44. Ugly female secretary

- Maddie spent the last hour and a half in another place, where he was with another person close to him. [Full text reading. Or an old friend of Maddie, or more likely a woman? Does Maddie have another woman in the city besides her wife? Anyway, Maddie was there drinking foreign alcohol and stimulants with the person she was close to, telling that person about the predicament she was facing, discussing and finding a solution to the problem and getting out of the predicament. In the end, there was no good solution, and Maddie, who was extremely depressed, had to leave there and go home, jumping off the building to relieve herself...... This assumption is more likely. But where to go to this person and this person's home?

- Of course, it's also possible that Maddie didn't do anything, and during that hour and a half, Maddie just took a ride in the car and then went home and jumped off the building to commit suicide. There is some possibility of any of these possibilities, but there is no evidence for any of them.

Tang felt that he was facing a desperate situation again:

All clues seem to be important, but none of them can be broken.

Could it be that the regret of turning a living case into a dead case seven years ago will be repeated today?

Tang rolled over again and let out a heavy sigh.

Where is the breaking point?

Stopped again.

How many times has this been? It seems to be the 7th time.

If Ye Manmi's footprints wandering in front of the Public Security Bureau could be displayed on the ground, I am afraid that a circle composed of dense footprints would have been seen long ago.

Every time he walked in front of the tall and verdant Nanjing cypress tree at the door of the Public Security Bureau, Ye Manmi involuntarily stopped, in fact, as long as he took two more steps forward, he arrived at the gate, as long as he told the armed police soldiers standing guard about the situation, he went in to find Tang Hemei who went to Yongtai Trading Company to inspect Maddie's office that day, the matter was over, Ye Manmi's obligations as a citizen were fulfilled, and he no longer had to feel the uneasiness of conscience and emotional guilt.

Ye Manmi said to herself in her heart: You are not going to turn yourself in, you are reporting a crime, what are you afraid of?

However, Ye Manmi still didn't dare to take those few more steps, she was afraid, afraid that her unsightly quirks would be known, and that she would never be good again.

Ye Manmi stopped and looked at the office building of the Public Security Bureau close at hand.

The office building of the Public Security Bureau is a puppet Manchurian building, which is in the style of an ancient castle. From the outside, the maroon roofs rise and fall. Although the building is not big, it is quite imposing. A flock of pigeons flew on the roof at this time, and a "buzzing" pigeon whistle sounded. The entire building of the Public Security Bureau is surrounded by a large wall, and inside the wall is a row of dense poplar trees, and it is impossible to see what the yard looks like, which adds to its mystery in the eyes of outsiders.

It was morning, and the wind was very strong outside, and the hem of the coat Ye Manmi was wearing was always picked up by the wind, which was the kind of dry and cold wind in the northeast winter, which was also called "big smoke bubbles" by the locals.

Ye Manmi, who was standing in the wind and was embarrassed, thought: No, such a cold day can't be delayed any longer, and I don't have the courage to go in or stay outside after a while.

Ye Manmi made her eighth attempt.

Like the previous seven times, she left the place first, pretending to take a walk around the neighborhood to relax her nervous mood, as if she had nothing, did nothing, and didn't think about anything, and then mustered up the courage to turn around and walk towards the gate of the Public Security Bureau...... Closer, closer, closer, but, seeing that she was about to walk in front of the tall and verdant Nanjing cypress tree at the gate, she couldn't move again.

It's all the same as the first 7 times.

Alas, Ye Manmi sighed in her heart: It is really not easy for a woman who has been self-closed for a long time to get out of the small circle of self-isolation.

However, it was at this moment that the deadlock was broken.

In the guard tower at the gate, an armed policeman wearing an olive green army coat walked towards Ye Manmi.

"Click, click, click, click......" The iron nails of the military leather shoes beat against the hard ground.

Ye Manmi didn't advance or retreat, she stayed there.

"Boom!" The armed police first saluted Ye Manmi.

"Auntie, are you in trouble?" The armed police spoke. Probably he had noticed this woman who was lingering at the gate of the Public Security Bureau for a long time.

Ye Manmi's heart was sad, the armed policeman was also 30 years younger, but he called me Auntie. Am I really that old? Too old to tell the difference?

Ye Manmi still nodded.

"Yes?"

"No, it's a reflection of the situation."

"What's the situation?"

"The circumstances related to the suicide of Maddie, the general manager of our company."

"Who are you looking for?"

"Look for Tang and Mei."

"Please wait a minute."

