Only you are so different
Chapter 4 All the answers are as dark as morning fog
Chapter 4 All the answers are as dark as morning fog
It happened to be lunch time when they got off the bus, Su Xiuran had a bad stomach, and eating on time is a necessary habit, so they had to eat first.
Su Xiuran cooks lunch, and the dishes are first-class in taste. He is not proud of himself as a man who can cook good dishes, but politely but thoughtfully invites Lin Mei to taste his cooking.
After more than an hour, when they were sitting on the sofa drinking tea, Lin Mei finally couldn't help asking: "Where did I go wrong? Can you tell me?"
Su Xiuran smiled slightly, and Lin Mei saw the expression he showed in the office in the morning: although he was smiling, there was some indescribable sadness and loss in his eyes.
Lin Mei intuitively felt something bad: "You mean Zhang Lili is in danger?"
Su Xiuran did not answer directly, but said gently: "Since you know the methods of deductive reasoning, you must also know that in the reasoning of specific events, it is often not just a certain method, but Several methods are used together.”
His speaking speed was originally slow, but now he slowed down, and it was even more like the timbre of a cello, with a deep and soothing charm.
He continued slowly like this: "Then take a certain fictitious murder case as an example. A female victim was murdered in her own home. She was small and thin and had no special physical training. Such victims are generally Weak, so she was successfully killed in a short time."
When he said this, he stopped and looked at Lin Mei.
Lin Mei came to her senses and answered, "This is a syllogism."
Su Xiuran nodded approvingly, and said: "The victim was hit on the head with a blunt object, such as a heavy hammer, and died. A person who can use such a blunt object should be very tall, so the murderer is a tall man. Strong people."
Lin Mei thought for a while: "This is hypothetical reasoning."
Su Xiuran nodded, and continued: "After investigation, we found that the three suspects with the most motives are one thin and sickly, one with paralysis of lower limbs, and one tall and strong. Then the investigation will focus on delineating the third suspect."
Lin Mei has already reacted quickly: "This is selective reasoning."
Su Xiuran smiled: "Yes, this is just a very simple reasoning process, the most basic evidence points to the most likely suspect. But when there is no conclusive evidence to prove that the third suspect is the murderer, it is just an inference.
"Especially... people who are thin, sick and paralyzed, there is absolutely no way to use a hammer to kill people? Not only that, these three people are only the suspects who were discovered, and there are even the fourth and fifth suspects. exist.
"Among all the inferences, only the first inference is actually established, that is, the female victim is relatively weak and relatively easy to be killed."
Hearing this, Lin Mei suddenly realized: "So you say that my reasoning is wrong, because I presuppose a big false judgment - that is, all this is caused by the lost notebook. And this judgment Is it wrong?"
Su Xiuran nodded: "You are my editor, and you are too concerned about my affairs, and in this whole incident, the first anomaly you noticed was the loss of the laptop, so your attention is too much here There's nothing wrong with that."
Lin Mei was penetrated to this level, and her brain was running at a high speed, so she ignored his sentence "too concerned about my affairs".When she thought of something, she looked at Su Xiuran in surprise: "You mean...the disappearance of Zhang Lili may have nothing to do with the loss of the laptop, and even the loss of the laptop has nothing to do with your manuscript in it." It doesn't matter?"
Su Xiuran smiled: "You are most concerned about the lost outline, so you ignore the most likely direction. If the police investigate, they will consider the whole matter from a more obvious starting point, so I am not worried The police can't find out the truth... just some details, if the police ignore it, I hope you can find a way to tell them."
Lin Mei didn't understand for a while: "The most likely direction?"
Su Xiuran nodded: "Zhang Lili has been confirmed to be missing now. After so many days, whether her personal safety is guaranteed is already in doubt. Although I am not underestimating myself, I feel that the weight of my manuscript outline is not enough to make the criminals not hesitate to hurt her." A person has to take a desperate risk... Such incidents usually involve more and more amazing capital, or enough important secrets to overshadow the amazing amount of capital."
Lin Mei was taken aback for a moment, and then realized: "Yeah, ever since Zhang Lili disappeared, I felt that the whole thing was wrong, even if it was true that she stole your outline, if she was caught, it would only be the crime of theft, and there is no point in absconding. "
The penalty for the crime of theft is not heavy, and the lost things are not many, and the nature is not bad. Xingwen Books did not forcefully demand that it must be recovered, and the police did not allocate much police force to investigate. Judging from the current situation, most of them will not succeed in the end. Let it go.
Su Xiuran nodded: "So even if she stole the computer, there are other people behind her, there is no need to cause her disappearance."
If the assumption that Zhang Lili disappeared because of a stolen laptop is ruled out, then the next thing can be easily figured out. Lin Mei said in surprise, "If it's not because of the company, then what is it?"
Su Xiuran still didn't answer, but continued: "After listening to your investigation, I guessed that the loss of the laptop might have nothing to do with my manuscript. After I went to your office to read it today, I'm absolutely sure."
Lin Mei felt that her eyelids were going to twitch: "You have been there for such a short time, what can you tell... Don't tell me that I have different IQs and can't talk, I will be angry."
Hearing what she said, Su Xiuran also laughed a little: "I made an inference before I went to the scene. It was only to confirm my guess, so it was so fast."
He said, put down the bone china teacup in his hand, looked at Lin Mei more intently and said: "After I entered the corridor leading to your office from the front desk, I found an emergency exit passage on the side of the corridor. but like many office buildings, this door has a pane of glass in the upper center."
Lin Mei also remembered: "Yes, there is indeed a fire escape there."
Su Xiuran said again: "I looked at all your office areas and found that they are all non-smoking areas, even the lounge is no exception."
Lin Mei nodded: "That's right, smoking is prohibited in the entire building, and smoke detectors are even installed in the bathrooms. I have heard colleagues who smoke complain that it is not okay to hide in the bathroom."
Su Xiuran slightly hooked the corners of his lips, with a somewhat expected expression: "It hasn't been many years since city B has banned smoking indoors, and most smokers haven't developed a good habit. I guess someone will find a way to find a place to smoke, I just looked through the glass on the door of the fire exit in your office, and saw a few cigarette butts thrown on the ground of the passage."
Xingwen Books is on the [-]th floor, and going downstairs to smoke is a little troublesome. When he said this, Lin Mei also remembered that there were colleagues who smoked and would go to the fire exit to smoke.
As for why the fire exits that are supposed to be locked are allowed to enter and exit?That's a better explanation. The key there is kept at the front desk, and any colleague can say hello to use it, as long as it is returned after use, it will be no problem.
Speaking of this, Su Xiuran paused: "Since there are people going in and out of the fire escape on weekdays, the person who took the computer may not be someone inside Xingwen Books... but a staff member on a floor similar to the [-]th floor .”
Lin Mei thought about it. Although the security checks for entering and exiting the entire office building are very strict, it is not difficult to communicate between floors. As long as you can enter the fire escape from other floors and exit from the fire escape on the [-]th floor, It's very simple.
Su Xiuran kept looking at her, but Lin Mei didn't notice that his gaze was too focused, she just nodded while immersed in her own thoughts.
Su Xiuran smiled calmly: "I stood at the window and found that the glass wall of the opposite building would reflect light according to the intensity of sunlight. The stronger the sunlight, the stronger the reflection. It was around ten o'clock in the morning, and it was already able to reflect The shadow inside this office building, if the sunlight is stronger, can reflect the situation in your office quite clearly."
Lin Mei suddenly thought that sometimes when she was in a daze in the office, she liked to peek at what people were doing on the upper and lower floors from the shadow on the glass of the opposite building, and cleared her throat embarrassingly.
Su Xiuran smiled: "You told me that the day the laptop was lost was sunny and that it was lost during a noon dinner, then if someone was standing on a floor similar to the seventeenth floor, they could have observed people from your company leaving."
"That makes sense." Lin Mei touched her chin and nodded, "That day, people from other floors saw that the people in our office had almost left, so they came up from the fire escape and stole Liu Han's laptop?"
Su Xiuran shook his head: "You also told me a detail. Liu Han walked in a hurry that day, and he put the laptop on the table, and it might fall to the ground...His neighbor is Zhang Lili. That person The target may not be Liu Han's computer."
"It belongs to Zhang Lili?" Lin Mei unconsciously opened her eyes that were already wide open due to concentration, "What is the value of her computer, and someone will come here to steal it?"
Su Xiuran smiled and shook his head: "Whether it is valuable or not, there are different answers for different people... Zhang Lili's computer may contain a secret that someone absolutely does not want to reveal."
When he said this, he looked at her and asked softly: "Your position is just behind Zhang Lili, please recall... Is there any sign that she is having a secret relationship?"
