Talking volubly and at length

  "A girl from a good family, not even married yet and already pregnant...tsk tsk tsk...no matter how you young people look at it, I just can't stand it. But anyway, even if the child hasn't been born yet, after all, it's still your own flesh and blood, right? Guan Xinyue was also heartbroken for a while because she hadn't taken care of her body well and had become dark and thin. But later on, Li Cheng kept coaxing her and sending her gifts, even sent a set of jewelry worth tens of thousands...later on, Guan Xinyue wasn't so sad anymore. Money is a good thing, and besides, she's still young, probably thinking that there will be more in the future...ah, this is just between you and me, I won't say anything else. If Guan Xinyue were my child, I'd rather die than let her be with someone like Li Cheng, not to mention having a child with him. Not to mention anything else, but children born from that kind of man...how ugly would they be? Can you even take them out in public? What's the use of having money?"

  "What was it about that child?" I continued to ask curiously. It was something Ye Qing had never mentioned before.

  Zhu Ling snapped her fingers and calculated for a moment before saying, "I got pregnant about five months ago? Roughly, I don't know the exact date. But I decided to have an abortion three months ago, and I took care of her for half a month."

  "You seem to know a lot about the Li family. No wonder Li Cheng would let you take care of Guan Xinyue." I naturally didn't forget to praise her in a timely manner, so that I could get more information out of her mouth.

  Zhu Ling burst out laughing and shook her head repeatedly, saying: "Hey, you don't even look at who I'm taking care of? I know his parents. It's just me, I don't like to gossip behind people's backs, so he came to me. I watched him grow up as a kid. His parents passed away early, and back then they often came to our house for dinner. The building in front, did you see it? That's the second floor, a small one-bedroom apartment, which was left to him by his father. If Ye Qing hadn't insisted on not living here, he wouldn't have sold his own home either. Ye Qing isn't someone who saves oil, but now she can only turn a blind eye, and her former arrogance has been completely knocked down. We outsiders are also gloating at this."

  Judging from Zhu Ling's tone, Ye Qing's reputation doesn't seem to be very good. No wonder before I came here, Ye Qing would remind me of those words, she seemed to know how others talked about her behind her back. I asked in a timely manner: "Does Ye Qing know about the child?"

  "This is a bit hard to say. Maybe they knew, maybe they didn't. But the two of them did have a big falling out once. I think it was about half a year ago? Or maybe earlier, I only remember that it was already cold outside. Ye Qing brought a few people and cornered Guan Xinyue in that neighborhood with a fierce attitude. At that time, it was really lively, Ye Qing's gang looked very intimidating, holding things in their hands, determined to teach Guan Xinyue a lesson. Just as things were getting critical, Li Boss rushed over from who-knows-where and protected Xinyue with his life. Tsk tsk tsk... the atmosphere was really scary. Although someone intervened, Li Cheng still kicked Ye Qing to the ground. At that time, Ye Qing was wailing and crying, wanting to fight Guan Xinyue to the death. Guan Xinyue, on the other hand, gave me a secret signal, so I called over all the security guards in the neighborhood. After all, Xinyue is also someone who mixes with people in the business world, if she hadn't spoken up beforehand, Li Cheng would have definitely beaten Ye Qing until her face was bruised and swollen. In the end, it was only because of her words that Ye Qing left with a humiliated expression."

  This... is far beyond my expectations, and I'm even more curious, what exactly did Shao Yin provoke? The simple girl in Li Cheng's eyes, the pitiful girl in Ye Qing's mouth, actually had such a glorious moment? The only explanation is that Guan Xinyue really won Li Cheng's favor, but why did he force her to have an abortion if he loved her so much? These are far beyond my understanding.

  "So that's what you mean, Li Cheng is very fond of Guan Xinyue? Has Guan Xinyue ever mentioned anything about marrying Li Cheng?" I asked hastily.

  I didn't expect Zhu Ling to shake her head and laugh: "Ah, you're really not like them. Guan Xinyue never said anything like that, but sometimes... in front of Li Cheng, she seems very obedient, and also... how should I put it? Very good at grasping Li Cheng's heart, but when he's not around, she doesn't seem to care as much?"

  The inside story is indeed complicated, and the relationship between Guan Xinyue and Li Cheng seems to be not as close as Shao Yin thought.

  "I heard that Ye Qing and Guan Xinyue got along well later? Is this true?" I continued to ask.

  "Still not bad? Who are you trying to deceive? This isn't ancient times, with three wives and four concubines, where no woman dared to speak up. It's just that they couldn't control it, so they had to turn a blind eye. But there was that one person, what's her name... Ah, yes! She came over multiple times, wanting to settle scores with Guan Xinyue. Come to think of it, wasn't she the last one to see Guan Xinyue on the day she died? Shouldn't she be the prime suspect? Why aren't you investigating her instead of asking about these things?"

  "That's what the police should do. I just want to see if there are any other clues." I explained hastily, while also thinking about how complicated this matter was, no wonder the police had their eyes on Shao Yin, it turned out that she really had a tense relationship with Guan Xinyue. This made me even more curious, in my eyes, Shao Yin had always been a clever and capable person, why did she become so irrational this time? Since Li Cheng had already decided to end the relationship with her, why didn't she leave? Was it... that there was something good about Li Cheng that I couldn't see, which made her infatuated? I looked at Zhu Ling helplessly and continued to ask, "Apart from these two people, who else did Guan Xinyue have contact with in her daily life? Did she have any friends?"

  "There is, but it doesn't seem like they're too familiar with her." Zhu Ling fell silent, and after a while, she blinked her not-too-large eyes and said: "But then again, there's something I don't know whether I should say or not."

  She leaned in closer to me and said in a low voice: "I don't dare tell others about this. Actually, there was a man who came here looking for Guan Xinyue several times before. He even waited for her outside several times. I asked Xinyue about it, and she said he was someone she didn't know very well. But to me, it didn't seem that way. That man... really looked quite good, standing next to Xinyue, they made a perfect pair. What a pity, what a pity. So, girls mustn't be blinded by money. Money is something you can't do without, but you also can't ruin your own life for it."