Qi Yi didn't care about Fang Yongping's psychology, so he returned to the topic and asked who spread the rumor in the first place. Unfortunately, because too much time had passed, his memory was blurred, so he only reported a few names, saying that they were all spreading the rumor at the beginning, but not

It is not certain who specifically said it, nor who told him the news.

But this was enough. Qi Yi wrote down the names and sent them to Luo Youyong and Xiao Qin, asking them to focus on checking these people.

Looking at the time, it was almost noon, and Fang Yongping could not find any more clues. Qi Yi closed his notebook and said, "Just come here first, leave a phone number, and don't leave the main city in the near future. We may contact you again."

.If you think of any key clues, please call us as soon as possible."

"Okay!" Fang Yongping nodded repeatedly: "Please, Officer Qi."

"It should be." Qi Yi responded, called Lao Chi and turned to leave.

Lao Chi hooked Qi Yi's neck and said, "Awesome, you really managed to pinpoint the source of the corpse."

"It's just luck." Qi Yi shrank his head and took his hand off without taking any credit.

"It's not all luck. If you hadn't issued the investigation order..."

Qi Yi interrupted him: "Stop commercial flattery. I'm not sure whether the direction is right. I always feel that Fang Yongping doesn't look like the murderer... Anyway, let's collect information first."

Lao Chi sighed: "I almost forgot... I have something for you."

As he said that, he led Qi Yi to the office, took out a certificate and a medal from the drawer, waved it in his hand: "Second-class personal merit, in recognition of your detection of Chen Yitian's serial murder case. This time you got it quickly."

ah."

Qi Yi opened the box, and the gold-plated medal shone brightly in the light, and he couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth slightly.

It is a happy thing to be recognized.

"The city bureau originally wanted to hold a commendation meeting, but detachment Wang declined for you. He said that at the commendation meeting for the annihilation of Beigong not long ago, we both received first-class individual merit in addition to collective first-class merit. We have already appeared.

If you do it once, you will easily get jealous if you do it again."

Qi Yi deeply agreed.

After putting away his things, he returned to his office to put them away, hastily packed his lunch, and packed up his equipment to go to the factory where Xie Yinglan worked. He didn't want to leave all the tasks to Luo Youyong and Xiao Qin, not to mention he couldn't sit still when handling the case.

, thinking about taking Laochi with him to visit.

After one o'clock, the two arrived at their destination. There were two police cars parked outside the workshop of a medium-sized textile factory. Luo Youyong was leading people inside to make inquiries.

It is supposed to be lunch break time, but there is no such thing as a lunch break in a factory like this. As I was still outside the door, I heard the sounds of countless machines inside. It was not loud but very noisy.

Walking into the workshop, Qi Yi found Luo Youyong, who was questioning a middle-aged woman.

Qi Yi walked up behind him, listened for a while, and was a little disappointed. Although the woman still remembered Xie Yinglan, her impression was too vague. She was basically in a state of ignorance, and she probably couldn't dig out anything valuable.

Luo Youyong asked a lot of questions before letting her go.

"Qi...Qi team!" Turning around, he was so frightened by Qi Yi that his hat jumped up: "When did you come?"

"How was the situation just now?"

Luo Youyong looked a little resentful: "What kind of friendship can there be between colleagues? Most of them are just casual acquaintances. The impression of Xie Yinglan is already very vague. Many old workers do not remember this person and did not ask for any valuable information."

.”

"What about the cheating rumors?"

"There are some opinions in this regard, and some people are still impressed by it, but the impression is also not deep - there is too much gossip in the factory, and they are forgotten once they have been talked about. No one will hold on to the gossip of 'former colleagues' who have disappeared long ago.

Don’t let go.”

Qi Yi was silent.

The Internet has no memory and can only find some traces, not to mention these verbal gossips. It is really difficult to dig out key clues from two years ago.

Lao Chi interrupted and asked: "Where is the other protagonist of the rumor? Where did the line leader go?"

"He changed jobs. I heard he went to a leather shoe factory." Luo Youyong said: "He also moved. I don't know where he moved. I just asked the factory to provide the roster address book of previous years, hoping to find his contact information.

.”

The case is so old that many relevant people have to work hard to find it. Even if they are found, they may not remember much information. In addition, there is a large amount of evidence that has been lost to time, and suspects who may have fled without a trace. The case

The investigation is extremely difficult.

Time is the detective's best helper and also his biggest enemy.

After thinking about it, Qi Yi said: "Leave it to me. You continue to ask other employees and try to guide them to recall more details."

Luo Youyong has no confidence: "I will try my best."

Qi Yi found the person in charge of the workshop and identified himself. After waiting for another half an hour, the address book of past employees was finally found. Qi Yi found the name and number of the line leader in it - Shi Liangkang, a middle-aged man who was 41 years old.

He is nine years younger than Xie Yinglan.

He didn't change his phone number, so Qi Yi quickly contacted him and learned the address of the leather shoe factory where he worked, so he took Lao Chi and rushed there.

Outside the Yunjian Shoe Factory in Xinshang Industrial Park, Qi Yi saw Shi Liangkang. He was holding a cigarette in his mouth and his expression was not very good: "Officer, I don't know where you heard the rumor from. I have to emphasize it to you first.

I have nothing to do with Xie Yinglan, and I will never like a middle-aged woman who is nine years older than me."

