Chapter 2019

In the living room, the gossip attribute in the old lady's heart seemed to be unbearable. It seemed that this was the normal attribute of the old lady.

Lu Weiwei moved closer, and asked softly, "Old lady, can you speak more clearly?"

"Understand a little more? To understand a little more, he, Wang Jiayao, seems to have a friend outside."

"What's that person's name?" Gu Chen asked subconsciously.

The old lady hesitated for a few seconds before slowly saying, "I don't know what it's called. How could he, Wang Jiayao, let me know about this kind of thing?"

"It's just that I also know something from Wang Jiayao's wife, by insinuating."

"The time, maybe when he and his wife divorced, he heard his lover complain a few words."

"That's when I found out that the two of them belong to different parties, Wang Jiayao's lover, and there are some unclear men outside."

"As for Wang Jiayao, he seems to have a friend in other provinces, and every time he travels on business, he will stay with that woman."

After the words fell, the old lady moved closer and said in a low voice: "I heard about it too, but what is the name of that woman? I really don't know. You can ask Wang Jiayao's ex-wife about this."

"Is it called Wang Xinyu?" As soon as the old lady's voice finished speaking, Gu Chen raised her head and asked her.

The old lady was stunned for a moment, scratching the back of her head and thinking, "This...you really have to ask Wang Jiayao's ex-wife about this."

"And let me tell you, his ex-wife also lived in Jiangnan City, but later remarried and lived on the other side of the city."

The old lady doesn't seem to know the specific situation, and Gu Chen can't jump to conclusions now.

Thinking of getting some information from Wang Jiayao's ex-wife, Gu Chen hurriedly asked, "Do you have a phone number?"

"Yes." Without thinking, the old lady quickly took out her elderly phone, and then searched in the address book.

After a while, the old lady turned on the phone screen in front of her and reminded her:

"Wang Jiayao's ex-wife is called Lu Haiyan, who is a real estate salesman. We usually have a good relationship, and I helped her pick up the child."

Listening to the old lady's explanation, Gu Chen had already recorded the phone call, so he quickly called Lu Haiyan.

Not long after, the other end of the phone was quickly connected, and a slightly polite female voice came from the other end of the phone:

"Hello, who are you?"

"I'm Gu Chen from the Criminal Investigation Team of the Furong Sub-bureau. Are you Ms. Lu Haiyan Lu?" Gu Chen cut straight to the point.

Lu Haiyan on the other end of the phone was taken aback for a moment, and asked cautiously, "Officer Gu, may I ask... what do you need from me?"

"Wang Jiayao is your ex-husband, right?" Gu Chen asked.

"That's right, we've been divorced for several years, what's wrong?" Lu Haiyan on the other end of the phone seemed to have an ominous premonition.

Gu Chen didn't hide it, and directly explained the reason:

"This morning, we found your husband hanged on Reservoir Hill."

"So, many things, we want to know something from you, and we hope you will come to Wang Jiayao's house immediately, and I will wait for you here."

"What did you say? Wang Jiayao is dead?" Hearing Gu Chen's words, Lu Haiyan on the other end of the phone also seemed to be shocked. …

Gu Chen could feel Lu Haiyan's rapid breathing even through the phone.

Gu Chen reminded, "Ms. Lu, is there a question?"

"No...no, how about this, you wait for me, I'm in a nearby real estate right now, I'll come right over."

"Okay, we'll wait for you."

The two also communicated briefly, and then they both hung up the phone.

However, when Gu Chen looked up at the old lady, the old lady seemed to be dumbfounded.

Previously, Gu Chen only said that he wanted to know something about Wang Jiayao from himself, but he did not explain to the old lady the fact that Wang Jiayao had died early in the morning.

But now, the old lady has learned this from the phone, and it seems that she hasn't recovered from her dazed state.

Seeing this, Lu Weiwei hurriedly reminded: "Old lady, old lady, are you alright?"

"Ah?" The old lady, who reacted a little slower, also trembled at this moment. After taking a deep breath, she said involuntarily:

"Police...Comrade police, I just heard from you that Wang Jiayao is dead? Is this really the case?"

"En." Gu Chen nodded slightly, confirming his remarks.

"Hey boy! What's going on here? It's all right, why did this person disappear?"

The old lady rubbed her face with her hands, as if she was also quite frightened.

But Lu Weiwei hurriedly comforted her: "Old lady, if you have any clues that you missed, you'd better explain it to us now."

