chen Pu and Zhou Yangxin questioned her skillfully for a while, and Li Meiling finally told the truth: "Although he treats me well, I am not young after all. After a few years of marriage, he has lost interest in her. He has money, and sometimes he goes to the beach in Sanya to find some romantic encounters to satisfy himself. Men are like that. As long as he doesn't bring her home, I don't care."

Chen Pu asked Li Meiling if Luo Hongmin had any enemies or had conflicts with anyone recently. Li Meiling thought about it and said no. Although Luo Hongmin was smart and good at business, he would offend people, but he definitely didn't have any deadly enemies. Chen Pu asked about the names of Luo Hongmin's business competitors, and Li Meiling said she didn't know and wanted to ask Xiang Siling.

Chen Pu asked again: "Was Luo Hongmin the landlord of your previous house?"

"Ah."

"When did you meet and when did you get together?"

"When we first rented the house, it was Lao Xiang who dealt with Lao Luo, and I had never met him. Later, something happened at home and Lao Xiang was killed. Lao Luo felt sorry for us and my daughter, so he reduced our rent for a while and helped me a lot. After a while, I wanted to find someone to rely on again. His wife had died of breast cancer a long time ago, and then we got together naturally."

"Luo Huaizheng was the murderer who killed your husband. Why is he here with you today? Have you forgiven me? Are you so generous?"

Li Meiling said coldly, "Girls are no longer under the control of their mothers. He was brought here by Xiang Siling. I don't understand why the two of them got together again, and they don't allow me to scold them. If my husband hadn't died today, I would have rushed up to beat that little beast."

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The second person to be questioned was Xiang Siling.

Compared with the emotionally outspoken Li Meiling, Xiang Siling seemed much more stable and decent even with red eyes. She could already answer the police's questions in a clear and organized manner.

As for the last time she saw Luo Hongmin and the fact that Luo Hongmin went to Sanya alone, her story was exactly the same as Li Meiling's. As the vice president of a powerful department in the company, she often took over the position of general manager when Luo Hongmin was on business trips or vacations. She also believed that Luo Hongmin had no one who could be called an "enemy" and had not had any conflicts with anyone recently. However, she provided the names of several business competitors as requested by Chen Pu.

During the story, Xiang Siling called Luo Hongmin "Dad" several times, so Zhou Yangxin asked: "Luo Hongmin only married your mother five years ago. You were 20 years old at that time. How could you still call him dad?"

Xiang Siling's expression was sincere: "He and his ex-wife had no children. He provided me with food, clothing, and college education, and raised me as his own daughter. So three years ago, when I graduated from college and joined the company, I changed my name and called him dad. I will take care of him in his old age and see him to the end of his life." After she finished speaking, her tears fell again. Zhou Yangxin said: "Then Luo Hongmin is really good to you and your daughter. When will you stay in Yingzhu Mountain and return to the city?"

"Early on Monday morning, around 9 or 10 o'clock, I sent my child to kindergarten and rushed back to work."

Chen Pu asked: "Luo Hongmin was your landlord before, right? It was during the Luo Huaizheng case. Did you know Luo Hongmin at that time?"

Xiang Siling shook her head: "I didn't know him at that time. It was only after my biological father died that he came to visit and help us and got together with my mother that I got to know him."

"So do you like your biological father more, or this stepfather?"

Xiang Siling was silent for a while, then started crying again and said, "My biological father was a coward and died early in an accident. But when he was alive, he was always very good to me, but he was not capable enough. In my heart, he will always be my biological father. Luo Hongmin is different. He is an excellent entrepreneur. As a junior, I don't want to comment on his private life. But to be honest, I have come into contact with many company bosses and wealthy people over the years. Compared with them, he is relatively responsible for his family. Luo Hongmin is not only my elder, but also my guide and teacher in my career. Without him, I would not be who I am today. I respect and appreciate him from the bottom of my heart. Officers, please make sure to catch the murderer and comfort his soul in heaven."

"So you have a good relationship with your biological father. Isn't Luo Huaizheng the murderer? Why did he come with you today?"

Xiang Siling looked a little embarrassed, as if someone had spoken of her secret, but her answer was frank: "This is not contradictory. What happened back then was an accident. Luo Huaizheng actually failed, all for me. In the end, he is also a victim. Over the years, I have blamed myself deeply. If I hadn't taken sick leave and hadn't made my father angry, and if there hadn't been that terrible misunderstanding, Luo Huaizheng would definitely not have gone to jail. He is a very good person, but he was implicated by me and his life was ruined. Now, those things are over, and he has been in jail and paid the price. I don't blame him, on the contrary, I still feel guilty about him. Now that I have the ability, what's wrong with wanting to help him in the business world? His company is now an important partner of our company. Today he happened to be reporting the plan at Huayu. When I received the call from the cleaning lady and the police, I was at a loss and begged him to come with me."

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The last person to be questioned was Luo Huaizheng.

He sat in the interrogation room, holding a paper cup in his hand, with his head slightly lowered. He was calm from beginning to end, neither happy nor angry.

His statement was exactly the same as Xiang Siling's. He was reporting a plan at her company, and something went wrong. Xiang Siling lost control of her emotions and asked him to accompany her, so he came.

"You went to jail because of the Xiang family's affairs. Why were you willing to accept the project cooperation with Xiang Siling and even accompany her here today? Do you really not mind at all?" Chen Pu asked.

Luo Huaizheng was silent for a while, then said, "I want to eat too. Cooperation with Huayu is a business matter. I didn't know Xiang Siling was the vice president of the company beforehand. As for today, it was just a coincidence. In front of so many people from both companies, I couldn't refuse for business reasons. Besides, who knows..." He laughed at himself again, "Maybe I was just mentally dark at the time, and wanted to come and see what kind of tragic experience the mother and daughter would have."

Chen Pu asked again: "Have you met Luo Hongmin before?"

Luo Huaizheng shook his head: "I don't even know what he looks like."

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The police soon found out that on the Saturday night when Luo Hongmin was killed, Li Meiling was staying at the massage parlor, Xiang Siling was staying at a hotel on the hillside of Yingzhu Mountain, and Luo Huaizheng was working overtime at the company all night. There were surveillance records and witnesses for all of them. The three of them were immediately ruled out as suspects.

On the afternoon of the second day after the incident, Yan Yong, who was in charge of checking the surveillance, discovered an extremely critical piece of information:

At 2:05 a.m. on the night Luo Hongmin was murdered, two cameras on a nearby highway captured an old van without a license plate driving towards the villa.

Although there are no houses around the villa, a peripheral camera of another residence on the hillside about 2 to 11 meters away captured the car, which was parked on a mountain road not far from the villa at : a.m.

In the extremely blurry zoomed-in picture, a thin man about 1 meters tall can be seen wearing a peaked cap, a loose short-sleeved shirt with yellow and green patterns on a white background, gray-blue jeans, and a black bag on his back, climbing over the wall into the villa. About half an hour later, he left the villa with his backpack and hurriedly got into the car and left.

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