If the details and analysis laid out above only slightly cleared the fog that covered Lin Mei's eyes, then this sentence really split her chaotic thinking like a lightning bolt.
Does Zhang Lili have a secret relationship?You can say yes, or you can say no.
When she was in the office, she did not hide the interaction with that person: she could talk for 10 minutes on the phone as if no one else was there, with an intimate tone; after lunch break, she would often come back with some small gifts, such as a few delicate cakes and a bottle of perfume , a pair of earrings.
Lin Mei sat right behind her and saw more.During working hours, Zhang Lili also often uses instant messaging tools to type and chat with someone.
Lin Mei didn't have the habit of peeping, but Zhang Lili chatted too much, and zoomed in on the screen without covering it up. Occasionally, when she glanced over, the screen was filled with words like "dear" and "husband".
But Zhang Lili kept claiming that she was single. On Valentine's Day last month, she shouted that she didn't have a boyfriend for the holiday, but she went downstairs and brought up a bouquet of roses.
Lin Mei saw all these things, but Zhang Lili never admitted that she had a boyfriend in front of her colleagues. When the police came to the office to investigate, Lin Mei naturally couldn't say too much, and could only say that she didn't know if she had a boyfriend.
The attitudes of other colleagues are similar to hers. Zhang Lili is temporarily missing. If someone is found in a few days and comes back to work, she will know that the colleague has leaked her privacy to the police. How will she get along with her in the future?
But facing Su Xiuran at this moment, Lin Mei didn't hold back, and told him everything she knew.
Su Xiuran nodded, with an unexpected expression, but more of a faint sense of sadness.
Although Lin Mei and Zhang Lili were not on good terms, they were colleagues who had worked together for three years. Seeing him like this, she felt inexplicably flustered, and hurriedly asked, "Do you think something happened to Zhang Lili?"
She was a little bit regretful. The police came to investigate two days ago. She should have told the police that Zhang Lili might have a boyfriend, and he was probably also a staff member in this office building, instead of worrying a lot and keeping silent.
Su Xiuran saw the remorse on her face, and said softly, "According to the timetable, when you called the police, Zhang Lili had been missing for more than 72 hours. If something really happened, it would have been over already."
Having said that, Lin Mei still felt a little uncomfortable, Su Xiuran looked at her, and then said: "If you want to make up, it's not impossible, I see that there is a cabinet with drawers under your desk .”
Lin Mei nodded: "That's right, each of us is equipped with a low cabinet, which is integrated with the desk. There is a lock on the top of the cabinet. It is inconvenient to take out the office and more important things can be locked inside."
Su Xiuran nodded and said he knew: "Let's not talk about Zhang Lili's low cabinet, of course she locked it. The seat next to her is Liu Han's. Liu Han has resigned, so he should empty the low cabinet and put the key in the cabinet lock for convenience. The person who replaced it will use it, but today I saw that the cabinet under Liu Han's desk was locked."
Lin Mei said "Oh" and suddenly realized: "Isn't Liu Han often here with you? He has very few things in the office. I remember Zhang Lili seemed to say that there are too many things to put down. If he wants to borrow his cabinet, Liu Han should Freed up my own cupboard for her to use."
Su Xiuran smiled: "If the police's investigation has new progress and Zhang Lili's items need to be collected, you can tell them about it." He paused for a while, "If you're lucky, the items inside may be traced back to her. Who is the person in love?"
Lin Mei said that she remembered it.Just thinking that Zhang Lili's whereabouts are still unknown, I can't help but feel a little melancholy.
Su Xiuran got up and went to the bar to pour her freshly brewed coffee, as usual with milk and no sugar.
Lin Mei got up and took the coffee to thank her, took a sip, and the rich aroma filled her mouth. She only mentioned her own taste once on the first day she knew him, and the coffee that Su Xiuran made for her every day after that, Never went wrong again.
He might even have observed her expression after drinking the coffee, and adjusted the coffee accordingly. Every time the coffee was handed to her, no matter in terms of strength or aroma, it was more and more in line with her taste buds.
Working with Su Xiuran for two weeks, Lin Mei gradually understood Liu Han's mood, and why Liu Han spent every day working at Su Xiuran's office - Su Xiuran is a very amazing person, as long as he is willing, you can stay with him When you are together, you will be very comfortable and at ease, everything is ironed and reasonable, and you don't need to spend a little more time thinking about it.It is not an exaggeration to say that it is like a spring breeze.
At this moment, she put down her coffee cup and looked around. Just now, she realized how outstanding Su Xiuran's observation ability is. Now when she looks around this residence, she has a new experience.
This home is of course very tidy, and it is not wrong to describe it as spotless. Since she first stepped here, all the furnishings and items seem to have not changed in any way, even the magazines on the bookshelf, except for two new ones. Except for the period, the placement of the others has not changed.
Except for the ubiquitous green plants, there are hardly any purely decorative items, and everything is too well organized.Lin Mei also found that since she realized that she didn't like to play games, the PSP that had been placed under the coffee table and charged had long been put away and replaced with a tablet, which was a mini model more suitable for women's palms. .Because no password was set and the location was convenient, Lin Mei used it to look up information several times, and also used it to browse some news and electronic magazines.
After she realized these details, she couldn't help smiling and said to Su Xiuran: "No wonder you saw so many details once you went there, I just found out that your home is too tidy, and this place can be used as a model room anytime! "
Su Xiuran smiled slightly: "Every morning before nine o'clock, there will be cleaning staff who will come to tidy up, but the details are indeed requested by myself."
With a little fanatical worship of "the great god is indeed the great god", Lin Mei sighed: "Are you a Virgo? This is simply obsessive-compulsive disorder."
Su Xiuran obviously understood what "Virgo" meant, and said with a smile: "Thank you, it's not."
Lin Mei raised her eyebrows, obviously not very trusting: "Master, you are so amazing, you can see so many details with a pair of electric eyes, so what can you see from me?"
With a smile on Su Xiuran's lips, he hesitated for a moment: "Do you really want to listen?"
Lin Mei nodded generously: "I don't have any shady secrets."
The smile in Su Xiuran's eyes was even worse. He put down his teacup, clasped his slender fingers, looked at her and said, "Then I've offended you. From what I've known about you in the past two weeks, first of all, you are from City S. Since You are very familiar with the pronunciation habits of the local dialect, and you can tell from the eating habits. The most important thing is that when you asked me if I was from S City, you had the tone of an old acquaintance in a foreign land. "
This Lin Mei has nothing to hide, and she had expected it earlier, she nodded: "I was born and raised in S City, so it's easy to see."
Su Xiuran smiled and continued: "Secondly, you should live in the north of the western district. One night last week, there was only a little rain in that area of city B. When you drove here the next day, you didn't have time to wash the car. There are obvious signs of rainwater - this can also prove that there is an outdoor parking lot where you live. Once you called me at home before driving. It took 34 minutes. Combined with the road conditions that day, I can basically Determine which neighborhood you live in."
Lin Mei curled her lips: "If you want to know where I live, you can just ask."
Su Xiuran's smile remained unchanged: "I prepared a tablet for you because one time when you took the laptop out of your bag, you brought out a data cable for the tablet, and that kind of data cable does not match your mobile phone. , so I guess you should have the habit of using a tablet, but you don’t take it out often.”
Lin Mei felt a little moved by this incident: "Yes, I want to thank you for this, you are really considerate."
Su Xiuran's gaze suddenly became a little playful: "Judging from the fact that you also come to work overtime at my place on weekends, and from the details you usually show, I judge that you are single... from your casual attitude towards men , and it can be seen that you have probably never been in love."
Lin Mei immediately raised her hand in a gesture of stopping: "Master, don't talk about it, it's an invasion of personal privacy!"
It's not a crime to have never been in a relationship, but Lin Mei's cheeks are still a little red. Although she can't compare with Su Xiuran's slender figure, she is considered tall among women.She has a beautiful face, no matter when she is studying or after work, there is no shortage of suitors, but she has never been able to feel similar to love for any man, so she has always been single.
She was still a little aggrieved when she thought about it, and said to Su Xiuran: "After talking for a long time, what you observed is just some very ordinary things."
Su Xiuran was very calm: "Because you are a person who has no secrets, so I don't see anything particularly unexpected."
Dare to blame her for being too ordinary?Lin Mei originally thought that when she came to Su Xiuran's house every day and saw many of his living habits, she must know him better than herself. Now it seems that although Su Xiuran is calm, she has already observed her carefully.
Thinking of this, she felt a sense of frustration: getting along with the reasoning writer day and night is really too stressful, and if one day she really does something shameful, she probably won't be able to hide it even if she wants to.
