"Do you think Hong Xinli's murder this time may be related to something earlier?" Huo Yan asked.

Ning Shuyi shrugged: "I'm not sure about it now, it's just like the evaluation that Kang Ge gave us.

This time, the progress of our investigation can be said to be seemingly smooth, but in fact, it has hit a wall at every turn.

The suspects with motives appear one by one, but either there is alibi evidence, or they do not conform to the style and modus operandi of this case.

So I can't help but wonder, could it be that the motive for the murder in this case is much deeper than we thought? Is there any information in this that we have not been able to grasp in addition to the grievances and grievances on the surface?

Originally, it was just such a superficial idea, but when Luo Wei helped us investigate, he found that Hong Xinli's household registration and identity were greasy, which was tantamount to confirming my original guess.

Among these people, maybe there is someone who is Hong Xinli's old acquaintance, and the friendship is not as simple as it seems on the surface.

I'm really interested in being able to keep Mr. and Mrs. Chen so secretive."

"Zhai Yujiang said before that Hong Xinli rarely mentioned things about her past studies, either talking about her childhood or talking about things during college, but in the years of junior high and high school, he talked to Hong Xinli, but Hong Xinli diverted the topic and didn't want to mention it." Huo Yan remembered the details mentioned by Zhai Yujiang, "Hong Xinli's reason for dropping out of school back then is definitely not so simple."

Ning Shuyi frowned: "Let's go back to Team Dong to communicate about this matter."

After all, it involved a new direction that was completely different from the previous investigation ideas, and Huo Yan also felt that it was necessary to ask for instructions, so the two of them went straight back, found Dong Weifeng, and communicated with him.

Dong Weifeng was also very interested in Ning Shuyi and Huo Yan's new idea, and was very supportive, even if he gathered everyone else together, held a brief meeting, arranged the tasks that everyone needed to do, and let them keep an eye on the every move of the target person they were responsible for, and report immediately if there was any change.

Ning Shuyi and Huo Yan were responsible for finding out Hong Xinli, or she was still showing her student status as Chen Meizi, looking for the teachers who taught her back then and her classmates to understand the situation back then.

It happened twenty years ago, almost twenty-one years ago to be exact, and it was not particularly easy to figure it out.

"What? Already deceased?" Ning Shuyi was surprised and a little disappointed when he heard what Huo Yan told him.

Huo Yan nodded, and also sighed: "The head teacher who was in charge of Hong Xinli was already fifty years old back then, and he left the year before last, and he had a cerebral hemorrhage and was not saved.

The other teachers in the school who taught her, after 20 years, have no memory of this student at all.

And because when Hong Xinli graduated from junior high school 20 years ago, social software was not as developed as it is now, so the school did not count the contact information of graduates, and their class did not have a class group on any platform.

Hong Xinli can't keep in touch with her past classmates if she changes her name and surname, so if we want to find her old classmates, we have to work harder."

Twenty years ago there is still a big difference between the present, although the Internet has risen at that time, but in terms of the degree of development, it is not at all comparable to the present.

Especially at that time, many people, although they have also begun to use some social software as a tool to connect with each other, but without the blessing of various "groups", it is like a mess of sand, only if the relationship between each other is good, it is possible to maintain contact for so many years.

Some may have been close in the past, but then they gradually drifted apart due to different life circumstances, and gradually lost contact and were separated from the crowd.

This situation is especially evident in Hong Xinli.

Ning Shuyi and Huo Yan contacted Zhai Yujiang again the next day and asked him

Tsai carefully helped to recall that during the two years of knowing each other, whether Hong Xinli had a close connection with any of her former classmates, or even if she was not close enough, she could have a connection.

Zhai Yujiang thought about it, but he still couldn't recall the slightest bit of information about Hong Xinli's middle school stage.

"Lili really never told me about her middle and high school!" Zhai Yujiang said to them helplessly, "I used to talk to her about my middle school days, and she heard that there was no match.

I did ask her afterwards what she was like when she was in middle school, and she said she didn't remember.

I remember that she was reluctant to take on this kind of talk every time, not only did she not want to talk to me, but she seemed to find it quite annoying to hear me say it herself.

Once I told her about my junior high school football team at school, she suddenly became unhappy, saying that the heroes don't mention the courage of the year, the more in reality, the older they are, the more they don't mix well, they especially like to recall the past.

I don't know if I accidentally mentioned something that upset her again, so I didn't talk about it again."

He sighed a little helplessly, and although he had tried to restrain himself, he still couldn't suppress the sad emotion: "Actually, she doesn't like to chat with me very much, and the two of us don't actually communicate much in any way.

She said that she came to me to figure me as a more down-to-earth and reliable person, not how much soul resonance the two of us had.

At that time, I was quite beautiful, and I thought she was affirming me.

When I think about it later, I feel very sad, my wife said it quite tactfully, but in the final analysis, doesn't that mean that I don't have any common language."

Ning Shuyi and Huo Yan didn't know how to comfort him, so they could only listen to him complain a few words and encourage a few words, but they really couldn't ask anything and couldn't force it, so they almost left.

Leaving Zhai Yujiang's side, Ning Shuyi felt a little emotional, every time she saw Zhai Yujiang, she would have this very complicated feeling.

"The life that everyone pursues is really different." She couldn't help but sigh and asked Huo Yan, "If there is someone you like who doesn't have any interest in you personally, but chooses to accept you and be with you because he covets your added value in some aspect, will you be happy and gladly accept?"

Huo Yan shook his head without thinking: "I don't have any added value for others to covet."

As soon as the words came out, he saw Ning Shuyi casting a condemning gaze, Huo Yan realized that he had said such a self-denial thing again, touched his neck, and smiled weakly.