Chapter 2018

Gu Chen took out the items in the drawer one by one and placed them on the table one by one.

However, what surprised Gu Chen was that there were only a few bookkeeping books in the drawer where important items were supposed to be stored.

The so-called accounting book, that is, an ordinary notebook, is just the words "accounting book" handwritten on the cover.

Gu Chen casually opened one of the books, which contained some living expenses, almost accurate to every aspect of life.

Looking at the time, Gu Chen discovered that Wang Jiayao had the habit of keeping accounts a few years ago.

Lu Weiwei came to Gu Chen's side, and said in amazement: "How can this Wang Jiayao know how to live? I think he knows how to live better than women. Looking at the accounts, I remember that they are neat and tidy, and there is even a record of going out to buy a bottle of water. "

Looking up at Gu Chen, Lu Weiwei said again: "But how can such a person live such a bad life?"

"I don't know either." Gu Chen shook his head and said in denial.

Of course Gu Chen didn't know, before he came to Wang Jiayao's home, Gu Chen was also curious about Wang Jiayao's life background.

And when I entered the house, I saw that the room was messy and hadn't been cleaned for a long time.

Gu Chen felt that Wang Jiayao's life was depraved, and he didn't seem like a person who could live a life at all.

But when Gu Chen found these accounting books, he had to record in detail the expenses down to a bottle of water.

Gu Chen is also a little embarrassed at the moment, feeling that Wang Jiayao's life seems a little weird.

You know, keeping living accounts, generally only people who are careful about life will do this.

But Wang Jiayao divorced his ex-wife, and even the child was sentenced to his ex-wife, which shows how unbearable Wang Jiayao is.

An accounting book gave Gu Chen a new perspective on Wang Jiayao's life.

In order to understand Wang Jiayao better, Gu Chen continued to flip through these account books.

It can be said that the records in the account books are basically based on diaries.

Sometimes a few days will be skipped, indicating that there is no consumption.

After reading two books in a row, Gu Chen couldn't find any clues, so he put the bookkeeping books aside.

Seeing that Lu Weiwei was still reading one of them, Gu Chen held the last one in his hand.

Oddly enough, the last thick notepad doesn't seem to be the same as the others.

The reason is that the word "account book" is not marked on the cover.

Gu Chen opened it curiously and found that it was a diary.

Or a weekly diary.

It seems that Wang Jiayao will write down some of his work insights in this notebook every few days.

And densely packed, many have been recorded.

Gu Chen flipped through and found that Wang Jiayao's records were mostly daily life, including some so-called complaints.

But generally speaking, Gu Chen can see from Wang Jiayao's diary that Wang Jiayao is a highly self-disciplined person who is very enthusiastic about his work, which can be described as love.

Seeing that Wang Jiayao used unglamorous words to describe his work experience, Gu Chen couldn't help shaking his head.

Lu Weiwei, who was on the side, was also affected by Gu Chen's micro-expression changes, and hurriedly asked Gu Chen:

"Junior Brother Gu, what is in your hand?"

"Wang Jiayao's diary records his work and daily life." Gu Chen said. …

"Then what are you talking about?" Lu Weiwei, who had already checked the accounting book, threw the accounting book aside.

Gu Chen looked up and thought back: "It's all boring things that can't be any more boring, including how much money his colleagues owe him, and the quarrel he met with some people on the road, all of which are recorded in his diary."

"Oh." Lu Weiwei said "Oh" and asked again: "Then what have you remembered in the past few days?"

Also reminded by Lu Weiwei, Gu Chen didn't check it carefully, but quickly flipped to the latest page.

However, what surprised Gu Chen was that in the latest page of the diary, a few pages were torn out, which made Gu Chen quite curious.

Lu Weiwei also noticed the clue, and quickly snatched the diary from Gu Chen, and said with a look of surprise:

"How did this happen? Why was the latest page torn off? Why did Wang Jiayao tear up these records?"