Su Xiuran looked at her aggrieved expression, probably in a good mood, and smiled with his lips hooked so that the corners of his eyes drooped slightly.
Not surprisingly, Lin Mei was dazzled by his rare bright smile again, she looked at the crimson tea soup in the white bone china teacup in his hand, immediately took it to heart, and smiled maliciously: " You are so good at making coffee, why don't you drink it yourself?"
Su Xiuran responded with a smile, and spoke cautiously: "I prefer black tea."
Lin Mei continued to laugh cunningly: "It's because I'm afraid of suffering..."
The radiant male god still had a gentle smile, so bright that it could directly lower the opponent's IQ, but there was a trace of undetectable wavering in his eyes: "It's okay."
Lin Mei laughed unceremoniously, feeling that she had managed to regain a victory.
Today Lin Mei stayed at Su Xiuran's house until very late, and stayed to have dinner, and supervised Su Xiuran's taking of medicine by the way.
In order to repay Su Xiuran for her kindness and care, she prepared a dessert for Su Xiuran, who is "fearful of suffering", a box of butter cookies baked by herself at home, completely customized according to Lin Mei's own taste, so sweet that it is sad .
Su Xiuran only ate one piece to show he was okay, and then drank a lot of water.
Lin Mei leaned her head on the side to look at his side face, which looked like it was cut out of a painting, and his Adam's apple sliding up and down. She didn't feel that it was impolite for her to stare at others so blankly, but she was a little sad : "Master, you said that you are afraid of both bitterness and sweetness, what is suitable for you to eat?"
Su Xiuran put down the water glass in his hand, curled his lips into a smile: "Moderate."
Lin Mei secretly slandered him for being too particular, so she took a cookie and threw it into her mouth, the sweetness was just right, every bite would taste like happiness, right?
This was the last time she stayed at Su Xiuran's house. Su Xiuran sent her out, and he stood outside the carved railing watching her car drive away slowly.Lin Mei had already driven a long way, and he could still see his figure standing quietly under the streetlight through the rearview mirror.
Seeing the small car turn around, even the red taillights disappeared, Su Xiuran stood for a while before turning back to go home.
The entrance and living room were still brightly lit, but after one person was missing, it suddenly became colder, and even the surrounding temperature seemed to drop.
There was a short but majestic "meow" at his feet, and Su Xiuran lowered his head, only to realize that at some point, Chun Shenjun had already run up to him, and stared at Yuanyuan's eyes quite seriously. watching him.
Su Xiuran couldn't help laughing: "I'm sorry, I forgot your dinner."
He went to fetch the canned cat food, opened the bottle cap and poured it into Chunshen Jun's food bowl, and replaced it with a bowl of clean water. Chunshen Jun was finally satisfied with the servant's service, so he went to his feet and rubbed it a few times. Below as a compliment.
Su Xiuran squatted down, touched Chun Shenjun's head, and felt the temperature of its small and furry head rubbing against his palm.
With the food in front of him, Chunshen Jun gave him a rare face, raised his head and touched his palm to show his affection.
Su Xiuran slightly bent his lips and smiled. His smile was slightly different from Lin Mei's. Although it was just as gentle, his eyes revealed some thoughts that were hard to see clearly. He said softly: "Are you looking at me too Lonely, that's why you come to accompany me?"
Chunshen Jun ate the fish, and wagged his tail twice, not sure if he was impatient or in response.
As if thinking of something during the day, Su Xiuran's smile softened a bit: "Maybe you think I'm too sensitive, but I'm beginning to feel that her appearance...is a gift given to me by fate."
Chun Shenjun let out an indistinct purr, turned the cat's head and left his buttocks for him.
Su Xiuran, who is noble and good at detecting other people's emotions, acted as if he hadn't seen it at all. Instead, he stroked its cat's tail twice, and continued to sigh softly, with a faint brilliance in his eyes: "Maybe you want to say that I It's just that I've been lonely for too long..."
If Lin Mei was present, she probably couldn't help complaining: God, you are a person with such a high IQ, is it true that you can talk so deeply with a cat?
Before Chun Shenjun completely lost his patience, Su Xiuran stood up, put one hand in his pocket, stood in front of the large floor-to-ceiling glass and looked at the quiet garden outside the window.
Compared with the astonishingly large back garden of the Su family's mansion, this place looks small and monotonous, but it is surprisingly peaceful and radiates a sense of silence.
Su Xiuran looked at it for a while, raised his hand, and found the control panel of the whole house's alarm system on the side of the curtain, and then adjusted the alert level to the highest.
He still has a lot of judgments about Lin Mei that he hasn't told her today - she is sincere, dedicated, and has no haze in her heart, she is sunny, upright, and compassionate, she is smart, studious, and never arrogant.
In the environment where she grew up, there must have been a warm and ordinary family, with a pair of parents who love her, so that even if she leaves her homeland for her dream, she is still strong and independent, like a luminous body, not only illuminating herself, but also illuminating her. brighten others.
Such a person is...to him... very good, but unfortunately, there is no way to refuse.
On Sunday, Lin Mei rested at home and went out to have dinner with some old classmates at night. The weekend time that was never enough for her in the past seemed a bit too long now.
She deeply reflected on her signs of turning into a workaholic, and then thought that it must be because Su Xiuran was so comfortable at work, she didn't feel tired at all, but was very interesting, that's why she didn't work all day Everything is wrong.
Xingwen Books usually holds a regular meeting on Monday morning, and even Lin Mei, who usually doesn't have to clock in at work, has to attend.
Lin Mei got up early in the morning to tidy up, put on the dress she just bought, and went to work refreshed.She arrived early, but as soon as she entered the office, she saw two policemen in police uniforms at the front desk.
Du Yuwen was also standing at the front desk, and when he saw her, he said, "Xiao Lin, you don't need to go to the meeting after swiping the card, go to my office first, and cooperate with the police's inquiries."
Originally, she had a bad premonition about what happened to Zhang Lili at the weekend, but when she saw the serious police again today, Lin Mei's heart was empty for a moment, and she nodded and agreed, "Okay."
In order to avoid causing commotion, the police avoided the flow of people and entered Du Yuwen's office before working hours.
Lin Mei was the first to be called over for questioning. The policemen who came to investigate this time were not the same group as last time, but two people, a man and a woman. They looked quite old and spoke very politely.
Lin Mei is a woman, and the female policeman led the interrogation of her. Lin Mei remembered what Su Xiuran said to herself on Saturday, and she didn't keep it, and told the police all the details she knew.
Of course, it also included the cabinet that was additionally occupied by Zhang Lili, and Zhang Lili might have a secret lover.
What she revealed was obviously very important. The female policeman asked her to repeat it again. Not only did she take notes, but also recorded the audio. clues are important."
Lin Mei didn't continue to speak modest words, but paused for a moment, looked straight into the eyes of the policewoman and asked, "Although it's presumptuous, can you tell us about Zhang Lili's latest situation?"
The female policeman smiled apologetically: "I'm really sorry, people other than family members have no right to know, please understand us."
Although it was not stated clearly, the apology and tight-lipped eyes of the female policeman can already reveal some things.Lin Mei didn't ask any more questions, and got up to say goodbye to them.
This time the policeman was very patient and questioned almost all the people in the office, and they didn't finish their farewell until lunch time.
Because of the police's inquiry, the morning regular meeting of the editorial department was moved to the afternoon. Lin Mei didn't go to Su Xiuran's place, but stayed and waited for the meeting.
In the past two weeks, she had not eaten in the company's canteen for a long time, and noticed that the expressions of her colleagues today were indeed unusually heavy.
Although criminal cases are commonplace in some novels or TV dramas, for ordinary people, it is still a painful experience that is rarely encountered once in a lifetime.
After Lin Mei had lunch and sat down, she saw several female colleagues from the same department huddling together at a table to discuss. Seeing her, she immediately waved to her, motioning for her to go too.
Of course, Lin Mei couldn't isolate herself, so she walked over and sat down, just as Xiao Li, the receptionist at the front desk, said softly: "I heard the police discuss the case when they first arrived in the morning, Zhang Lili seems to have committed suicide .”
The expressions of the colleagues were all shocked, and they were all a little bit sad and sad, but they didn't know what happened, and they didn't have much to say except lamenting that life is fleeting.
Lin Mei didn't participate in the discussion very much, she just nodded occasionally to show that she was also listening, but thinking that the colleague who appeared in front of her a week ago had left this world still made her feel heavy.
After the regular meeting in the afternoon, Lin Mei came to Su Xiuran's house, and she brought this ambiguous result to Su Xiuran.After listening, Su Xiuran didn't say anything, just nodded to show that he already knew.
