Chapter 87

Li Qingyao only took a glance and then looked away, a cold look on her face. She continued to eat the bread, but suddenly she stopped eating big bites and started eating in small bites.

After she finished the last bite, she threw the packaging bag into the trash can and took a wet towel to wipe her mouth and hands. Then the dark shadow stood up, walked to her desk, bent his index finger joint, and knocked on the table, making a crisp "dong dong" sound.

"Let's go to the small meeting room."

Li Qingyao, with a sullen expression as usual, picked up a stack of documents and followed Chen Pu into the meeting room.

Chen Pu turned on the light, threw the notebook on the table, pulled out a chair and sat down, opened the notebook with one hand, put his other hand to his mouth with his fist, and coughed twice.

Li Qingyao sat down opposite him, then looked up and took a few more glances. This man seemed to be thinner and darker. In addition to the dark bags under his eyes, there were bloodshot eyes due to lack of rest. He coughed, as if he was choking on the cold wind. But he quickly put his hand down, his expression was normal, his eyes were still downcast, and he didn't look at her.

The level of coldness was even worse than before he left.

The fire in Li Qingyao's heart that had disappeared for five days suddenly sprouted out of nowhere and leapt high, accompanied by gusts of cold wind, and a storm was about to come.

But Li Qingyao never showed her anger when she was sulking. She changed her posture, relaxed her whole body, leaned back in the chair, crossed her legs, put her right hand on the armrest, and a smile that could be called elegant appeared on her face.

Chen Pu immediately felt the change in her aura and his heart skipped a beat.

"The earliest flight you took? Leaving at 5 o'clock?" She asked with a smile, "Are you in such a hurry?"

Chen Pu replied with a serious face: "You have made an important discovery here. As the team leader, of course I have to rush back as soon as possible. I have already informed Lao Ding that it doesn't matter if I am missing in Yunnan."

Li Qingyao sighed, flipped through the information casually, and said, "Why do you have to explain so much? You can come back whenever you want. Why do you need to explain to a team member like me?"

Chen Pu choked and was silent for a moment, then said, "Let's talk about the case."

But Li Qingyao's excitement was far from over. He still drooped his eyelids and said softly, "It's just like what I sent you. The photo was found in Luo Hongmin's old house. It could be a coincidence, or the two of them really have some other connection. In fact, you don't have to rush back. I will continue to investigate. I didn't find it before. It's quite efficient to investigate a case alone. Didn't I find such an important clue? In fact, you can continue to stay in Yunnan and give remote commands. I guarantee you can rest assured."

Chen Pu looked up at her.

Li Qingyao said unhappily, "What are you looking at? What's wrong with what I said?"

He said slowly: "Didn't you send a message asking me to reply quickly?"

Li Qingyao: ...

Damn, she forgot about it. When she found the clue at midnight yesterday, her first reaction was to tell him and ask him to come back quickly.

Li Qingyao couldn't find an excuse for a moment and kept silent with a cold face.

Then Chen Pu said, "You sent the message at around 3:00 a.m., and if we know you were investigating the case alone, who would dare not come back?"

For some reason, these words instantly made Li Qingyao's anger disappear by half. However, she still looked arrogant and pushed the photo in the evidence bag in front of him: "Okay, go back if you want to, it doesn't matter, let's talk about the case."

Chen Pu picked up the photo and his expression became serious: "Do you know when this photo was taken?"

Li Qingyao shook his head and said, "But I guess it was between the summer of 2016 and the summer of 2017, which is seven years ago."

Chen Pu nodded.

They had already found out that seven years ago, Liu Huaixin and two unidentified men rented Room 17, Building 101, Chaoyang Home. But his family and friends didn't know what Liu Huaixin was doing that year. Until that summer, Liu Huaixin returned home and his personality changed drastically. He became taciturn and began to study hard for postgraduate entrance examinations. He was eventually admitted and worked at No. Middle School after graduation.

Chen Pu looked at her, his eyes clear and penetrating: "Then what was Luo Hongmin doing during this period of time? Do you know?"

Li Qingyao had already known this very well when he was sorting out Luo Hongmin's "story" during this period.

"From 2015 to 2017, Luo Hongmin opened a live broadcast platform company, but in the winter of 2017, due to policy reasons and poor management, he closed the live broadcast platform and turned to online education."

Chen Pu's eyes fell on the photo again: "So, this photo could be of an event of the live broadcast company?" His heart was slightly shocked: "Liu Huaixin and the other two men stay at home all day, are they doing live broadcasts in that house?"

Li Qingyao looked at him steadily: "I think so too."

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What was the situation of the live broadcast market a few years ago? It was turbulent, mixed with good and bad, lacking supervision, and full of chaos. Chen Pu and Li Qingyao immediately went to report to Ding Guoqiang. Ding Guoqiang also thought that this clue was very strange, so he waved his hand and asked them to continue investigating.