"Maybe he didn't tear it up." Gu Chen gave a new explanation.

Lu Weiwei said: "You mean, someone tore up Wang Jiayao's records. Maybe Wang Jiayao recorded something about Wang Xinyu in the records of the last few days."

"However, it was discovered in advance and the records were erased?"

"Almost." Gu Chen nodded slightly, but also pondered and said:

"Because I took a rough look. In Wang Jiayao's previous diary, he basically recorded even minor things."

"But within a few days before his death, all records were erased, which is a bit intriguing."

"It stands to reason that the records of the past few days should be quite helpful for our police to handle the case, but now, it has become our trouble."

"Damn it." Looking at the original clue, it suddenly disappeared. Lu Weiwei was so angry that she just wanted to complain, but suddenly remembered something?

So Lu Weiwei turned to Gu Chen and hurriedly reminded, "Junior Brother Gu, have you noticed?"

"The bizarre death of Wang Jiayao seems to be the same as Wang Xinyu left clues every time he appeared."

"Every time we were about to find Wang Xinyu, she would always be able to escape her shell, as if she had evaporated from the world."

Pointing to the diary in her hand, Lu Weiwei said again: "It's the same this time, think about it, if we find this diary and read what Wang Jiayao has recorded in the past few days, then we will basically know What happened in the past few days."

"But when we could basically find clues, the clues were interrupted again, and someone tore up these pages of records."

"Yes." After listening to Lu Weiwei's explanation, Gu Chen basically agreed with this statement:

"Perhaps it was not Wang Jiayao himself who tore off the pages of the diary, but someone else. It means that someone has visited Wang Jiayao's home in the past few days."

"Shall we ask Wang Jiayao's neighbor?" Lu Weiwei said.

"That's exactly what I mean." Gu Chen also echoed.

After completing the basic search of Wang Jiayao's house, Gu Chen put these accounting books and the diary into the evidence collection bag, leaving most of the other items untouched.

I plan to let the colleagues who come to support later search the house again to extract relevant fingerprints.

But before that, Gu Chen needs to know, who has been to Wang Jiayao's house in the past few days? …

When he came to the door, Liu Zhi was still pacing back and forth.

Seeing Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei coming out, Liu Zhi hurried forward and asked about the situation:

"Comrade police, have you found anything?"

"I found a few booklets, we need to follow up later." Lu Weiwei put away the evidence, and then asked again:

"By the way, Mr. Liu, have any guests visited Wang Jiayao's house in the past few days?"

"Guest? I haven't heard of it." Liu Zhi touched his bald head, trying to remember.

But after a while, Liu Zhi still shook his head and denied it: "There shouldn't be any. If so, he, Wang Jiayao, would definitely tell me, but he didn't."

"That's weird." Lu Weiwei rested her chin in thought, and also looked at Gu Chen.

Gu Chen said bluntly: "Thank you Mr. Liu for your cooperation, you can go back to work now, if you have any questions, we will contact you in time, and please cooperate after receiving a call from our police."

"Of course." Hearing what Gu Chen said, Liu Zhi immediately said there was no problem.

It seems that as long as he can get rid of his suspicion, he is willing to actively cooperate with others.

So after a few people exchanged a few words at the door, Liu Zhi turned around and left.

Seeing that Liu Zhi was about to leave, Gu Chen suddenly called him to a stop: "Mr. Liu."

"Ah?" Liu Zhi froze in place for a moment.

The body is also like a machine, turning around slowly, looking at Gu Chen: "Police... Comrade police, is there anything else?"

"Have you been here in the past few days?" Gu Chen said.

"Hehe, no...no." Hearing Gu Chen's remark, Liu Zhi immediately shook his head and denied it.

Gu Chen nodded silently: "You can go."

"Thank you...thank you, comrade policeman." After bowing to Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei, Liu Zhi turned around again.

But this time, he turned his head three times a step, for fear that Gu Chen would have to stop him later.

So Liu Zhi quickened his pace, and soon disappeared around the corner.