Lin Mei still sighed with emotion: "Why did you commit suicide? For an unworthy relationship?"
Su Xiuran smiled, looking very gentle, but there was no smile in his eyes, but a touch of sadness: "There are many people in this world who died not from appearances...but from heartbreak."
Su Xiuran obviously thought or expected something, but Lin Mei didn't know how to continue to ask him, so he could only sigh, and lowered his head to tease Jun Shen who was lying on his feet: "My lord, human beings live too much. Are you tired?"
Chunshen Jun snorted a delicate and soft cry from his nose, and turned out his white belly towards her.
A few days later, the case of Zhang Lili's disappearance was quietly settled. It happened that a colleague from the Xingwen Book Publishing Department had relatives at the branch office, so he found out some details.
Xingwen Books is not a big company in the first place, and if colleagues talk about it casually, basically the entire editorial department understands the cause and effect tacitly.
Lin Mei compared what she had heard by eliminating the false and preserving the true, and roughly restored the truth of the matter.
Zhang Lili's secret lover was an executive of a securities company downstairs. The executive had a wife and a daughter, so this shady extramarital affair was carried out in a particularly secretive manner.
Lin Mei and Zhang Lili had worked together for three years, and she felt that she was not a woman who was greedy for vanity. In fact, even if the executive's financial conditions were good, he only gave her some small gifts from time to time, and the two had no financial relationship.
Originally, this secret love affair had been going on for more than a year, but it suddenly broke out because the executive's wife discovered some clues. The wife was not a person who was good at forbearance. After discovering her husband's infidelity, she immediately asked for a divorce.
The executive's wife has no definite evidence of the executive's infidelity, and it is not an advantage when divorcing the division of property, so the executive told Zhang Lili to be careful during this period of time and not to be caught, and said that after the divorce , will marry Zhang Lili.
But Zhang Lili saw the hypocrisy of the executive. He was not just her lover, and he didn't want to divorce his wife. Maintaining the current marriage and constantly flirting outside was his ideal state.
Paranoid about love and with a fierce personality, she threatened the executive to give the evidence of their togetherness to the executive's wife, thereby forcing the executive to divorce as soon as possible, and also asked the executive to fulfill his previous promise to marry her.
The executive hated her for being "disobedient", but there was nothing he could do, so he had no choice but to sneak into Xingwen through the fire exit during the lunch break, format Zhang Lili's desktop computer, and wanted to steal Zhang Lili's laptop because there were More evidence of their togetherness.
Because Liu Han put his laptop next to Zhang Lili's desk, and the laptops of Xingwen Library employees are uniformly equipped by the company, and they look exactly the same, so it was actually Liu who stole it in a hurry that day. Han's computer.
Back at the office after the dinner, when Liu Han found out that her computer had been stolen, Zhang Lili also found out that her desktop computer had been formatted. She should have guessed that it was her lover who did it. She didn’t tell her colleagues the truth for the sake of face. At the same time, he was even more disappointed with his lover.
This also indirectly contributed to the later tragedy: that weekend, Zhang Lili first left an email to the executives, and then went alone to their secret love nest in the suburbs.
In that email, Zhang Lili threatened the executive that she would commit suicide by taking sleeping pills if he did not come immediately.
No one knew what Zhang Lili's final mood was. Her lover never showed up that weekend - he temporarily decided to spend the weekend with his wife and daughter going to the seaside for vacation in an attempt to repair their marriage that was on the verge of breakdown. He didn't return to City B until Monday morning.
When the police found Zhang Lili in her apartment in the suburbs a few days later, they were able to confirm that she committed suicide in the early morning hours of Sunday.
If there is anything in the final result that can make people feel better, it is that after Zhang Lili's suicide was known by the executive's wife, she refused the executive's request to get back together and insisted on divorce.
The police found Zhang Lili's computer in Liu Han's cabinet, and found a lot of evidence of executive derailment in it.In the event of a divorce lawsuit, as an executive of the wrong party, he will probably leave his family and have no way to obtain custody of his daughter.
What almost everyone didn't expect was that Zhang Lili's computer still contained a lot of evidence that the executive used the company's power to make profits for himself, and the amount involved was not small. In this way, he was fired from the company in addition to the breakdown of his marriage. , and is likely to face litigation.
Lin Mei told Su Xiuran all this, but he just listened silently, until Lin Mei finished speaking, he raised his hand to touch Chun Shenjun who was lying next to him and pretending to be asleep.
Lin Mei still felt a little emotional: "It's just a man who is playful and has no sense of responsibility. Is it worth paying for his precious life?"
Su Xiuran raised his head and smiled at her: "According to your usual observation, where does Zhang Lili like to put his laptop?"
Lin Mei tilted her head and recalled for a moment: "Take it home. Many of our colleagues are used to taking their laptops home, so that if there is any work emergency at home, they can also be dealt with."
Su Xiuran nodded: "Yes, everyone is used to carrying their laptops with them, especially on weekends... for two days, it is more convenient to have a computer by their side."
Only then did Lin Mei realize that something was wrong: "Zhang Lili is going to an apartment in the suburbs, but he left his computer in the office and locked it in Liu Han's cabinet. I don't know why."
Su Xiuran smiled at her: "On the eve of suicide, she chose to lock her laptop in the cabinet of her colleague's workstation, especially since she already knew that some things in this computer made some people deeply afraid .”
Lin Mei also got it right: "You mean... Zhang Lili did it on purpose? She knew that if she committed suicide, the laptop would be discovered sooner or later, and the evidence inside would be enough to make her lover regret it?"
Su Xiuran nodded: "You just said that her lover decided to go to another place for vacation at the last minute?"
Lin Mei nodded: "It is said that the air tickets were all booked on a short-term basis, and they went in a hurry." She was a little surprised when she said this, "You mean... her lover expected that given her personality, she would choose some very They fought fiercely, so they simply hid far away to avoid suspicion?"
Su Xiuran nodded and smiled: "He didn't underestimate women's obsession with love, but underestimated women's determination."
Perhaps in that executive's mind, Zhang Lili was just a little woman who was played by him in his hands. He gave her sweet love and also gave her eternal pain, and even her destruction was within his expectation.
But he did not expect that at the most desperate moment, Zhang Lili would still prepare punishment and trial for him—if he hadn't been so heartless, but had rushed to the suburbs to save people at that time, wouldn't Zhang Lili have released the information she had? ?
If he really divorced his wife and gave Zhang Lili everything he had promised, would his situation be better than it is now?
Zhang Lili's love and hatred, at the moment her life disappeared, all returned to nothingness, but what about her lover?Thinking of her now, would he hate her scheming and viciousness, or would he miss her cute appearance when she was snuggled by his side?
After listening to Su Xiuran's final analysis, Lin Mei couldn't tell what she felt in her heart, it was very subtle... sympathy, regret, and some disapproval based on moral principles.
Su Xiuran looked at her complicated expression, and said softly: "Not all the people we meet in this world will bring us happiness and warmth. There are always some things that cannot be measured by a single good and evil. "
Lin Mei looked up at his lowered eyes, there was always a hint of pity in his eyes, other than that, there was only peace, like a god sitting high in the sky, he sympathized with all suffering beings, but also Just pity, no more emotion.
She couldn't help asking: "How do you think about this matter?"
Su Xiuran asked softly: "What's your opinion? You can tell me first."
Lin Mei thought for a while and said: "Zhang Lili is my colleague, I feel sorry for her, but everything is her own choice, but she has paid the heaviest price for it, I can't blame her, But I don't agree with her love and life. As for her lover, he is a complete hypocrite. I despise people like him, and I hate and despise him in terms of personality."
Su Xiuran just smiled after hearing this: "Look, your own evaluation is already very clear."
Looking at his gentle face, Lin Mei breathed a sigh of relief, raised her eyebrows, and wondered about her persistence just now: why did she have to ask Su Xiuran for his opinion?Obviously, the evaluation in my heart is enough to make a conclusion.
She took a few deep breaths to adjust her mood, then stood up and smiled at Su Xiuran: "Don't talk, I'll go cook and prepare our lunch!"
Chun Shenjun, who had been squatting on the sofa with a detached expression, suddenly stood up and stretched, as if inspired by something, and looked at Lin Mei expectantly.
Lin Mei couldn't help laughing, and touched its furry head: "Don't worry, my lord, I will make offerings to you...I'll cook chicken breast for you!"
Chunshen Jun immediately raised his tail and shook her happily a few times, flashing a pair of big emerald-like eyes to show his cuteness, seeing Lin Meichun's heart fluttering, he picked her up and kissed her fiercely.
At this quiet and warm moment, Lin Mei never imagined that just a few days later, her life would face new changes.