The armed police returned to the watchtower and called inside.

Ye Manmi was still waiting outside. Her heart lightened a little. In her life, she has never dealt with the Public Security Bureau. She thought to herself: No one can imagine that she will be in contact with anyone in this life, just like I didn't expect to be involved with Maddie. It's all a coincidence, if I hadn't worked in Yongtai Trading Company, if it weren't for the fact that General Manager Maddie deliberately wanted to arrange an ugly woman to be his secretary, if I hadn't had a voyeurism, if I hadn't been connected to his phone in series, then I really wouldn't have to deal with the police in this life, and I wouldn't have been involved in a complicated homicide case. But, sadly, these "ifs" are true.

The armed policeman stepped out of the watchtower.

"Auntie, the person you are looking for will come down immediately."

"Thank you." Ye Manmi thought for a while and said, "Don't call me aunt anymore, I'm only 46 years old." ”

"Ahh......h

At this time, Ye Manmi saw the policewoman named Mei coming out of the building.

Mei is wearing a police uniform today, which is a new uniform, Mei wears a waist on her body, shoulders on her shoulders, and her chest is a chest, and she is still beautiful with a sassy and heroic energy. Ye Manmi admired it from afar, and there was an indescribable envy in her heart. Ugly women are like this, they tend to appreciate beautiful women more than men, but this appreciation is often mixed with strong jealousy.

"It's Miss Ye, do you have something?" May said.

"I want to report an important situation to you."

"What's important?"

"It's about Maddie's death......"

"Oh...... Please go upstairs and say. ”

Mei led Ye Manmi into the office building.

Ye Manmi entered the Public Security Bureau for the first time and felt very curious. She looked around and saw that the office buildings of the public security organs and other organs were basically the same, a long corridor and offices large and small on both sides of the corridor. It's just that the signs hanging at the doors of the offices on both sides of the corridor are a little different.

The signs hanging in front of each door of other organs clearly indicate what department and what department, while the sign hanging in front of the office of the public security organ clearly indicates what department or department is hung at the door, and the rest of the signs are hanging with the signs of one department and two departments or 302 and 303. Probably for the sake of secrecy.

Ye Manmi thought: This kind of place is not for everyone to enter.

Mei led Ye Manmi to an office on the third floor.

This office is very large, with several desks, and some brown-red wooden and dark green iron cabinets, which are no different from other offices, except that the slogan on the wall, "Be lenient in confession, strict in resistance", the words are all black, and the strokes are very thick, giving people a sense of heaviness. Ye Manmi walked in, and she saw the policeman Tang sitting at a desk near the window.

Seeing Ye Manmi coming in, Tang stood up.

"It turned out to be you, Miss Ye. Have a seat. ”

Ye Manmi sat down nervously, although she finally walked into the gate of the Public Security Bureau, she was still very nervous, her legs were tightly together, and she felt dry mouth due to nervousness.

"Please Miss Ye for water." Mei brought a glass of water to Ye Manmi's eyes.

Ye Manmi took a sip, her mouth was dry, and her emotions seemed to be calmer. She looked at Tang and Mei, and the two policemen, a man and a woman, also looked at her. They were waiting for her to speak.

"That's right, comrade policeman......"

Ye Manmi began to talk about the purpose of her visit, and she spoke with great difficulty.

“…… Comrade policeman, I'm Maddie's secretary, you know. There is one thing that I wanted to tell you when you went to the company for a routine inspection that day, but I never made up my mind, because this matter is not only related to Maddie, but also to my personal reputation...... No, no, don't think about anything else, I have nothing to do with Maddie, we're purely a working relationship......"

Mei comforted her and said, "Miss Ye doesn't need to explain. ”

“…… Yes, I don't need to explain, I don't need to explain the way I look, Maddie won't take a fancy to me, no man can take a fancy to me. Ye Manmi continued: "You may know that I am a single woman, an old man*. Living alone is very boring, except for going to and from work every day, living at work and home, I have almost no amateur cultural life, and I have no hobbies...... One has to find some joy in life for oneself.

So, therefore, I thought of a way to relieve my boredom...... Every day, I am responsible for sending and receiving newspapers and letters from General Manager Maddie, whether it is official letters or private letters, I am responsible for sending and receiving, and they are all transferred to General Manager Maddie through my hands. Because of this convenience, I just, I ......"

"You stole Maddie's letter, didn't you?" Tang Tiye Manmi said this.

"Yes, yes, I stole Maddie's letter." Ye Manmi looked at the soup gratefully, and said the unspeakable words for her for him to be understanding.