Lu Weiwei stepped forward and came to the side by side with Gu Chen. She crossed her arms and said curiously, "I mean Junior Brother Gu, do you think there is anything wrong with this Liu Zhi?"

"Yes." Gu Chen blurted out without hesitation: "Now, anyone who has had contact with Wang Jiayao is suspected."

"Damn!" Lu Weiwei sighed softly, and said helplessly:

"I feel that this Wang Xinyu is a bit powerful, but everyone who has come into contact with her seems to have no good end."

"It was Zhang Jun who sent her to the city bureau before, but now it's Wang Jiayao."

"Although we don't have enough evidence to prove that this Wang Jiayao had contact with Wang Xinyu, the two must have a close relationship."

"And the food that Wang Jiayao bought must have been provided to Wang Xinyu."

With a light sigh, Lu Weiwei said again: "So, wherever Wang Xinyu went, why did she feel that there were disasters everywhere, and what is she going to do?"

"Maybe you have your own reasons?" Gu Chen also speculated.

"Sorry? I don't believe it." Lu Weiwei shook her head.

It felt like everything seemed to revolve around Wang Xinyu.

Especially the rotting corpse that is still placed in the technical department of the Municipal Bureau, whose identity has not been confirmed so far. …

But Gu Chen already clearly felt that this rotting corpse had involved many related people.

Including the missing Wang Xinyu, including the missing Zhao Xiaohu, and of course Wang Jiayao who has hanged himself to death.

Will there be some bizarre events after that? Gu Chen can't judge now.

But at least, I currently have Wang Jiayao's bookkeeping book and the diary that is missing a few pages.

When they came to the old community, Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei began to look for insiders, and were going to get to know Wang Jiayao from the side.

I saw an old lady carrying vegetables and fruits, walking from outside at this moment.

Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei looked at each other, hurried forward and stopped the old lady.

"Hello, we are from the Criminal Investigation Team of the Furong Branch. May I ask if you live in this unit building?" Gu Chen pointed the law enforcement camera at the old lady who picked up vegetables.

The old lady stared blankly, looked at the police uniforms of the two carefully, then nodded and said in agreement:

"Yes, I live on the first floor."

"You live on the first floor? That means... you live opposite Wang Jiayao's house, right?" Lu Weiwei asked.

"Yes, you are here to look for Wang Jiayao, right? But he seems to be going to work today, so you should go to the reservoir to look for him..."

Seeing that the old lady didn't seem to be clear about the situation that Wang Jiayao had hanged himself.

Gu Chen looked around, and then said softly: "Old lady, can we discuss this matter in another place? We still have a lot of information about Wang Jiayao, and I want to know more about it with you."

"Ah? I understand?" Seeing that the two policemen seemed to have complex expressions, the old lady hesitated for a few seconds, and then hurriedly said:

"Would you like...how about going to my house?"

Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei looked at each other, then looked at the old lady at the same time and said, "Okay."

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Following the old lady, they came to the door opposite Wang Jiayao.

The old lady also moved slowly. She took out the key from her pocket, opened the door, and invited Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei to come in and sit down.

Seeing the two sitting on the sofa, the old lady put the vegetables in the refrigerator, then took out two cans of juice from the refrigerator, handed them to Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei and said:

"Drink something."

"thanks."

Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei took the drinks and put them on the tea table.

Only then did Gu Chen get back to business and said, "Old lady, please sit down first."

"Oh." The old lady was not restrained either, after all, this was her living room, so she sat opposite Gu Chen.

But Gu Chen cut to the chase and said, "Does the old lady live here alone?"

"That's right." The old lady lay on the sofa and said with emotion: "My wife passed away the year before last, so I live alone in this house."

"What about Wang Jiayao? How much do you know about him? Has he also lived here all the time?" Lu Weiwei asked.

"Well, he's lived here for a long time." The old lady took off her glasses, put them in her hands to wipe the lenses, and said in retrospect:

"I have been his neighbor for many years."