(End of this chapter)
It happened to be lunch time when they got off the bus, Su Xiuran had a bad stomach, and eating on time is a necessary habit, so they had to eat first.
Su Xiuran cooks lunch, and the dishes are first-class in taste. He is not proud of himself as a man who can cook good dishes, but politely but thoughtfully invites Lin Mei to taste his cooking.
After more than an hour, when they were sitting on the sofa drinking tea, Lin Mei finally couldn't help asking: "Where did I go wrong? Can you tell me?"
Su Xiuran smiled slightly, and Lin Mei saw the expression he showed in the office in the morning: although he was smiling, there was some indescribable sadness and loss in his eyes.
Lin Mei intuitively felt something bad: "You mean Zhang Lili is in danger?"
Su Xiuran did not answer directly, but said gently: "Since you know the methods of deductive reasoning, you must also know that in the reasoning of specific events, it is often not just a certain method, but Several methods are used together.”
His speaking speed was originally slow, but now he slowed down, and it was even more like the timbre of a cello, with a deep and soothing charm.
He continued slowly like this: "Then take a certain fictitious murder case as an example. A female victim was murdered in her own home. She was small and thin and had no special physical training. Such victims are generally Weak, so she was successfully killed in a short time."
When he said this, he stopped and looked at Lin Mei.
Lin Mei came to her senses and answered, "This is a syllogism."
Su Xiuran nodded approvingly, and said: "The victim was hit on the head with a blunt object, such as a heavy hammer, and died. A person who can use such a blunt object should be very tall, so the murderer is a tall man. Strong people."
Lin Mei thought for a while: "This is hypothetical reasoning."
Su Xiuran nodded, and continued: "After investigation, we found that the three suspects with the most motives are one thin and sickly, one with paralysis of lower limbs, and one tall and strong. Then the investigation will focus on delineating the third suspect."
Lin Mei has already reacted quickly: "This is selective reasoning."
Su Xiuran smiled: "Yes, this is just a very simple reasoning process, the most basic evidence points to the most likely suspect. But when there is no conclusive evidence to prove that the third suspect is the murderer, it is just an inference.
"Especially... people who are thin, sick and paralyzed, there is absolutely no way to use a hammer to kill people? Not only that, these three people are only the suspects who were discovered, and there are even the fourth and fifth suspects. exist.
"Among all the inferences, only the first inference is actually established, that is, the female victim is relatively weak and relatively easy to be killed."
Hearing this, Lin Mei suddenly realized: "So you say that my reasoning is wrong, because I presuppose a big false judgment - that is, all this is caused by the lost notebook. And this judgment Is it wrong?"
Su Xiuran nodded: "You are my editor, and you are too concerned about my affairs, and in this whole incident, the first anomaly you noticed was the loss of the laptop, so your attention is too much here There's nothing wrong with that."
Lin Mei was penetrated to this level, and her brain was running at a high speed, so she ignored his sentence "too concerned about my affairs".When she thought of something, she looked at Su Xiuran in surprise: "You mean...the disappearance of Zhang Lili may have nothing to do with the loss of the laptop, and even the loss of the laptop has nothing to do with your manuscript in it." It doesn't matter?"
Su Xiuran smiled: "You are most concerned about the lost outline, so you ignore the most likely direction. If the police investigate, they will consider the whole matter from a more obvious starting point, so I am not worried The police can't find out the truth... just some details, if the police ignore it, I hope you can find a way to tell them."
Lin Mei didn't understand for a while: "The most likely direction?"
Su Xiuran nodded: "Zhang Lili has been confirmed to be missing now. After so many days, whether her personal safety is guaranteed is already in doubt. Although I am not underestimating myself, I feel that the weight of my manuscript outline is not enough to make the criminals not hesitate to hurt her." A person has to take a desperate risk... Such incidents usually involve more and more amazing capital, or enough important secrets to overshadow the amazing amount of capital."
Lin Mei was taken aback for a moment, and then realized: "Yeah, ever since Zhang Lili disappeared, I felt that the whole thing was wrong, even if it was true that she stole your outline, if she was caught, it would only be the crime of theft, and there is no point in absconding. "
The penalty for the crime of theft is not heavy, and the lost things are not many, and the nature is not bad. Xingwen Books did not forcefully demand that it must be recovered, and the police did not allocate much police force to investigate. Judging from the current situation, most of them will not succeed in the end. Let it go.
Su Xiuran nodded: "So even if she stole the computer, there are other people behind her, there is no need to cause her disappearance."
If the assumption that Zhang Lili disappeared because of a stolen laptop is ruled out, then the next thing can be easily figured out. Lin Mei said in surprise, "If it's not because of the company, then what is it?"
Su Xiuran still didn't answer, but continued: "After listening to your investigation, I guessed that the loss of the laptop might have nothing to do with my manuscript. After I went to your office to read it today, I'm absolutely sure."
Lin Mei felt that her eyelids were going to twitch: "You have been there for such a short time, what can you tell... Don't tell me that I have different IQs and can't talk, I will be angry."
Hearing what she said, Su Xiuran also laughed a little: "I made an inference before I went to the scene. It was only to confirm my guess, so it was so fast."
He said, put down the bone china teacup in his hand, looked at Lin Mei more intently and said: "After I entered the corridor leading to your office from the front desk, I found an emergency exit passage on the side of the corridor. but like many office buildings, this door has a pane of glass in the upper center."
Lin Mei also remembered: "Yes, there is indeed a fire escape there."
Su Xiuran said again: "I looked at all your office areas and found that they are all non-smoking areas, even the lounge is no exception."
Lin Mei nodded: "That's right, smoking is prohibited in the entire building, and smoke detectors are even installed in the bathrooms. I have heard colleagues who smoke complain that it is not okay to hide in the bathroom."
Su Xiuran slightly hooked the corners of his lips, with a somewhat expected expression: "It hasn't been many years since city B has banned smoking indoors, and most smokers haven't developed a good habit. I guess someone will find a way to find a place to smoke, I just looked through the glass on the door of the fire exit in your office, and saw a few cigarette butts thrown on the ground of the passage."
Xingwen Books is on the [-]th floor, and going downstairs to smoke is a little troublesome. When he said this, Lin Mei also remembered that there were colleagues who smoked and would go to the fire exit to smoke.
As for why the fire exits that are supposed to be locked are allowed to enter and exit?That's a better explanation. The key there is kept at the front desk, and any colleague can say hello to use it, as long as it is returned after use, it will be no problem.
Speaking of this, Su Xiuran paused: "Since there are people going in and out of the fire escape on weekdays, the person who took the computer may not be someone inside Xingwen Books... but a staff member on a floor similar to the [-]th floor .”
Lin Mei thought about it. Although the security checks for entering and exiting the entire office building are very strict, it is not difficult to communicate between floors. As long as you can enter the fire escape from other floors and exit from the fire escape on the [-]th floor, It's very simple.
Su Xiuran kept looking at her, but Lin Mei didn't notice that his gaze was too focused, she just nodded while immersed in her own thoughts.
Su Xiuran smiled calmly: "I stood at the window and found that the glass wall of the opposite building would reflect light according to the intensity of sunlight. The stronger the sunlight, the stronger the reflection. It was around ten o'clock in the morning, and it was already able to reflect The shadow inside this office building, if the sunlight is stronger, can reflect the situation in your office quite clearly."
Lin Mei suddenly thought that sometimes when she was in a daze in the office, she liked to peek at what people were doing on the upper and lower floors from the shadow on the glass of the opposite building, and cleared her throat embarrassingly.
Su Xiuran smiled: "You told me that the day the laptop was lost was sunny and that it was lost during a noon dinner, then if someone was standing on a floor similar to the seventeenth floor, they could have observed people from your company leaving."
"That makes sense." Lin Mei touched her chin and nodded, "That day, people from other floors saw that the people in our office had almost left, so they came up from the fire escape and stole Liu Han's laptop?"
Su Xiuran shook his head: "You also told me a detail. Liu Han walked in a hurry that day, and he put the laptop on the table, and it might fall to the ground...His neighbor is Zhang Lili. That person The target may not be Liu Han's computer."
"It belongs to Zhang Lili?" Lin Mei unconsciously opened her eyes that were already wide open due to concentration, "What is the value of her computer, and someone will come here to steal it?"
Su Xiuran smiled and shook his head: "Whether it is valuable or not, there are different answers for different people... Zhang Lili's computer may contain a secret that someone absolutely does not want to reveal."
When he said this, he looked at her and asked softly: "Your position is just behind Zhang Lili, please recall... Is there any sign that she is having a secret relationship?"
