Chapter 65

At noon, the two of them had a bowl of rice at a roadside fast food restaurant. Chen Pu ordered spicy beef, and Li Qingyao ordered shredded pork with green peppers.

However, when the two of them were picking up their meals at the window, Chen Pu stared at the braised chicken legs in the cupboard and glanced at Li Qingyao hesitantly. Li Qingyao said coldly, "Chen Xiaopu, if you dare to give me chicken legs, I will break your legs."

Li Qingyao has decided that the evil tendencies must be nipped in the bud in the bud - she will start controlling her diet from noon today.

Chen Pu smiled and said, "Okay, I'll make one myself."

Although the tone of Boss Li's speech to him became more and more lawless, Chen Pu found helplessly that he was quite benefited by it...

After dinner, Chen Pu went to pay the bill, and Li Qingyao went to the milk tea shop next door. Chen Pu waited in the car for a while, and then he saw her drinking from a cup and holding another cup in her hand.

Li Qingyao sat down in the passenger seat and placed the cup on the center console. Chen Pu immediately reached out to take it: "For me? Thanks."

"No." Li Qingyao said slowly, "I put it there so it looks good. Don't you want to stop drinking these things now?"

Chen Pu looked at the label on the cup: Sugar-free Osmanthus Latte. He smiled, poked the straw in, took a big sip, and then put it down, saying, "I was young and ignorant at that time, and I dared to refuse your tea. Please forgive me, and remember my share of tea in the future."

Oh, look at this clever mind, double meaning. Li Qingyao glanced at him, but you can say he has thorns, he kneeled very happily. Considering that he is broad-minded, Li Qingyao decided not to bother with him.

"Drink your tea well." She gave the instruction, "Let's talk business." If there hadn't been so many people in the fast food restaurant, she would have wanted to ask him about the old detective's affairs.

Chen Pu started the car and drove to the intersection. He picked up the milk tea with one hand and took a sip happily. He said, "The first thing that was wrong was that I asked him why he divorced Xiang Siling, and he asked me if I suspected that he was related to Luo Hongmin's death."

Li Qingyao thought for a moment and said, "But it's understandable that he has this reaction. He divorced Xiang Siling, and not only did he lose his love and marriage, but his child also went to Xiang Siling, and he also lost the possibility of inheriting the Huayu Group in the future. It can be said that he lost both his life and his money. Most people are always more sensitive when facing the police. He was afraid that we would suspect that he turned his love into hatred, and that he couldn't get what he wanted, so he took his anger out on killing Luo Hongmin."

"There is no problem here. The problem lies in the words he took the initiative to explain next."

Li Qingyao immediately opened the notebook, glanced at a few lines, and his heart moved.

Qian Chengfeng denied that he would kill Luo Hongmin because Luo Hongmin was his biggest supporter in the company, and if Luo died, it would do him no good.

Chen Pu looked at her expression and asked, "Do you understand?"

Li Qingyao said: "The normal reaction is that he should explain why he and Xiang Siling divorced, and thus explain that there was no hatred caused by love, and he did not covet their property, so naturally he had no motive to kill Luo Hongmin - because the implicit meaning of the question you asked is actually this aspect.

But he didn't, he skipped it and told us that the reason why he couldn't kill Luo Hongmin was because of profit."

Chen Pu smiled approvingly: "You are right. It is reasonable to answer this question according to the former logic. It is also the simplest and safest. You also said that Qian Chengfeng is a smart person, but he did not think of answering in this way.

In other words, when he needed to deny his motive for murder, he subconsciously avoided the love-hate relationship, or in other words, he did not subconsciously deny the love-hate relationship. He directly thought of using the interest relationship to convince us. "

"But we can't conclude that he hates Luo Hongmin in his heart just because he doesn't talk about love and hate, right? This logic is not necessarily true, we can only say that it is possible. And he does seem to be very grateful and admire Luo Hongmin. The tone he used when he first talked about Luo Hongmin didn't sound fake."