He seemed to be getting angrier as he spoke, his face became darker than before, and he became more emotional: "I have my own family, and I have a very good relationship with my wife and children. This rumor has already caused me a lot of trouble.

As a colleague, I regret her death, but I don’t want to have anything to do with her anymore, let alone get involved in her family’s bad affairs. I hope you can understand!”

Qi Yi silently raised his suspicion a bit - he behaved normally, but as a criminal police officer, he is naturally suspicious of everything. No matter how legitimate the reason is, the more he resists investigation and contact, the greater the suspicion will naturally be.

On the face, Qi Yi nodded: "I believe you. In fact, I came to you this time not to investigate the relationship between you and her, but to find out who spread those rumors in the first place."

Shi Liangkang was stunned: "Huh?"

"As a person involved, you should know who is talking nonsense, right?"

"I know," Shi Liangkang's face softened a bit: "I switched jobs just because I thought they were disgusting... But I'm not sure who started spreading the news first. Over the past few years, some memories have become blurry.

.”

"It's okay, just tell me."

Shi Liangkang gave a few names and gave a brief introduction to these people. It could be heard that he did have a deep resentment towards them. He still had a deep impression on them in the past two or three years, and most of them had negative comments.

Unfortunately, no valuable information could be obtained through these introductions. Although Shi Liangkang was quite prejudiced against them, he could not remember what they had done. In order to prevent the direction from being taken astray, he interrupted Shi Liangkang and sent the list to Luo Youyong.

Changed the question: "I heard that after Xie Yinglan disappeared, her husband came to see you?"

Hearing this, Shi Liangkang's nose was so angry that he twisted his nose: "That critic actually thought that Xie Yinglan had eloped with me, and came to my house to demand an explanation, which almost caused my wife to misunderstand. What a jerk, this whole family is crazy,

Nothing good will happen if you meet them!"

"Du?" Qi Yi extracted the key words: "Why do you say that?"

He gave an explanation with a cold snort, and talked a lot, but he couldn't remember the specific examples to support it. He only had a rather stereotyped impression - Fang Yongping was a paranoid who had low self-esteem, was petty and accepted death, and Xie Yinglan was a...

A pretentious person who is vain, complains, and likes to brag.

Qi Yi thought that the couple's problems may have arisen after the truck rolled over and their family went bankrupt.

Taking note of this clue, Qi Yi brought the topic back: "Were you still in the original factory when Xie Yinglan disappeared?"

"Here." Shi Liangkang said: "After he came to see me, it took about half a month for me to change my job. I had already talked about the matter with Xie Yinglan, and the chattering dogs in the factory were still chattering away. I was tired of listening to it.

These bitches..."

Qi Yi interrupted his complaint: "Then do you remember who reported that Xie Yinglan had eloped with someone?"

"I'm really not impressed." He shook his head: "Let me think about it... I remember she didn't come to work for two or three days. The rumor in the factory was... Oh, it was said that she won the lottery and quit her job to become a rich wife.

Later, when Fang Yongping found me, I found out that she had eloped with someone else."

"Won the lottery?" The rumor is a bit outrageous.

Shi Liangkang tried to recall and said: "I can't remember exactly. It seems that it was Xie Yinglan who said it herself? She said she won 10 million, yes, that's what she said. At that time, we all thought she was bragging. She was really going to win.

Why do you have to work hard on a sewing machine in our factory if you pay 10 million? She can't make that much money even if she steps on the sewing machine until it smokes and dies."

The dusty memory was brought out, and his recollection gradually became clearer: "I remember that we said she was impatient at the time and said she would resign after receiving the money. As a result, she disappeared after two days."

This was an important clue. Qi Yi hurriedly asked Jiang Xiaoyu to check the lottery prize redemption records at that time. If she really won the jackpot and was killed shortly after winning the prize, then the murderer's motive was probably to seek money and murder.

Fang Yongping never said anything about winning the lottery, and he couldn't tell who specifically spread the elopement rumors. Shi Liangkang also said that he had never heard of Xie Yinglan eloping before Fang Yongping approached him, so Fang Yongping was highly suspected of committing the crime.

After calling Jiang Xiaoyu, Qi Yi looked at Shi Liangkang: "Thank you very much for the important information you provided. If the clues are confirmed to be true, we will give you a bonus."

"No, after all, it's a colleague. Although I don't like her, everyone is dead, so it would be good to help catch the murderer." Shi Liangkang waved his hand magnanimously, his face softened, and he smiled slightly: "Yes.

How much?"

"Not necessarily, it could be hundreds to thousands or even more. It needs to be evaluated." Qi Yi brought back the topic: "One more thing, how popular is Xie Yinglan in the factory?"

"Generally, I haven't heard of him getting close to anyone."

"Is there anyone of the opposite sex who has a more ambiguous relationship with her?"

Shi Liangkang: "If there is one, the person who is rumored to have an affair with her is not me."

"That's right...Speaking of this, why would someone say this? You haven't clarified it?"

"I've clarified it more than once, but it's useless. As for her... Haha, she hopes that others will spread the word that all the men in the factory like her, making her look very attractive and vain!" Shi Liangkang's expression darkened again: "

I don’t know how the rumor came out. I’m afraid she was bragging on her own? Her boss was impressed by her charm, liked her and pursued her. How honorable is it? Haha!”
To be continued...