Hu Yifan was stunned for a moment when he was asked, then he reacted and whispered: "You are not doubting me, are you?"
"It's just a routine inquiry, don't be nervous." Lu Wuchuan said calmly.
"This is a murder case, how can I not be nervous?" Hu Yifan wiped the sweat from his forehead, "I admit that my relationship with Ji Xiaoqing is a bit beyond the scope of normal colleagues, but her death is nothing like me.
It has nothing to do with it. I told the police officer who investigated before that I didn’t go out that night and was always at home.”
"Ji Xiaoqing didn't get home until after nine o'clock that night." Lu Wuchuan's eyes looked at him coldly, "Is she with you?"
Just when Hu Yifan was about to shake his head and deny it, he added: "Think carefully before answering. If lying affects the police's handling of the case, the consequences... you should know, so I don't need to say more, right?"
Knowing that if she couldn't hide it, it might cause even greater trouble, Hu Yifan swallowed his saliva and said, "The two of us went to check out a room. However, I will send her home after everything is done."
Duan Mo tapped the notebook with the other end of the pen: "Time, place. Don't be like squeezing out toothpaste, tell me quickly!"
She rarely spoke in this tone when making inquiries, and she looked quite imposing. Lu Wuchuan wanted to laugh, but the time and occasion were wrong, so he held it back.
Hu Yifan, on the other hand, was startled by her voice and whispered the name of the hotel, room number and time.
That day, Ji Xiaoqing and Guo Xuesong lied and said they had changed their classes. In fact, it was Hu Yifan who invited her to check out a hotel room. The two hung out in the hotel until night before he sent her home.
"What happened after that? Did she contact you again?" Lu Wuchuan asked.
"No, absolutely not." Hu Yifan replied categorically, "I drove home after seeing her off. My sister is at home, she can testify."
"Your sister lives with you? What about your parents?" It's not like Lu Wuchuan wanted to get to the bottom of it.
Under normal circumstances, if a single man does not live with his parents, he lives alone. It is rare for a single man to live with his sister.
Hu Yifan's eyes flashed slightly and he showed a sad smile: "My parents passed away. My sister got divorced last year and temporarily moved to my place."
Lu Wuchuan apologized: "I'm sorry, I don't understand the situation."
"It's been many years, but now that I think about it..." Hu Yifan shrugged, "I almost feel nothing anymore."
"One more question." Lu Wuchuan said, "Except for Ji Xiaoqing, have you ever had that kind of relationship with any other female colleagues?"
Hu Yifan's face turned ugly. After hesitating for a moment, he still didn't dare to hide it: "Yes... there is one. However, it was her initiative, so I... didn't refuse."
"Who is it?"
"Qi Xuan."
Upon hearing the name, Lu Wuchuan immediately asked: "She had a conflict with Ji Xiaoqing, right?"
Hu Yifan was stunned. He didn't expect that the police even knew this.
"It's not really a conflict. It's just that there was a bit of a conflict in time during the class schedule. They were both girls. We had a little quarrel at the time, but they fell out after that."
"Do you still have a relationship with Qi Xuan?"
"No, no." Hu Yifan waved his hands repeatedly, "I broke up with Ji Xiaoqing after we got together. Now we have a normal relationship as colleagues. We rarely talk except for work."
Lu Wuchuan said: "Is she here now? We want to talk to her."
"What are you talking about?" Hu Yifan was a little panicked.
Lu Wuchuan glanced at him up and down: "We are here to investigate the case. There is no need to report to Director Hu what you are asking, right?"
"That's not what I meant." Hu Yifan rubbed his hands, "She is a girl after all. When asked about that kind of thing... I'm afraid she will have a psychological burden."
"This... isn't something you should worry about. Haven't you two already broken up, and you still care about her so much?" Lu Wuchuan just looked at him, as if he wanted to see something from his face.
Hu Yifan was a little embarrassed by what he saw, and coughed twice: "I am the teaching director of the branch, responsible for all the work. After all, I can be regarded as her leader, and I should care about the employees. Well... I'll ask the front desk for her.
Is there any more?”
He grabbed the landline phone on the table and made a call, saying Qi Xuan would be here shortly.
After waiting for almost ten minutes, Qi Xuan leisurely knocked on the door and came in.
Hu Yifan returned to his neatly dressed appearance and said, "Teacher Qi, these two are police officers from the Municipal Public Security Bureau. They want to know something about the situation with you. Please cooperate well."
Qi Xuan's eyes swept across his face, and he forced out a professional smile: "Okay, Director Hu."
"Then you guys talk, I'm going to see how other teachers are preparing their lessons." Hu Yifan found a high-sounding reason and left the office.
Duanmo pointed to the chair opposite and said, "Teacher Qi, please sit down and let's chat casually."
After Qi Xuan sat down, he suppressed the smile on his face: "I have told everything about Teacher Ji to the police officer who came last time. I am very sad about her murder. But we are just ordinary people."
I’m afraid I can’t be of much help as a colleague.”
"The people who came before were colleagues from the branch. Now the case has been officially transferred to the hands of our city bureau's special case team and needs to be investigated again." Duan Mo gave the same official statement.
Qi Xuan nodded generously: "Then you can ask, I will answer truthfully if I know."
Duan Mo didn't beat around the bush and asked, "Have you ever had any conflicts with Ji Xiaoqing?"
As if he didn't expect her to be so direct, Qi Xuan was startled for a moment, then curled his lips: "There was a time when her class schedule conflicted with hers. But this is not a conflict, other teachers often do it as well.
This kind of thing happens. However, the time is relatively close this time, when school started a while ago, so everyone will remember it."
This answer was obviously trying to avoid the most important matter. Duanmo couldn't let her fool her, so he pointed it out directly: "Did you two quarrel?"
Qi Xuan seemed to have heard some joke and smiled helplessly: "How can it be considered a quarrel when the voice is just a little bit louder? Sigh... Some people are afraid of chaos in the world, so they can't believe what they say behind their backs.
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"If it wasn't a quarrel, why did you give her a gift to apologize afterwards?"
"Giving gifts is not an apology, but a thank you. Originally I wanted to give in, but Teacher Ji insisted on giving in. I couldn't resist her and didn't want to owe a favor, so I gave her a bottle of perfume. Who knew Teacher Ji was too polite?
, and he gave me a lipstick in return, which made me quite uncomfortable."
After saying this, Qi Xuan's eyes were slightly red and he sighed: "I was still thinking about finding an opportunity to thank her later. Who knows...but there will be no such opportunity. After hearing the bad news, several of our colleagues felt terrible
I believe it. Teacher Ji is such a good person, how could something like this happen to him? Officer, you must catch the murderer as soon as possible and give Teacher Ji justice."