If the details and analysis laid out above only slightly cleared the fog that covered Lin Mei's eyes, then this sentence really split her chaotic thinking like a lightning bolt.
Does Zhang Lili have a secret relationship?You can say yes, or you can say no.
When she was in the office, she did not hide the interaction with that person: she could talk for 10 minutes on the phone as if no one else was there, with an intimate tone; after lunch break, she would often come back with some small gifts, such as a few delicate cakes and a bottle of perfume , a pair of earrings.
Lin Mei sat right behind her and saw more.During working hours, Zhang Lili also often uses instant messaging tools to type and chat with someone.
Lin Mei didn't have the habit of peeping, but Zhang Lili chatted too much, and zoomed in on the screen without covering it up. Occasionally, when she glanced over, the screen was filled with words like "dear" and "husband".
But Zhang Lili kept claiming that she was single. On Valentine's Day last month, she shouted that she didn't have a boyfriend for the holiday, but she went downstairs and brought up a bouquet of roses.
Lin Mei saw all these things, but Zhang Lili never admitted that she had a boyfriend in front of her colleagues. When the police came to the office to investigate, Lin Mei naturally couldn't say too much, and could only say that she didn't know if she had a boyfriend.
The attitudes of other colleagues are similar to hers. Zhang Lili is temporarily missing. If someone is found in a few days and comes back to work, she will know that the colleague has leaked her privacy to the police. How will she get along with her in the future?
But facing Su Xiuran at this moment, Lin Mei didn't hold back, and told him everything she knew.
Su Xiuran nodded, with an unexpected expression, but more of a faint sense of sadness.
Although Lin Mei and Zhang Lili were not on good terms, they were colleagues who had worked together for three years. Seeing him like this, she felt inexplicably flustered, and hurriedly asked, "Do you think something happened to Zhang Lili?"
She was a little bit regretful. The police came to investigate two days ago. She should have told the police that Zhang Lili might have a boyfriend, and he was probably also a staff member in this office building, instead of worrying a lot and keeping silent.
Su Xiuran saw the remorse on her face, and said softly, "According to the timetable, when you called the police, Zhang Lili had been missing for more than 72 hours. If something really happened, it would have been over already."
Having said that, Lin Mei still felt a little uncomfortable, Su Xiuran looked at her, and then said: "If you want to make up, it's not impossible, I see that there is a cabinet with drawers under your desk .”
Lin Mei nodded: "That's right, each of us is equipped with a low cabinet, which is integrated with the desk. There is a lock on the top of the cabinet. It is inconvenient to take out the office and more important things can be locked inside."
Su Xiuran nodded and said he knew: "Let's not talk about Zhang Lili's low cabinet, of course she locked it. The seat next to her is Liu Han's. Liu Han has resigned, so he should empty the low cabinet and put the key in the cabinet lock for convenience. The person who replaced it will use it, but today I saw that the cabinet under Liu Han's desk was locked."
Lin Mei said "Oh" and suddenly realized: "Isn't Liu Han often here with you? He has very few things in the office. I remember Zhang Lili seemed to say that there are too many things to put down. If he wants to borrow his cabinet, Liu Han should Freed up my own cupboard for her to use."
Su Xiuran smiled: "If the police's investigation has new progress and Zhang Lili's items need to be collected, you can tell them about it." He paused for a while, "If you're lucky, the items inside may be traced back to her. Who is the person in love?"
Lin Mei said that she remembered it.Just thinking that Zhang Lili's whereabouts are still unknown, I can't help but feel a little melancholy.
Su Xiuran got up and went to the bar to pour her freshly brewed coffee, as usual with milk and no sugar.
Lin Mei got up and took the coffee to thank her, took a sip, and the rich aroma filled her mouth. She only mentioned her own taste once on the first day she knew him, and the coffee that Su Xiuran made for her every day after that, Never went wrong again.
He might even have observed her expression after drinking the coffee, and adjusted the coffee accordingly. Every time the coffee was handed to her, no matter in terms of strength or aroma, it was more and more in line with her taste buds.
Working with Su Xiuran for two weeks, Lin Mei gradually understood Liu Han's mood, and why Liu Han spent every day working at Su Xiuran's office - Su Xiuran is a very amazing person, as long as he is willing, you can stay with him When you are together, you will be very comfortable and at ease, everything is ironed and reasonable, and you don't need to spend a little more time thinking about it.It is not an exaggeration to say that it is like a spring breeze.
At this moment, she put down her coffee cup and looked around. Just now, she realized how outstanding Su Xiuran's observation ability is. Now when she looks around this residence, she has a new experience.
This home is of course very tidy, and it is not wrong to describe it as spotless. Since she first stepped here, all the furnishings and items seem to have not changed in any way, even the magazines on the bookshelf, except for two new ones. Except for the period, the placement of the others has not changed.
Except for the ubiquitous green plants, there are hardly any purely decorative items, and everything is too well organized.Lin Mei also found that since she realized that she didn't like to play games, the PSP that had been placed under the coffee table and charged had long been put away and replaced with a tablet, which was a mini model more suitable for women's palms. .Because no password was set and the location was convenient, Lin Mei used it to look up information several times, and also used it to browse some news and electronic magazines.
After she realized these details, she couldn't help smiling and said to Su Xiuran: "No wonder you saw so many details once you went there, I just found out that your home is too tidy, and this place can be used as a model room anytime! "
Su Xiuran smiled slightly: "Every morning before nine o'clock, there will be cleaning staff who will come to tidy up, but the details are indeed requested by myself."
With a little fanatical worship of "the great god is indeed the great god", Lin Mei sighed: "Are you a Virgo? This is simply obsessive-compulsive disorder."
Su Xiuran obviously understood what "Virgo" meant, and said with a smile: "Thank you, it's not."
Lin Mei raised her eyebrows, obviously not very trusting: "Master, you are so amazing, you can see so many details with a pair of electric eyes, so what can you see from me?"
With a smile on Su Xiuran's lips, he hesitated for a moment: "Do you really want to listen?"
Lin Mei nodded generously: "I don't have any shady secrets."
The smile in Su Xiuran's eyes was even worse. He put down his teacup, clasped his slender fingers, looked at her and said, "Then I've offended you. From what I've known about you in the past two weeks, first of all, you are from City S. Since You are very familiar with the pronunciation habits of the local dialect, and you can tell from the eating habits. The most important thing is that when you asked me if I was from S City, you had the tone of an old acquaintance in a foreign land. "
This Lin Mei has nothing to hide, and she had expected it earlier, she nodded: "I was born and raised in S City, so it's easy to see."
Su Xiuran smiled and continued: "Secondly, you should live in the north of the western district. One night last week, there was only a little rain in that area of city B. When you drove here the next day, you didn't have time to wash the car. There are obvious signs of rainwater - this can also prove that there is an outdoor parking lot where you live. Once you called me at home before driving. It took 34 minutes. Combined with the road conditions that day, I can basically Determine which neighborhood you live in."
Lin Mei curled her lips: "If you want to know where I live, you can just ask."
Su Xiuran's smile remained unchanged: "I prepared a tablet for you because one time when you took the laptop out of your bag, you brought out a data cable for the tablet, and that kind of data cable does not match your mobile phone. , so I guess you should have the habit of using a tablet, but you don’t take it out often.”
Lin Mei felt a little moved by this incident: "Yes, I want to thank you for this, you are really considerate."
Su Xiuran's gaze suddenly became a little playful: "Judging from the fact that you also come to work overtime at my place on weekends, and from the details you usually show, I judge that you are single... from your casual attitude towards men , and it can be seen that you have probably never been in love."
Lin Mei immediately raised her hand in a gesture of stopping: "Master, don't talk about it, it's an invasion of personal privacy!"
It's not a crime to have never been in a relationship, but Lin Mei's cheeks are still a little red. Although she can't compare with Su Xiuran's slender figure, she is considered tall among women.She has a beautiful face, no matter when she is studying or after work, there is no shortage of suitors, but she has never been able to feel similar to love for any man, so she has always been single.
She was still a little aggrieved when she thought about it, and said to Su Xiuran: "After talking for a long time, what you observed is just some very ordinary things."
Su Xiuran was very calm: "Because you are a person who has no secrets, so I don't see anything particularly unexpected."
Dare to blame her for being too ordinary?Lin Mei originally thought that when she came to Su Xiuran's house every day and saw many of his living habits, she must know him better than herself. Now it seems that although Su Xiuran is calm, she has already observed her carefully.
Thinking of this, she felt a sense of frustration: getting along with the reasoning writer day and night is really too stressful, and if one day she really does something shameful, she probably won't be able to hide it even if she wants to.