"There was a letter from Maddie that day, I pressed it all day, and after getting off work in the evening, I took the letter of the day from General Manager Maddie home, secretly opened it, read it, and then resealed it, and put it on his desk before General Manager Maddie arrived at work the next day, and he never noticed it...... And it didn't stop there, I didn't just steal Maddie's letter...... I still...... I still ......"

"You're still tapping his phone?" Tang said her unspeakable words for Ye Manmi again.

"How do you know?" Ye Manmi was surprised.

"I'm just guessing that a person with a voyeurism can also meet psychological requirements by eavesdropping on the phone." Tang said.

Ye Manmi's face turned red all of a sudden, but she immediately calmed down, her ** had been revealed, and she had no scruples, and her language was fluent.

“…… Yes, I eavesdropped on Maddie's phone, because the phone in the office building is transferred through the switchboard, and my phone with Maddie is connected in series, and there are calls to Maddie through the switchboard, and they always call me first, and I ask Maddie, but he doesn't want to answer, so I say he's not there; If he wants to answer, I will transfer the phone to him, and when he is talking to someone, as long as I don't put down the phone, I can still hear what the other person is talking to Maddie......"

"So, what did you overhear?" May asked.

"It was the day before Maddie's suicide, an internal call came, it was a man, he said he wanted to find Maddie, I asked Maddie, Maddie agreed to answer, I transferred the phone to the general manager's office, but I didn't put down the phone, still eavesdropping, I heard the man say a very terrible thing to Maddie, at that time I just felt that I finally peeked into a big secret of General Manager Mai, quite interesting, I didn't think much about it, after Maddie's death I recalled this call, the more I thought that his death might be related to this man's phone, The two of you came to the company that day, and I wanted to tell you that I was afraid that you would be held criminally responsible for me stealing letters and eavesdropping on the phone, and I was afraid that my voyeurism would be known and ridiculed by my colleagues, so I didn't dare to come...... In the past few days, my mind has been fighting fiercely, to come, to come, or not to come, and finally I still feel that I should come, because after all, it is a matter of human life......"

Speaking of which, Ye Manmi looked at the two policemen and wanted to know how the police would react to her stealing letters and tapping their phones. The two cops didn't seem to notice her quirk, perhaps they were more interested in the mysterious call.

"What did the man say to Maddie on the phone?" Tang asked.

Ye Manmi didn't speak, and began to dig in her coat pocket, first took out a brown paper envelope, and then took out a square paper bag from the brown paper envelope, opened the paper bag, and saw that it was an audio tape.

She handed the tape to Soup.

"I forgot to mention that the phone I use has a recording device, just like the one on your desk. It turned out to be for the convenience of business phone recording, Maddie didn't expect to provide convenience for me to tap his phone, I often recorded his phone phone casually, took the tape home and slowly enjoyed it...... I happened to record the man's call to Maddie that day, and it's all here. Listen to yourselves. ”

Tang took the tape, put it in the recording device of the phone on his desk, and at the flick of a button, a conversation between a man and Maddie appeared.

Man: "Are you Maddie?"

Maddie: "yes, who are you?"

Man: "Don't care who I am!" General Manager Mai, I think you have already received those two letters. Why didn't you turn yourself in at the Public Security Bureau? I warn you one last time. If you don't turn yourself in today, I'll go to the Public Security Bureau early tomorrow morning to report the murder of your ex-wife seven years ago......"

Maddie: "Who are you?"

Man: "An eyewitness." ”

Maddie: "Can we meet?"

Man: "I don't want to see you." ”

Maddie: "I can give you money." Lots and lots of money......"

Man: "I'm not interested in money. ”

Maddie: "What are you interested in?"

Man: "Your life." ”

Maddie: "Don't be so unreasonable...... Hey, hey, hey......"

This is the end of the recording.

Apparently, it was the man who hung up first.

Tang turned off the recording settings.

There was a moment of silence in the office.

Ye Manmi looked at the two policemen uneasily, she didn't know whether she should provide the police with this kind of tapping tape, and she didn't know what consequences this kind of evidence she provided would bring to Maddie, the police and herself? At that moment, Ye Manmi suddenly remembered that the night she was eavesdropping on the phone call, she stayed at home alone, still playing the phone recording over and over again while doing steam beauty, she didn't believe her ears, she didn't believe that her immediate boss would do that kind of thing, and she didn't believe that there would be someone who would make this kind of call in her life.