"Aunt Li, in addition to Chen Hongmei's case, between 1985 and 1987, were there any suspicious people among the tenants who rented No. 157?"

Aunt Li looked at Xiuqin and said, "I can't think of it for a while." Xiuqin, think about it. ”

"When you mentioned a man between the ages of 56 and 58, my aunt and I remembered that man, and if you hadn't asked that, we wouldn't have remembered him. As for the other tenants, we didn't notice anything wrong. Xiuqin said.

A few people said goodbye to Aunt Li and Xiuqin, walked into Impermanence Lane, and walked towards the north alley.

Zhao Zimeng, Ling Hu Yunfei, Section Chief Min and Director Gu took the first step, and after Xiao Luhan sent the hot water bottle into No. 157, he quickly followed the four people, and Xiang Daimo walked out of No. 157 at the same time as Xiao Luhan.

When I walked out of the north alley, I saw a flashing neon sign across the street: "Customers often come".

The business of the bathhouse is good, from time to time people walk out of the bathhouse, and from time to time people walk into the bathhouse.

In late March, the weather in the south still has some cold, the winter is warm to prevent the spring cold, the men in the ancient city who have experienced the warm winter, at this time, want to soak in the bathhouse, lie down, in fact, there is not much dirt on the body, mainly to find the feeling of leisure and comfort. Because of the cold spring, the business of the bathhouse will get better and better.

There is a relatively deep alley on the west side of the bathhouse, there is a lamp with an iron cover at a height of three meters above the alley entrance, and an iron sign with white characters on a blue background is nailed to the place about one person below, and the three words "Chenjia Lane" are written on the sign. There is also a line of Arabic numerals underneath: "353-361"

The four of them followed Director Gu and Section Chief Min into Chenjia Lane.

It can be seen from the iron sign at the entrance of the alley that there are nine families living in the alley.

Director Gu stopped in front of the courtyard gate of a family: "This is it." ”

Director Gu knocked on the door three times.

A woman's shrill voice came from inside the door: "Who?" ”

"Is this Director Tao's home?"

"Lao Tao, someone is looking for you."

"Who?"

"I'm busy in the kitchen? You go and open the door. "The sound of the woman talking is the sound of washing pots and dishes.

After a while, there was the sound of slow footsteps.

The door opened.

Inside the gate is a small courtyard. In the doorway stood a man of about fifty years of age, with a pair of glasses perched on the bridge of his nose. He stuck his head out of the door and looked at Director Gu carefully.

Director Tao finally saw Director Gu's face clearly: "Isn't this Director Gu of the police station?" Was that gust of wind blowing you to my house? ”

"Director Tao, these are comrades from the Municipal Public Security Bureau, this is Captain Zhao, we want to find you a little bit of the situation."

Director Tao let a few people into a room - it should be a study, and in the middle of the study there is a set of sofas and two coffee tables, one long and one short. On the coffee table was a round iron box, and inside the iron box were some cigarettes.

Director Tao beckoned everyone to sit down, and handed the cigarettes to everyone, except for Zhao Zimeng, several other people took Director Tao's cigarettes.

"Director Gu, how did you find me here?"

"Director Tao, that's the case, we learned a situation at the south alley entrance of Impermanence Lane, Chen Hongmei is an employee of your unit, right?"

"She is a worker in the second warehouse storage team, is the case you investigating related to her?"

"Chen Hongmei rented a house at No. 157 five years ago, and during this time, someone saw a man in his fifties often running to No. 157."

"I've heard about the case of No. 157, and I heard that the deceased was a man in his fifties."

"Yes, later, this man stopped coming, and soon Chen Hongmei moved elsewhere, during this period, there was another man who came into contact with Chen Hongmei, and this man is Chen Hongmei's current husband."

"I understand what you mean, you are here to learn more about Chen Hongmei's situation, including her husband's situation."

"yes, that's what we mean."

The door of the study opened, and a woman in her forties walked in with a tea tray, she put the teacups on the coffee table one by one, and then walked out of the study and closed the door.

"Although Chen Hongmei is an employee of our unit, she is usually not under my control, I am in the store department, she is in the warehouse at the back, and we usually have less contact with each other, but I know some about her."

"Tell us about it."

"Her marriage is not going well, she has been divorced twice, and the reason is that God shouldn't have given her a beautiful face."

"It's a good thing for a woman to be beautiful, but if you don't cherish it, it's a bad thing." That's what 'red face and trouble' means. She has never had children, which is probably also a reason! Director Tao had something to say.

"How old is she?"

"Thirty-seven or eighteen years old, probably!"

"Can't she have children?" Lin Di Dao.

"She was a mess when she was younger."