"After all, when we found out that Wang Jiayao died on the mountain, he was hanging himself."

"Furthermore, there is no sign of being tied up with both hands, and there is no sign of fighting with anyone."

"So, so we judge that there is a high possibility of Wang Jiayao committing suicide."

"However, why did Wang Jiayao commit suicide? In this regard, we need to investigate in detail, and there must be no mistakes."

Looking up at the old lady, Lu Weiwei immediately lowered her tone and continued to ask:

"So, old lady, we also need your help."

"I know." The old lady clutched her chest at the moment, as if she was also quite frightened.

After calming down for a few seconds, she said: "I know, I will tell you."

"Okay." Gu Chen didn't want to embarrass the old lady. From the old lady's mouth, Gu Chen had basically guessed that it would be even more difficult to get information from the old lady.

But Wang Jiayao's ex-wife Lu Haiyan is different. The two were once husband and wife, and they should know each other's existence best.

From Lu Haiyan's mouth, perhaps more clues can be unearthed.

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Ten minutes later, an older white hatchback slowly stopped at the entrance of the corridor.

A woman in a professional suit got out of the car and walked directly towards the unit building without saying a word.

When the woman came to the gate, Gu Chen pushed open the door of the old lady's house, walked out and asked, "Are you Lu Haiyan?"

"Yes, I'm Lu Haiyan, what's the situation with Wang Jiayao? How could he do that?" Speaking of this, Lu Haiyan seemed to be very nervous.

From Lu Haiyan's eyes, Gu Chen could see that she was anxious.

Although the two are divorced, they were once husband and wife after all, Gu Chen can understand Lu Haiyan's mood at the moment.

"Why don't you go in and talk? Do you have the keys to the house?" Gu Chen said. …

"No." Lu Haiyan shook her head, and also replied:

"Since I divorced Wang Jiayao, I have to leave my child, but the house is left to Wang Jiayao."

"So after I left, Wang Jiayao also changed the door lock. I don't have the key to the house at all."

"Okay then." Seeing that Lu Haiyan couldn't open the door of the house, Gu Chen felt that perhaps Lu Haiyan did not have a key to the house.

Or, Lu Haiyan just wanted to prove that she had never been here by not having a key to her home.

After all, there are still a few pages torn out of Wang Jiayao's diary.

Could this be related to Lu Haiyan? Gu Chen is not clear yet.

So Gu Chen put on white gloves, took out the key from the evidence bag again, and opened the door.

Seeing this, Lu Haiyan was also very surprised, but just as she was about to step into the door, Gu Chen stretched out her hand to stop her: "Put on this, and this." Gu Chen prepared a pair of footwear, gloves and a headgear for Lu Haiyan.

Seeing the police's careful handling, although Lu Haiyan was puzzled, she thought about wearing these things to enter the room, perhaps to avoid leaving traces, so she agreed after thinking about it.

So the three of them stood at the door, put on their protective equipment again, and then re-entered Wang Jiayao's house.

From the moment Lu Haiyan entered the house, Gu Chen began to observe Lu Haiyan's expression.

But when Lu Haiyan walked into the hall, she found that a corner of the living room was already filled with all kinds of vacant bottles and cans.

This made Liu Haiyan quite curious.

But when Lu Haiyan walked to the door of several rooms, she found that the room was in a mess, she immediately put on a disgusted expression, shook her head and said:

"What's going on here? Has anyone been in the room?"

"Wasn't Wang Jiayao living here all the time?" Lu Weiwei asked.

"No, Wang Jiayao likes to be clean, and he will never make a mess in the room."

Lu Haiyan turned her head to look at the living room, pointed to the corner of the living room and said, "Look at this, what are these? Bottles and cans piled up into a hill."

"I don't know, I thought the house was collecting junk. I've never seen such a mess."

"Wasn't Wang Jiayao like this before?" Gu Chen walked up to Lu Haiyan and asked.

Lu Haiyan waved her hand and said, "No, although Wang Jiayao is a little unreliable, he still pays special attention to personal hygiene."

"A mess like this at home is almost never going to happen."

"Then does he have the habit of keeping accounts?" Gu Chen adjusted the angle of the law enforcement recorder and continued to ask.

"Bookkeeping?" Liu Haiyan was stunned for a moment, then said with a smile:

"He knows how to keep accounts? Are you kidding me? Wang Jiayao has never kept such things. How could he keep accounts?"