"Can you tell us about Wang Jiayao? What kind of person is he?" Gu Chen took out his notebook, ready to take notes at any time.

The old lady put the glasses on the bridge of her nose again, and said in recollection: "What kind of person is he? He should belong to the kind of person with a withdrawn personality?"…

"Anyway, he's not very talkative, especially when he's with strangers. He's very quiet."

"It's just an old neighbor like me, an old neighbor, he will talk to me more, and ordinary people don't talk so much."

"How about his personality?" Gu Chen asked again.

"Okay, he's a pretty good person, but his personality is a bit withdrawn, and everything else is normal." The old lady seemed quite happy to say good things about her neighbor.

But the information Gu Chen wanted was not these, so he said again: "I heard that he divorced a few years ago, and the child followed his ex-wife."

"But logically speaking, children usually follow their father. How did his marriage get to this point? Can you tell us about it?"

"Ah?" It seems that this is a very taboo question, the old lady obviously paused when she heard Gu Chen talk about Wang Jiayao's marriage.

But after a while, the old lady hurriedly said again: "You guys even know this? Did he do something wrong?"

It feels like it should be what I guessed, otherwise why would the police come to the door? And also looking for yourself to understand this introverted neighbor?

But Lu Weiwei waved her hand and denied it: "Don't worry about this, just tell us about Wang Jiayao's marriage, how did he get divorced?"

"He..." The old lady was about to speak, but seemed to hesitate.

After a moment of hesitation, the old lady looked at Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei, shook her head helplessly, and said with a sigh:

"Ham, it's his fault too. Back then, he and his lover met each other on a blind date, and there wasn't much emotional foundation between them."

"So after they got married, their very contrasting personalities began to emerge. Wang Jiayao is a very introverted person, while his wife is an extroverted person."

"So, at home, this Wang Jiayao is more like a gourd."

"I don't know how many times, I heard his wife complain about him, saying that he is like a log."

"I usually live with him, and I don't seem to be happy. Although his wife looks ordinary, she has a good figure and is good at dressing."

"So, naturally, it attracts some men from society."

"There are some gossips when people come and go."

"No...it's not you waiting." Hearing the old lady say this, Lu Weiwei suddenly felt something was wrong.

So he quickly asked the old lady for advice and said, "You just said that Wang Jiayao's lover provoked some other men outside, so there were some rumors."

"Could it be that this is the trigger for Wang Jiayao to divorce his lover?"

"Uh! Also... Let's count, after all, if there is a crack in the relationship, there will be conflicts to some extent." The old lady also said embarrassingly.

But Lu Weiwei hurriedly said again: "But, if the divorce was caused by this situation, why did Wang Jiayao's ex-wife take the child away?"

"It stands to reason that if Wang Jiayao's wife's misbehavior broke their relationship, then it stands to reason that Wang Jiayao should have the custody of the child, but why is it his lover?"

"This……"

It seemed that this was a difficult question to answer. The old lady was just about to speak, but she had some scruples.

He hesitated again and again, but he still refused to speak.

Gu Chen looked up at the old lady, and continued to remind: "Old lady, you might as well speak up if you have something to say."

"Okay... okay." It seemed that he didn't want to mention it at first, but the police had already said that, and it seemed that if he didn't explain it, the story would not be changed.

So the old lady took a deep breath, trying to calm down, and then said slowly:

"The relationship between the two of them broke down due to many factors, including his lover's ups and downs, and of course, Wang Jiayao's own asshole."

"You mean, Wang Jiayao also had something to do to his wife?" Gu Chen seemed to hear something tricky from the old lady's eccentric tone.

The old lady nodded immediately and said, "That's right, both of them actually have problems."

"He has a problem with his lover, and he, Wang Jiayao, also has a problem. And don't look at this Wang Jiayao, who is usually honest and honest with others, and is very good at living on a budget. In fact, it is not what we usually see."

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