Seeing that there were doubts in Zhao Zimeng's eyes, Director Tao took a puff of cigarette and continued: "Since you are investigating the case, then I won't shy away from anything, Chen Hongmei is really not good enough in that regard, flies like to bite rotten meat, and the problem is mainly Chen Hongmei." ”

"Maybe it's because she's been through a lot, she doesn't care what others say, what they think, she still goes her own way, although she has her third marriage now, she still doesn't want to repent - she still hooks up with other men."

"Doesn't her husband care?"

"The strange thing is that her husband is very good to her, and everyone thinks that they will not live long, but it has been five or six years since they got married, and the couple has no sign of divorce at all. The two previous marriages lasted just over a year — not even two years. ”

Is there an unbreakable bond between Chen Hongmei and his man?

Five or six years ago, wasn't it around 1986? Zhao Zimeng was very interested in this time.

"When did Chen Hongmei and the current man get married?"

"It was the second half of 1986."

Zhao Zimeng and Ling Hu Yunfei looked at each other for a moment, and this time was just after Chen Hongmei moved away from No. 157. Soon after coming into contact with two men at the same time, Chen Hongmei soon married one of them - what's the mystery here?

Since two men are jealous of a water-based poplar woman, this vinegar is on the rise, and once the emotions get out of control, the result can be imagined.

With Chen Hongmei's temperament and consistent style, she is unlikely to live a peaceful life, unless there is some special reason - two grasshoppers tied to a rope can't run away from you and me.

"What's even more strange is that Chen Hongmei's life has suddenly changed a lot." Director Tao's question is exactly the same as that of Aunt Li and Xiuqin.

"What's changing?"

Chen Hongmei and her husband actually bought a small yard. More than 30,000 yuan, the yard is about the same as the yard of the Che family, there are four houses, Hongmei bought early, and now, 80,000 yuan can't be bought. ”

"When did you buy the house?"

"It was the end of 1986."

Chen Hongmei's life has indeed changed a lot.

"Chen Hongmei's man also sold a motorcycle, called 'Big Shark', more than 10,000 yuan, and when she got off work, her man often came to pick up Chen Hongmei. The colleagues in the unit are very envious. ”

Chen Hongmei and his wife are very much like an upstart.

"What does Chen Hongmei's man do?"

"I don't know, the people in the unit say that they have made a fortune in business, but no one knows what kind of business they are, it stands to reason that doing business is a good thing! There is no need to deliberately conceal it, this kind of thing, if it were someone else, it would have been shouted all over the world a long time ago, but Chen Hongmei never mentioned what her man did for a living. Zhao Zimeng heard the meaning of Director Tao's words, and he still had some doubts about this matter.

"What's even stranger—" Director Tao changed a cigarette and lit it.

Zhao Zimeng looked at Director Tao's face intently, he was waiting for the next step.

"In the past, Chen Hongmei was always babbling in the unit, she couldn't hide three taels of oil in her stomach, and she was also very flamboyant, but in the past few years, she has suddenly become another person. As the saying goes: the country is easy to change, but the nature is difficult to change. A person's personality can change so much, unless something unusual happens. Director Tao's subtext is that there must be something else behind this change.

"Where does Chen Hongmei's family live?"

"I don't know, but it's definitely not in our area," Director Tao took two puffs of his cigarette, "so be it!" You go to find someone, she must know Chen Hongmei's situation. Director Tao saw an anxious look in Zhao Zimeng's eyes, and he looked at the clock on the desk, "Your work is very hard!" It's so late and you're still running outside. ”

The time on the clock is a quarter past eight.

"Director Tao, please speak."

"You go to Chen Hongmei's cousin, although they rarely interact with each other, they must know Chen Hongmei's situation, her cousin's name is Chen Hongxia, she owns a braised vegetable shop, and she lives on Qixing West Street - just at the westernmost end of this street, and the house number is "No. 583 Qixing West Street." ”

After saying goodbye to Director Tao, the six of them went to Qixing West Street.

Out of the alley, all the way to the west.

Qixing West Street and Zhonghe Street are as prosperous as Zhonghe Street, most of which are ancient buildings of the Ming and Qing dynasties. The shops along the street are brightly lit, and the streets are full of people.

A few minutes later, Director Gu stopped in front of a shop, which was a braised vegetable shop, with a few pieces of pig's head meat, two salted ducks, and a small half pot of peanuts in the window, and seven or eight customers standing in line in front of the store.

A woman in her forties was cutting pork head, with a greasy leather apron tied around her waist.

"Chen Hongxia, are you busy?" Director Gu walked into the store.

Chen Hongxia raised her head suddenly: "Director Gu, you buy pig's head meat!" Chen Hongxia glanced at the people in line, "There is not much pork head meat, I'm afraid you won't be able to buy it." ”

"Chen Hongxia, we have something to do with you."