This is a recent chat record.

Hu Pingtao continued to climb up.

"Xiao Huang and I have made an appointment to go to Daguanlou Park this Friday. You can come too!"

"I'm not going. Okay, I want to sleep."

"Lazy guy. You haven't seen Xiao Huang yet, come out and take a look for me!"

"It means you found a new boyfriend?"

"Look at what you said, what do you mean by finding someone new? I haven't had it all along, okay?"

"Okay! I said the wrong thing... I really don't want to talk to you anymore. I slept too late last night and I'm so sleepy. See you later."

…

"It's my birthday tomorrow, let's have dinner together tonight."

"Your birthday?"

"Yes! Didn't you say last time that you would give me a pair of shoes for my birthday?"

"...I'm so poor recently."

"I'm teasing you, just kidding! It's a real birthday. Come to the store early in the afternoon and wait for me to get off work to have dinner together. I'll treat you to crayfish."

"I still won't go. Firstly, the crayfish is too spicy and I can't eat it. Secondly, I have to read and take exams."

"Oh, it's just a meal, I won't delay you."

"Forget it, I really don't want to go."

…

"Let's go see a movie together this weekend!"

"No time..."

It's all content like this.

Hu Pingtao noticed that the content of the conversation was still different from more than a week ago.

"I made an appointment with a friend to have dinner together tonight."

"Okay! Where is it?"

"I get off work at six o'clock. How about we meet at the Electric Power Building? There is a snack street next to it. After dinner, we can go watch a movie."

"OK."

Hu Pingtao raised his head and asked, "You and Chu Ruoying often hang out?"

Zhou Zhixin nodded: "We have always had a good relationship."

Hu Pingtao had doubts about this: "I saw your WeChat chat records, why are you almost the one dating her?"

Zhou Zhixin explained: "I want to introduce a boyfriend to Xiaoying. Because when we rented together before, Xiaoying said that her family was urging her to get married. I happened to know a few men here, and I thought they were suitable, so we made an appointment.

We both came out to play together. Later, Xiaoying said that she wasn't interested in them, so I didn't make another date."

"Later Xiaoying found another job and moved away from my place. We kept in touch on WeChat and often chatted on the phone."

"An incident also happened during that time. The delivery drivers in the store changed frequently. There was one named Zhang Qiming who was sent from the company to deliver goods to the store. The store staff and I all

Hanging on the wall, right over there."

As he spoke, Zhou Zhixin raised his finger and pointed at the wall diagonally opposite. There were photos of the store manager and employees, as well as their corresponding job numbers.

This kind of bulletin board is very common.

Zhou Zhixin said: "At that time, Xiaoying had just left the store and I hadn't had time to change her photo. Zhang Qiming saw it once and asked me who this was? I briefly told him that it was from before

Zhang Qiming, a girl who works in the store, was very interested and asked me to help introduce her. He also said that if it happened, he would thank me very much."

Hu Pingtao asked: "Please help him introduce his girlfriend."

"Yes." Zhou Zhixin nodded: "I thought Zhang Qiming was pretty good-looking, so I agreed, and later asked Xiaoying to go out for dinner. Zhang Qiming asked for Xiaoying's mobile phone number, and the two of them added WeChat."

"Later on, I didn't know their specific development. Firstly, it's hard to ask, and secondly... I don't think Xiaoying likes Zhang Qiming. If I ask too many questions, she will definitely be unhappy."

Xing Le interjected: "Where is that Zhang Qiming now?"

"Still in the company." Zhou Zhixin replied: "He drives here every morning to deliver goods."

Hu Pingtao asked: "You said before that when you saw the photo of pajamas on our mobile phone, you thought it might be Chu Ruoying's. Does that mean you think there is something wrong with it?"

Zhou Zhixin hesitated for a moment and nodded: "If it is really Xiaoying's clothes, either the clothes have been stolen, or it is Xiaoying... I think nothing will happen to Xiaoying! After all, I am still on the phone

When I chatted with her, I guess her clothes were stolen."

Someone stole Chu Ruoying's clothes?

Hu Pingtao frowned subconsciously.

In fact, even he himself did not expect that he would be able to learn new clues from Zhou Zhixin.

First of all, there was a breakthrough in the pajamas worn by the deceased. Through the small white flower connecting the shoulder straps and the skirt, it was possible to determine that the owner of the clothes was Chu Ruoying.

