Li Xiaoxuan looked around and found three more representative reports.

The first report is a case of a single woman missing in Hushan District, needless to say, ninety percent of it was done by the store manager; The second and third cases were a case of mutilation and a case of mass food poisoning, respectively.

Especially in the second corpse shredding case, the first reaction in his mind was still the store manager with sadistic tendencies, but at the end of the paragraph, the main culprit was actually caught by the police and sentenced to death with a reprieve.

Sure enough, the task at this stage was not so easy to deal with, and the newspaper failed to find a breakthrough clue. Xiao Xuan put down the newspaper, feeling a little heavy. However, he did not lose heart, because the fundamental purpose of Li Xiaoxuan's visit to this newspaper was to find local reporters and learn more from them, and reading the newspaper was just a temporary idea.

The young man was still busy in the store, and Xiao Xuan quipped: "Dude, aren't you a newspaper here?" How to sell books and CDs. ”

The former pursed his lips and said, "Please, the current newspaper business is very poor, and there are so many staff, so I can only find some other ways to make a little money." Otherwise, just by selling those boring publications, I would have drunk the northwest wind earlier. ”

It seems that no one is having a hard time......

There were fewer people on the first floor of the newspaper office. Xiao Xuan also walked into the house naturally.

Most of the space inside is used to sell books, he looked at a fat-faced man wiping the computer, and asked curiously, "Do you know what so many customers are doing here?" Do you have any promotions here? ”

The fat-faced man gave him a strange look. The light in the room shone brightly on the sweat stains on his chest.

"Today is the first day of the release of the new book by the famous writer Rainbow Demon God (pen name), and of course people are coming to buy his new book. And our bookstore does have an event - the first 100 people who pay for a new book will receive a photo signed by the author himself. He said, "Looks like you don't know this writer." He is quite famous and has a lot of die-hard fans in City A. No, the book is on the shelf in the middle. The man gestured to a cylindrical openwork bookshelf in the room.

Li Xiaoxuan stepped forward to take a few looks, and the stall hand said that he was not interested in this bestseller. He turned his head and asked the fat-faced man:

"Where are all your reporters now? To tell you the truth, I have something to do with them. Li Xiaoxuan's words were convincing, "I'll ask them about Chen Mei's news." ”

"Reporters are all out on duty." The fat-faced man said, "I also know Chen Mei, and most of the people in the society know her." When he said "Chen Mei", the fat on his face also shrank.

"But if you have anything important, you can go to the office on the second floor and talk to the editor-in-chief. Especially about 'Chen Mei'. ”

Looks like I'm doing the right thing! Li Xiaoxuan was happy in his heart.

Xiao Xuan hurried to the second floor. There were only two rooms, one with "Conference Room" and the other "Office", and he pushed open the door to the office.

"Squeak~"

In the office, several desktop computers are neatly arranged on the wall, and at the other end of the computer, an antique sandalwood desk is displayed there. The table was very clean and looked like it had been wiped down often. On the wooden chair next to the table sat a woman with amber glasses, her hair half gray, and her face wrinkled like a torn layer of mille-feuille.

"Is there anything wrong with you?" She whispered, "I'm the editor-in-chief and owner of this newspaper." ”

"I'm here to inquire about someone." Li Xiaoxuan hurriedly said, "If you have been paying attention to the restaurants in this neighborhood recently, you may know that a young woman named Chen Mei committed suicide. I'm here for her. He said the problem directly and succinctly.

"Oh."

The editor-in-chief's face was calm, and she inserted the pen in her hand into the pen holder: "I know this girl.... Well, she used to come here a lot to buy things nearby. Over time, I got to know the people in the store, and she always took the time to see me, an old fellow. Her neutral voice sounded like a spring breeze, and the indifference hidden in the depths of the words calmed Li Xiaoxuan's nervous heart.

She looked at the surprised look on Xiao Xuan's face and sighed, then poured a cup of tea and said:

"Don't be so surprised, young man. Although Chen Mei is dressed up in a foreign and sexy manner, she is a conservative girl who loves to read in her bones, she is optimistic and sunny, and everything is written on her face. She's really a good girl.

When we heard the news of her suicide three days ago, none of us in our society could accept this fact, and we were very shocked. It seems that you don't know Chen Mei before your death, let me tell you......"

The editor-in-chief listed many stories about Chen Mei, such as the fact that she would bring some food made by herself to the people in the club every holiday, and adopted a few stray cats with love, and even donated to some students who were in difficulty.

In the end, she said in a categorical tone:

"My colleagues and I didn't believe she would commit suicide, and we were almost 100 percent sure that there was something wrong with it, but after a few days of investigation, we found nothing.

Three reporters from our agency used their personal time to investigate this matter, but the process of investigation ran into walls everywhere, not only could they not find the forensic doctor who performed the autopsy on Chen Mei, but even many of the materials released by the police could not verify their authenticity. The strangest thing is her family, Chen Mei's sister is obviously very concerned about Chen Mei's death, but she suddenly shut up about Chen Mei's affairs overnight, and she ignored her when we went to the door, but let us eat a big closed-door soup. ”

"You can go directly to the police and ask about it." After Xiao Xuan heard the editor-in-chief's remarks, he became more and more sure that Chen Mei's death must be closely related to the store manager, "Or, you can write a related report to expose all this." ”

"Where is it so easy? Lad. ”

When the editor-in-chief heard this, he said angrily: "The police are not prisoners, just ask." Besides, we are not the families of the victims, so we are not qualified to ask about these things. As for writing a report, it is even worse, publishing a newspaper is not as simple as you think, you have to submit it to the relevant departments for review. We tried to write some stories about Chen Mei, but all of them were banned. ”

Perhaps the store manager used the money to dredge up the relationship between the relevant departments and blocked the matter to minimize its impact.

"Can you tell me the address of Sister Chen Mei's house?" Xiao Xuan thought for a while and said, "The address of her relative's house is also fine, I am very interested in her affairs, although I am not a reporter, I also want to join the ranks of the investigation." ”

"This ...... This is definitely not possible, people's addresses belong to personal privacy, how can I disclose them to you casually. The editor-in-chief rejected Li Xiaoxuan.

Xiao Xuan stared at the gray-haired editor-in-chief in front of him seriously, slowed down his speech, and said sincerely: "This address is really important to me, I hope you can think about it again." Let's all want to find out the true cause of Chen Mei's death as soon as possible. One more person investigating, one more effort. ”

The atmosphere calmed down.

"Well, I agree. However, you have to make sure that you don't leak your address. The editor-in-chief spread his hands, took off his glasses and said helplessly.

"Whew, of course."

She thought about it for 3 minutes, but Li Xiaoxuan felt like a century had passed, but fortunately, she still had to get to the exact address.