Su Xiuran looked at her aggrieved expression, probably in a good mood, and smiled with his lips hooked so that the corners of his eyes drooped slightly.
Not surprisingly, Lin Mei was dazzled by his rare bright smile again, she looked at the crimson tea soup in the white bone china teacup in his hand, immediately took it to heart, and smiled maliciously: " You are so good at making coffee, why don't you drink it yourself?"
Su Xiuran responded with a smile, and spoke cautiously: "I prefer black tea."
Lin Mei continued to laugh cunningly: "It's because I'm afraid of suffering..."
The radiant male god still had a gentle smile, so bright that it could directly lower the opponent's IQ, but there was a trace of undetectable wavering in his eyes: "It's okay."
Lin Mei laughed unceremoniously, feeling that she had managed to regain a victory.
Today Lin Mei stayed at Su Xiuran's house until very late, and stayed to have dinner, and supervised Su Xiuran's taking of medicine by the way.
In order to repay Su Xiuran for her kindness and care, she prepared a dessert for Su Xiuran, who is "fearful of suffering", a box of butter cookies baked by herself at home, completely customized according to Lin Mei's own taste, so sweet that it is sad .
Su Xiuran only ate one piece to show he was okay, and then drank a lot of water.
Lin Mei leaned her head on the side to look at his side face, which looked like it was cut out of a painting, and his Adam's apple sliding up and down. She didn't feel that it was impolite for her to stare at others so blankly, but she was a little sad : "Master, you said that you are afraid of both bitterness and sweetness, what is suitable for you to eat?"
Su Xiuran put down the water glass in his hand, curled his lips into a smile: "Moderate."
Lin Mei secretly slandered him for being too particular, so she took a cookie and threw it into her mouth, the sweetness was just right, every bite would taste like happiness, right?
This was the last time she stayed at Su Xiuran's house. Su Xiuran sent her out, and he stood outside the carved railing watching her car drive away slowly.Lin Mei had already driven a long way, and he could still see his figure standing quietly under the streetlight through the rearview mirror.
Seeing the small car turn around, even the red taillights disappeared, Su Xiuran stood for a while before turning back to go home.
The entrance and living room were still brightly lit, but after one person was missing, it suddenly became colder, and even the surrounding temperature seemed to drop.
There was a short but majestic "meow" at his feet, and Su Xiuran lowered his head, only to realize that at some point, Chun Shenjun had already run up to him, and stared at Yuanyuan's eyes quite seriously. watching him.
Su Xiuran couldn't help laughing: "I'm sorry, I forgot your dinner."
He went to fetch the canned cat food, opened the bottle cap and poured it into Chunshen Jun's food bowl, and replaced it with a bowl of clean water. Chunshen Jun was finally satisfied with the servant's service, so he went to his feet and rubbed it a few times. Below as a compliment.
Su Xiuran squatted down, touched Chun Shenjun's head, and felt the temperature of its small and furry head rubbing against his palm.
With the food in front of him, Chunshen Jun gave him a rare face, raised his head and touched his palm to show his affection.
Su Xiuran slightly bent his lips and smiled. His smile was slightly different from Lin Mei's. Although it was just as gentle, his eyes revealed some thoughts that were hard to see clearly. He said softly: "Are you looking at me too Lonely, that's why you come to accompany me?"
Chunshen Jun ate the fish, and wagged his tail twice, not sure if he was impatient or in response.
As if thinking of something during the day, Su Xiuran's smile softened a bit: "Maybe you think I'm too sensitive, but I'm beginning to feel that her appearance...is a gift given to me by fate."
Chun Shenjun let out an indistinct purr, turned the cat's head and left his buttocks for him.
Su Xiuran, who is noble and good at detecting other people's emotions, acted as if he hadn't seen it at all. Instead, he stroked its cat's tail twice, and continued to sigh softly, with a faint brilliance in his eyes: "Maybe you want to say that I It's just that I've been lonely for too long..."
If Lin Mei was present, she probably couldn't help complaining: God, you are a person with such a high IQ, is it true that you can talk so deeply with a cat?
Before Chun Shenjun completely lost his patience, Su Xiuran stood up, put one hand in his pocket, stood in front of the large floor-to-ceiling glass and looked at the quiet garden outside the window.
Compared with the astonishingly large back garden of the Su family's mansion, this place looks small and monotonous, but it is surprisingly peaceful and radiates a sense of silence.
Su Xiuran looked at it for a while, raised his hand, and found the control panel of the whole house's alarm system on the side of the curtain, and then adjusted the alert level to the highest.
He still has a lot of judgments about Lin Mei that he hasn't told her today - she is sincere, dedicated, and has no haze in her heart, she is sunny, upright, and compassionate, she is smart, studious, and never arrogant.
In the environment where she grew up, there must have been a warm and ordinary family, with a pair of parents who love her, so that even if she leaves her homeland for her dream, she is still strong and independent, like a luminous body, not only illuminating herself, but also illuminating her. brighten others.
Such a person is...to him... very good, but unfortunately, there is no way to refuse.
On Sunday, Lin Mei rested at home and went out to have dinner with some old classmates at night. The weekend time that was never enough for her in the past seemed a bit too long now.
She deeply reflected on her signs of turning into a workaholic, and then thought that it must be because Su Xiuran was so comfortable at work, she didn't feel tired at all, but was very interesting, that's why she didn't work all day Everything is wrong.
Xingwen Books usually holds a regular meeting on Monday morning, and even Lin Mei, who usually doesn't have to clock in at work, has to attend.
Lin Mei got up early in the morning to tidy up, put on the dress she just bought, and went to work refreshed.She arrived early, but as soon as she entered the office, she saw two policemen in police uniforms at the front desk.
Du Yuwen was also standing at the front desk, and when he saw her, he said, "Xiao Lin, you don't need to go to the meeting after swiping the card, go to my office first, and cooperate with the police's inquiries."
Originally, she had a bad premonition about what happened to Zhang Lili at the weekend, but when she saw the serious police again today, Lin Mei's heart was empty for a moment, and she nodded and agreed, "Okay."
In order to avoid causing commotion, the police avoided the flow of people and entered Du Yuwen's office before working hours.
Lin Mei was the first to be called over for questioning. The policemen who came to investigate this time were not the same group as last time, but two people, a man and a woman. They looked quite old and spoke very politely.
Lin Mei is a woman, and the female policeman led the interrogation of her. Lin Mei remembered what Su Xiuran said to herself on Saturday, and she didn't keep it, and told the police all the details she knew.
Of course, it also included the cabinet that was additionally occupied by Zhang Lili, and Zhang Lili might have a secret lover.
What she revealed was obviously very important. The female policeman asked her to repeat it again. Not only did she take notes, but also recorded the audio. clues are important."
Lin Mei didn't continue to speak modest words, but paused for a moment, looked straight into the eyes of the policewoman and asked, "Although it's presumptuous, can you tell us about Zhang Lili's latest situation?"
The female policeman smiled apologetically: "I'm really sorry, people other than family members have no right to know, please understand us."
Although it was not stated clearly, the apology and tight-lipped eyes of the female policeman can already reveal some things.Lin Mei didn't ask any more questions, and got up to say goodbye to them.
This time the policeman was very patient and questioned almost all the people in the office, and they didn't finish their farewell until lunch time.
Because of the police's inquiry, the morning regular meeting of the editorial department was moved to the afternoon. Lin Mei didn't go to Su Xiuran's place, but stayed and waited for the meeting.
In the past two weeks, she had not eaten in the company's canteen for a long time, and noticed that the expressions of her colleagues today were indeed unusually heavy.
Although criminal cases are commonplace in some novels or TV dramas, for ordinary people, it is still a painful experience that is rarely encountered once in a lifetime.
After Lin Mei had lunch and sat down, she saw several female colleagues from the same department huddling together at a table to discuss. Seeing her, she immediately waved to her, motioning for her to go too.
Of course, Lin Mei couldn't isolate herself, so she walked over and sat down, just as Xiao Li, the receptionist at the front desk, said softly: "I heard the police discuss the case when they first arrived in the morning, Zhang Lili seems to have committed suicide .”
The expressions of the colleagues were all shocked, and they were all a little bit sad and sad, but they didn't know what happened, and they didn't have much to say except lamenting that life is fleeting.
Lin Mei didn't participate in the discussion very much, she just nodded occasionally to show that she was also listening, but thinking that the colleague who appeared in front of her a week ago had left this world still made her feel heavy.
After the regular meeting in the afternoon, Lin Mei came to Su Xiuran's house, and she brought this ambiguous result to Su Xiuran.After listening, Su Xiuran didn't say anything, just nodded to show that he already knew.