According to the personnel files of Huayu Group, most of the backbones who followed Luo Hongmin to do live broadcasting have left, and a few have stayed and entered the middle and senior management of the group. Luo Hongmin is dead, and Chen Pu and others immediately went to find these people to understand the situation.

However, the survey results were not so ideal.

None of these people knew Liu Huaixin. According to them, when the live streaming platform was first established, everything was still in the exploratory stage, the management was very chaotic, and the number of anchors grew explosively. They really had no impression of Liu Huaixin. As for the photo, they all recognized that it was from a monthly commendation meeting of the platform, which was held every month. The representatives of the live streaming accounts that ranked in the top 30 in terms of live streaming income that month would receive awards.

Chen Pu and Li Qingyao made a comprehensive judgment and concluded that these people were not lying.

Li Qingyao asked them for the archival materials of the live broadcast company, but they said that after the platform went bankrupt, Luo Hongmin and several senior executives discussed and decided to completely destroy all the materials, both paper and electronic data.

"why?"

They showed a little embarrassment, but did not hide it. They explained that at that time, the live broadcast platform was very chaotic and the regulatory policy was not perfect. If many contents were put into the present, the live broadcast host and the person in charge of the platform would go to jail. Mr. Luo did this for safety reasons. It must be a special factor of the times.

Chen Pu and his colleagues wanted to search the Internet to see if they could find the live video related to Liu Huaixin. However, they found nothing because the main data had been cleared and the time interval was too long. The two had to ask colleagues in the information department to continue their search. However, the other party said that this was like looking for a needle in a haystack and it might take a long time.

The clues are interrupted here.

Chen Pu and Li Qingyao discussed again which direction to look for a breakthrough.

After working together for two days, the two still cooperated harmoniously and in unison, but they never mentioned anything other than work, and there was no more jokes. After get off work, they never ate together. Li Qingyao said, "I'm tired and want to go home for takeout," and Chen Pu said, "Okay," and went to a roadside restaurant alone. In the morning, they no longer went to work together, and no one made appointments with each other. During work hours, they handled business as usual and discussed the matter at hand. Occasionally, when the discussion got heated, their eyes met, shining, but they turned away calmly, as if nothing had happened.

At this moment, Chen Pu wrote the names Luo Hongmin and Liu Huaixin on the whiteboard, labeled them A and B respectively, and then wrote C and D at the end, but left the corresponding names blank.

Li Qingyao understood immediately: "C and D are the other two people who did the live broadcast with Liu Huaixin."

Chen Pu nodded and said, "I was thinking about this last night. We previously determined that the Zhang Xiyu case was behind Liu Huaixin's death. Later, I speculated that there was a master with strong anti-reconnaissance ability who was the real murderer of Liu Huaixin. As for Luo Hongmin's death, Lu Xing is the biggest suspect on the surface. It is not ruled out that it is related to Xiang Siling. Love killing and revenge killing are the main motives.

But what if we look at it from a different angle?
Luo Hongmin was the boss of the live broadcast platform and the financial sponsor, while Liu Huaixin and the other two were the anchors. They were all related to the same thing, which was live broadcasting. Now, in just three months, two of the four people involved in this matter have been killed. "

Li Qingyao's heart was shocked.

She said, "Could it be that all our previous inferences were wrong? Luo Hongmin's death really had nothing to do with Xiang Siling, but was caused by something else? Is there someone else who is the real murderer?"

Chen Pu twirled the pen between his fingers and said, "Don't jump to conclusions. If Luo Hongmin's death was really due to something related to the live broadcast, how do you know that Xiang Siling had nothing to do with it?"

Chen Pu decided to go talk to Xiang Siling again. Since there was no other breakthrough for the time being, he might as well give it a try.

Xiang Siling was as cheerful and cooperative as ever.

However, when she saw the photo of Liu Huaixin alone, she looked confused and frowned: "Who is this person? I don't know him."

His expression didn't seem fake.

When asked about the live streaming platform, she was even more confused: "Seven years ago, Qingyao, you and I were in high school together. I was so young at that time and didn't even know my stepfather, so how could I know about the company? Later, I learned that he did live streaming during that period, but I really don't know the details at all."

After they left, Xiang Siling sat there quietly for a while, twitched the corner of her mouth, took out her cell phone and called her ex-husband Qian Chengfeng.

Qian Chengfeng said, "Now that you are the big boss, if you have anything to ask of me, please call me, your old friend?"

Xiang Siling said: "I can't call you if I'm fine? Am I so heartless and ungrateful in your heart?"

Qian Chengfeng was silent for a moment, then said, "I didn't mean that. Tell me, what's the matter?"

"The police came just now and showed me a photo and asked me to identify the person."

"Who?"

“If I remember correctly, that person should be the one who did the live broadcast with you back then. I saw a photo of the three of you at home.

Qian Chengfeng, why did the police suddenly investigate him and his live streaming platform after so many years? What shameful things did you three do back then? "

Qian Chengfeng has done live streaming, as mentioned in the previous article. Do you have any impression of him?