Chen Pu: "First of all, who says that a person can only have one emotion towards another person? Or that if there are positive emotions, there can be no negative emotions? His positive emotions towards Luo Hongmin are due to work. What if the negative emotions are due to his relationship with Xiang Siling, or because of emotions? It's just that Qian Chengfeng is a person who puts profit above all else. Maybe in his opinion, the benefits that Luo Hongmin brings to him are far more important than those love and hate. Two contradictory emotions can exist at the same time.

Secondly, indeed, looking at this alone, we can only guess the possibility. We need to combine it with the second doubt I will talk about next, and speculate together - I asked him if Luo Hongmin really didn't mind at all after divorcing Xiang Siling? You can look at what he said. "

Li Qingyao turned back and his eyes stopped at Qian Chengfeng's two sentences:
[All of this is what I deserve. If he doesn't give it to me, I will rebel.]

She thought that Qian Chengfeng had finally revealed a bit of his dissatisfaction with Luo Hongmin.

Chen Pu saw that she understood and said, "Tell me about it."

Li Qingyao replied: "Qian Chengfeng is affected by his emotions here. If he really has no grudges, according to his previous speaking style, his answer here should be very routine and without loopholes, such as praising Luo Hongmin's magnanimity on the one hand and emphasizing his own achievements on the other. But his two sentences clearly show resentment and unwillingness. He seems to feel that Luo Hongmin owes him."

Chen Pu looked at Li Qingyao deeply and said, "That's right. This brings me to the third detail that I think is problematic. I asked him whether he liked his daughter."

Li Qingyao: "You did it on purpose."

"I did it on purpose." Chen Pu smiled faintly, "But what did he answer?"

Li Qingyao remembered it without even looking through the transcript: "He said, 'That's my own flesh and blood, how could I not like him?' When normal people are asked about their children, they will never emphasize that they are their own children, because there is no need to. They will just answer the question directly. Qian Chengfeng feels guilty here."

"No, it's not out of guilt." Chen Pu said, "Qian Chengfeng is smart. If he had any doubts, he would have secretly done a DNA test. But you see, on his desk, there are several photos of his daughter alone, as well as photos of him and his daughter. He was smiling very happily in the photos, so Qian Sitian must be his biological daughter. His reaction at the time was to defend her. He was saying, she is my daughter, not someone else's."

Li Qingyao asked: "Then do you think Qian Chengfeng once suspected whose daughter Tiantian was?" The two looked at each other, with the same deep feeling in their eyes.

At this time, the police car had gradually driven out of the city, and the vast Mingya Lake could be seen in the distance. The early summer sky was deep blue and clear.

Li Qingyao thought that what Chen Pu said before was absolutely right, this was the ability of the old criminal police.

You just heard Qian Chengfeng's three words and let them go, after all, these words themselves are not eye-catching enough. But if you remain highly sensitive, grasp the subtle difference in the other person's mentality, and then use a flexible enough brain to connect the logic before and after, you will find that you can actually outline the dark outline of the underwater part of this seemingly calm iceberg -

Perhaps Qian Chengfeng admires and appreciates Luo Hongmin in his career. In his view, the benefits that Luo Hongmin brings to him are more important than anything else.

He had truly loved Xiang Siling and cherished their marriage. But Qian Chengfeng avoided talking about the impact of Luo Hongmin on their marriage.

He suspected that his daughter was not his. In some unknown way, he had a grudge against Luo Hongmin and felt that he owed him a lot.

……

Chen Pu said: "During the past two days of investigation, I have discovered two strange things. First, the descriptions of Luo Hongmin given by Li Meiling and her daughter, as well as Qian Chengfeng, are different from those given by several external competitors."

"That's right. In the descriptions of the three 'family members', that is, our own people, Luo Hongmin is their patriarch, very kind to them and trustworthy. But in the eyes of outsiders, Luo Hongmin is a ruthless businessman, cares about face, has no sense of loyalty, and is only interested in profit."

Chen Pu added: "Especially towards Li Meiling and her daughter. He felt sorry for them and helped them a lot. He also raised Xiang Siling as if she were his own daughter and even let her control the management of the company. She was no worse than a biological daughter. They are all really kind people."

Li Qingyao said: "This is inconsistent with Luo Hongmin's usual personality. In terms of his character, I believe the descriptions of the three outsiders more."