Secondly, Chu Ruoying is very familiar with the staff in this store. She once worked here and has a good relationship with the store manager Zhou Zhixin. They are best friends.

Finally, Zhou Zhixin has Chu Ruoying’s contact information.

Yet the unsolved mysteries still exist, perhaps even more than before.

First of all, the biggest problem is to determine whether the identity of the deceased is Chu Ruoying.

Identifying the clothes does not mean identifying the deceased.

This brings us back to Zhou Zhixin’s thoughts just now—could it be that Chu Ruoying’s pajamas were stolen and, for some reason, were worn on the deceased’s body.

Thinking of this, Hu Pingtao asked seriously: "Xiao Zhou, call Chu Ruoying now and ask her out."

Zhou Zhixin showed hesitation again on his face: "This..."

Xing Le looked on and felt very strange: "Why, you can't even make a phone call? Are you having some trouble with Chu Ruoying?"

"No, that's not the case." Zhou Zhixin hurriedly explained: "Xiaoying and I have a very good relationship and have never had any quarrels. The reason why... Well, I haven't been able to get through Xiaoying's phone calls. She...she doesn't answer.

ah!"

Hu Pingtao asked strangely: "You mean, Chu Ruoying won't answer your call?"

Zhou Zhixin nodded: "I don't know why. Anyway, it's been like this for several days."

Hu Pingtao asked: "Don't be impatient. Think carefully. When did it start? What day? What day?"

Zhou Zhixin recalled: "It should have been last week...Tuesday...I remembered, it was Tuesday, the 11th. Xiaoying had said before about introducing her boyfriend, and it happened to be last Monday, which was the 10th.

, a fellow countryman came to see me. He is the younger brother of one of my classmates. He is a very nice person. He was admitted to Diannan University in the college entrance examination. He graduated the year before last and was admitted to the civil service. I heard that he is now working in the Cyberspace Affairs Office of the Propaganda Department of the Municipal Party Committee."

"Because my classmate and I live very close to each other in my hometown, and her brother happened to be home on the weekend, so my dad asked him to bring me some things. This kind of human relationship must come and go, and people are willing to help. I

I have to express my feelings to him, so I thought of inviting him to dinner and calling Xiaoying to have a good chat with him. I don’t care whether it works or not, I just want to get to know more friends."

"I called Xiaoying that day and the call went through, but she didn't answer and hung up. I felt strange at the time, so I asked her on WeChat what was going on. Xiaoying replied and said she was surfing the Internet.

class, come back to me after class is over."

"It'll be night after this."

"Xiaoying never responded to the message, and I couldn't help it, because we had an appointment for dinner and we couldn't keep people waiting! So my classmate's brother and I went to the restaurant first, ordered food, and almost finished eating.

, around eight o'clock or almost nine o'clock in the evening, Xiaoying sent me a message on WeChat, saying that she was busy taking exams during this period and could not come out."

"My classmate's younger brother is really not outstanding. I have always wanted to match him up with Xiaoying. He was sitting opposite me during the meal, so I took a photo of him with my mobile phone and sent it to Xiaoying.

I deliberately teased her on WeChat.”

With that said, Zhou Zhixin clicked on the phone screen and found the conversation record at that time.

Hu Pingtao took it and looked at it carefully.

"Did you see that? I'm not lying to you! He's really a handsome guy. He graduated from a bachelor's degree and was just admitted to the civil service. And he's in a municipal-level unit!"

"It's a shame that you didn't come to eat today. Don't say I don't take care of you. There won't be this store after passing this village. How about you tell me a time another day and I'll make an appointment for you."

"Why haven't you said anything? Hurry up, we've all finished eating and they have to leave."

Zhou Zhixin turned to Hu Pingtao and pointed at the WeChat conversation record on the phone screen: "Look here, the first time Xiaoying and I messaged, that is, when I sent her a photo, it was eight ten.

Nine points.”

"The second one is eight twenty-seven."

"The third one is eight thirty-three."

"The last one is eight forty-five."

"It's been almost half an hour before and after, and Xiaoying didn't reply to me a word."

Hu Pingtao looked solemn, nodded slightly, and asked: "Is Chu Ruoying always slow to reply to messages?"

Zhou Zhixin shook his head and said: "Xiaoying has a lively temperament and is very active in doing things. Usually, when I chat with her, she almost always responds instantly, and it was an agreement between the two of us to introduce her boyfriend, so I feel
To be continued...