Hearing what Lu Haiyan said, Gu Chen immediately took out several accounting books wrapped in transparent evidence collection bags, and asked Liu Haiyan in front of him:

"Then the handwriting on it was written by your ex-husband Wang Jiayao?"

Also found the accounting book in Gu Chen's hand, Lu Haiyan was taken aback for a moment, and moved closer to observe carefully.

And Gu Chen took one of the copies out of the transparent evidence collection bag, turned it over to Lu Haiyan for inspection, and asked, "...

"You should understand these handwriting."

"No... that's right, the handwriting was written by Wang Jiayao, but he never kept accounts at all."

Looking up at Gu Chen, Lu Haiyan also wondered: "Could it be that after the divorce, I started to learn how to live?"

"Then does he have the habit of keeping a diary?" Seeing that Wang Jiayao was really different from the previous Wang Jiayao, Lu Weiwei hurriedly asked about the diary.

But Lu Haiyan also shook her head in denial: "I don't know, but I have known him for so many years, and I have never found that he has any habit of keeping a diary."

Hearing what Lu Haiyan said, Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei looked at each other, and both of them felt that something was wrong.

After all, the comparison of Wang Jiayao's life before and after the divorce seems like two different people.

This made Gu Chen somewhat suspicious, suspecting that Wang Jiayao seemed to have encountered something after the divorce.

Thinking of the two people's divorce experience, Gu Chen followed the principle of knowing Wang Jiayao's situation clearly:

"Then may I take the liberty to ask? Why did you and your ex-husband Wang Jiayao divorce?"

"Is...is this important?" Hearing what Gu Chen said, Lu Haiyan seemed a little embarrassed.

But Gu Chen nodded fiercely.

Lu Weiwei also quickly echoed: "This is very important for us to fully understand the cause of Wang Jiayao's death."

"Must...have to say?" Feeling a little embarrassed, Lu Haiyan began to falter when speaking.

But this just verified what the old lady said before.

According to the old lady, the reason for their divorce was that both parties were not loyal to each other, and the two had already been in a state of incongruity.

Therefore, this marriage came to an end.

But it seems a bit difficult to get Lu Haiyan to say it in person.

But seeing Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei's firm attitude, Lu Haiyan seemed unable to resist, so she could only sigh and shook her head helplessly:

"Actually, the main reason is the emotional disagreement. He has other women outside."

"Really?" Hearing what Lu Haiyan said, it seemed to match what the old lady said before, so Lu Weiwei hurriedly asked again:

"Is that woman also in Jiangnan City?"

"No, she's not in Jiangnan City, she's from another province." Lu Haiyan said.

"What's their name? How did the two of them meet?" Gu Chen asked while recording.

Lu Haiyan sighed, looked up at the ceiling, and said with a light smile, "It seems to be called...Wang Xinyu, right? I remember that name."

"Wang Xinyu?"

Hearing this familiar yet unfamiliar name, Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei were stunned at the same time.

This seems to be consistent with our previous survey again.

Gu Chen had already blindly guessed the other party's identity based on the old lady's reminder.

After all, as soon as Wang Xinyu escaped to the vicinity of the Rainbow Bridge, Wang Jiayao started buying snacks.

After being questioned by the police, he hanged himself on the reservoir mountain and died.

It seemed that Wang Jiayao's death had nothing to do with Wang Xinyu's.

But now from Wang Jiayao's ex-wife Lu Haiyan, the identity of the other party can basically be determined.

This made Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei gasp, thinking that they finally saw their relationship connected.

In this way, Wang Jiayao's death must have something to do with Wang Xinyu.

Seeing that Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei had abnormal expressions, Lu Haiyan asked weakly, "Excuse me, do you two know Wang Xinyu?"

"I've had contact with you before." Gu Chen nodded silently, and said truthfully, "Wang Xinyu is currently in Jiangnan City."

"What? Wang Xinyu is in Jiangnan City?" Upon hearing this news, Lu Haiyan was extremely nervous.

His face suddenly became extremely ugly.

From Lu Haiyan's expression, Gu Chen could see her panic and bewilderment.

However, after a while, Lu Haiyan seemed to realize that she had lost her composure, so she quickly calmed down and said to Gu Chen hesitantly:

"Officer Gu, why... why did this Wang Xinyu come to Jiangnan City? Could it be that she, Wang Xinyu, killed my ex-husband Wang Jiayao?"

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