"So, Li Meiling and her daughter are lying." Chen Pu said, "Luo Hongmin has invested so much in them, especially Xiang Siling, he would never do anything to suffer a loss."

Li Qingyao's mind flashed with the pitiful faces of Li Meiling and her daughter. If Li Meiling was in her forties but still had the charm of a young woman in her thirties, then Xiang Siling was even more stunningly beautiful than her mother, and it was not an exaggeration to call her stunning.

Before, she had thought about whether Xiang Siling was Luo Hongmin's mistress. But because the mother and daughter acted too naturally, and the fact that the mother and daughter shared the same husband was really challenging her worldview. Moreover, Xiang Siling got married and had children after graduating from university, so she did not think deeply about it.

When did Li Meiling marry Luo Hongmin? Five years ago, Xiang Siling was 5 years old, a sophomore in college, and had one year left before graduating from college.

But if the marriage between two people and the family relationship between three people have other additional conditions, they must have been negotiated before the marriage. In other words, the time should be earlier.

19 years old? 18 years old?
A chill suddenly rose in Li Qingyao's heart.

Seven years ago, when Xiang Siling was 18, Luo Huaizheng was imprisoned for accidentally killing Xiang Siling's biological father. Li Jincheng disappeared a few days later.

For the past seven years, Li Qingyao has been trudging through a dry wasteland, unable to find Li Jincheng or see Luo Huaizheng clearly. But now, due to the Luo Hongmin case, she seems to have finally come to a cave, and she needs to boldly cross it barefoot. But there is no light in the cave, and it is filled with black fog and suffocating. She seems to have finally grasped a piece of the puzzle, but there is still only endless darkness in front of her.

Chen Pu's face also turned grim. He did not stop reasoning: "The second strange thing is that as a bystander, I feel that Xiang Siling, in the high school period you described, in the marriage life described by Qian Chengfeng, and what I am seeing with my own eyes now, feels like three people -

The first one is Xiang Siling in high school, who was introverted, inferior, timid, and afraid of attracting attention; the second one is Xiang Siling who fell in love with Qian Chengfeng and got married, who is a little introverted and a little arrogant, but not inferior or timid at all. The third one is Xiang Siling now..."

Li Qingyao said: "She is very confident and generous, thick-skinned and scheming. She is very good at using her appearance to her advantage and has great social skills. She has completely changed into a different person."

"What caused this drastic change in her personality?"

Li Qingyao frowned and said, "But this is still unreasonable. If Xiang Siling really became Luo Hongmin's lover so early, she graduated from college four years ago and was only 4 years old. Luo Hongmin had no need to marry her to Qian Chengfeng. And from Qian Chengfeng's description, their married life was serious. Luo Hongmin could have kept her by his side until she was in her 21s and thought of other ways to cover it up. Nowadays, there are many unmarried people in their 30s on the street. The child was born more than a year after they got married, so there is no possibility of her taking the blame."

Chen Pu also said: "This is indeed inexplicable. I don't think Luo Hongmin would be so generous as to share women with others. He should regard the mother and daughter as his own."

Both fell silent.

After a while, Li Qingyao sneered: "This 'family', four people, all have secrets."

Chen Pu said: "Maybe it's the same secret that they are unwilling or unable to tell."

Li Qingyao's heart seemed to be entangled more deeply by the damp mist in the cold cave. She looked at the scenery in front of her: a greenway by the lake, leading to the direction of Luo Hongmin's villa, and the gray roof could be seen in the distance. Beside them, there were green trees and a vast lake with no end in sight. This was the largest and most remote and deserted freshwater lake in Xiangcheng.

Chen Pu parked the car on the side of the road and said, "Qian Chengfeng's alibi is invalid. Now, we need to further investigate the alibis of the mother and daughter."

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Lao Mo: I'm not in a good state. It took me 9 hours to write and edit this chapter. Maybe it's a cyclical low point again. I've updated for 17 consecutive days. It's time to stop and find the feeling and rhythm of the characters. I'll take a leave of absence for the next two days and resume updating on July 7.18. Thank you everyone, I love you.