Lin Mei still sighed with emotion: "Why did you commit suicide? For an unworthy relationship?"
Su Xiuran smiled, looking very gentle, but there was no smile in his eyes, but a touch of sadness: "There are many people in this world who died not from appearances...but from heartbreak."
Su Xiuran obviously thought or expected something, but Lin Mei didn't know how to continue to ask him, so he could only sigh, and lowered his head to tease Jun Shen who was lying on his feet: "My lord, human beings live too much. Are you tired?"
Chunshen Jun snorted a delicate and soft cry from his nose, and turned out his white belly towards her.
A few days later, the case of Zhang Lili's disappearance was quietly settled. It happened that a colleague from the Xingwen Book Publishing Department had relatives at the branch office, so he found out some details.
Xingwen Books is not a big company in the first place, and if colleagues talk about it casually, basically the entire editorial department understands the cause and effect tacitly.
Lin Mei compared what she had heard by eliminating the false and preserving the true, and roughly restored the truth of the matter.
Zhang Lili's secret lover was an executive of a securities company downstairs. The executive had a wife and a daughter, so this shady extramarital affair was carried out in a particularly secretive manner.
Lin Mei and Zhang Lili had worked together for three years, and she felt that she was not a woman who was greedy for vanity. In fact, even if the executive's financial conditions were good, he only gave her some small gifts from time to time, and the two had no financial relationship.
Originally, this secret love affair had been going on for more than a year, but it suddenly broke out because the executive's wife discovered some clues. The wife was not a person who was good at forbearance. After discovering her husband's infidelity, she immediately asked for a divorce.
The executive's wife has no definite evidence of the executive's infidelity, and it is not an advantage when divorcing the division of property, so the executive told Zhang Lili to be careful during this period of time and not to be caught, and said that after the divorce , will marry Zhang Lili.
But Zhang Lili saw the hypocrisy of the executive. He was not just her lover, and he didn't want to divorce his wife. Maintaining the current marriage and constantly flirting outside was his ideal state.
Paranoid about love and with a fierce personality, she threatened the executive to give the evidence of their togetherness to the executive's wife, thereby forcing the executive to divorce as soon as possible, and also asked the executive to fulfill his previous promise to marry her.
The executive hated her for being "disobedient", but there was nothing he could do, so he had no choice but to sneak into Xingwen through the fire exit during the lunch break, format Zhang Lili's desktop computer, and wanted to steal Zhang Lili's laptop because there were More evidence of their togetherness.
Because Liu Han put his laptop next to Zhang Lili's desk, and the laptops of Xingwen Library employees are uniformly equipped by the company, and they look exactly the same, so it was actually Liu who stole it in a hurry that day. Han's computer.
Back at the office after the dinner, when Liu Han found out that her computer had been stolen, Zhang Lili also found out that her desktop computer had been formatted. She should have guessed that it was her lover who did it. She didn’t tell her colleagues the truth for the sake of face. At the same time, he was even more disappointed with his lover.
This also indirectly contributed to the later tragedy: that weekend, Zhang Lili first left an email to the executives, and then went alone to their secret love nest in the suburbs.
In that email, Zhang Lili threatened the executive that she would commit suicide by taking sleeping pills if he did not come immediately.
No one knew what Zhang Lili's final mood was. Her lover never showed up that weekend - he temporarily decided to spend the weekend with his wife and daughter going to the seaside for vacation in an attempt to repair their marriage that was on the verge of breakdown. He didn't return to City B until Monday morning.
When the police found Zhang Lili in her apartment in the suburbs a few days later, they were able to confirm that she committed suicide in the early morning hours of Sunday.
If there is anything in the final result that can make people feel better, it is that after Zhang Lili's suicide was known by the executive's wife, she refused the executive's request to get back together and insisted on divorce.
The police found Zhang Lili's computer in Liu Han's cabinet, and found a lot of evidence of executive derailment in it.In the event of a divorce lawsuit, as an executive of the wrong party, he will probably leave his family and have no way to obtain custody of his daughter.
What almost everyone didn't expect was that Zhang Lili's computer still contained a lot of evidence that the executive used the company's power to make profits for himself, and the amount involved was not small. In this way, he was fired from the company in addition to the breakdown of his marriage. , and is likely to face litigation.
Lin Mei told Su Xiuran all this, but he just listened silently, until Lin Mei finished speaking, he raised his hand to touch Chun Shenjun who was lying next to him and pretending to be asleep.
Lin Mei still felt a little emotional: "It's just a man who is playful and has no sense of responsibility. Is it worth paying for his precious life?"
Su Xiuran raised his head and smiled at her: "According to your usual observation, where does Zhang Lili like to put his laptop?"
Lin Mei tilted her head and recalled for a moment: "Take it home. Many of our colleagues are used to taking their laptops home, so that if there is any work emergency at home, they can also be dealt with."
Su Xiuran nodded: "Yes, everyone is used to carrying their laptops with them, especially on weekends... for two days, it is more convenient to have a computer by their side."
Only then did Lin Mei realize that something was wrong: "Zhang Lili is going to an apartment in the suburbs, but he left his computer in the office and locked it in Liu Han's cabinet. I don't know why."
Su Xiuran smiled at her: "On the eve of suicide, she chose to lock her laptop in the cabinet of her colleague's workstation, especially since she already knew that some things in this computer made some people deeply afraid .”
Lin Mei also got it right: "You mean... Zhang Lili did it on purpose? She knew that if she committed suicide, the laptop would be discovered sooner or later, and the evidence inside would be enough to make her lover regret it?"
Su Xiuran nodded: "You just said that her lover decided to go to another place for vacation at the last minute?"
Lin Mei nodded: "It is said that the air tickets were all booked on a short-term basis, and they went in a hurry." She was a little surprised when she said this, "You mean... her lover expected that given her personality, she would choose some very They fought fiercely, so they simply hid far away to avoid suspicion?"
Su Xiuran nodded and smiled: "He didn't underestimate women's obsession with love, but underestimated women's determination."
Perhaps in that executive's mind, Zhang Lili was just a little woman who was played by him in his hands. He gave her sweet love and also gave her eternal pain, and even her destruction was within his expectation.
But he did not expect that at the most desperate moment, Zhang Lili would still prepare punishment and trial for him—if he hadn't been so heartless, but had rushed to the suburbs to save people at that time, wouldn't Zhang Lili have released the information she had? ?
If he really divorced his wife and gave Zhang Lili everything he had promised, would his situation be better than it is now?
Zhang Lili's love and hatred, at the moment her life disappeared, all returned to nothingness, but what about her lover?Thinking of her now, would he hate her scheming and viciousness, or would he miss her cute appearance when she was snuggled by his side?
After listening to Su Xiuran's final analysis, Lin Mei couldn't tell what she felt in her heart, it was very subtle... sympathy, regret, and some disapproval based on moral principles.
Su Xiuran looked at her complicated expression, and said softly: "Not all the people we meet in this world will bring us happiness and warmth. There are always some things that cannot be measured by a single good and evil. "
Lin Mei looked up at his lowered eyes, there was always a hint of pity in his eyes, other than that, there was only peace, like a god sitting high in the sky, he sympathized with all suffering beings, but also Just pity, no more emotion.
She couldn't help asking: "How do you think about this matter?"
Su Xiuran asked softly: "What's your opinion? You can tell me first."
Lin Mei thought for a while and said: "Zhang Lili is my colleague, I feel sorry for her, but everything is her own choice, but she has paid the heaviest price for it, I can't blame her, But I don't agree with her love and life. As for her lover, he is a complete hypocrite. I despise people like him, and I hate and despise him in terms of personality."
Su Xiuran just smiled after hearing this: "Look, your own evaluation is already very clear."
Looking at his gentle face, Lin Mei breathed a sigh of relief, raised her eyebrows, and wondered about her persistence just now: why did she have to ask Su Xiuran for his opinion?Obviously, the evaluation in my heart is enough to make a conclusion.
She took a few deep breaths to adjust her mood, then stood up and smiled at Su Xiuran: "Don't talk, I'll go cook and prepare our lunch!"
Chun Shenjun, who had been squatting on the sofa with a detached expression, suddenly stood up and stretched, as if inspired by something, and looked at Lin Mei expectantly.
Lin Mei couldn't help laughing, and touched its furry head: "Don't worry, my lord, I will make offerings to you...I'll cook chicken breast for you!"
Chunshen Jun immediately raised his tail and shook her happily a few times, flashing a pair of big emerald-like eyes to show his cuteness, seeing Lin Meichun's heart fluttering, he picked her up and kissed her fiercely.
At this quiet and warm moment, Lin Mei never imagined that just a few days later, her life would face new changes.
(End of this chapter)
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