Episode 4 recap: The case of Gu Ji Ming is full of doubts.
The handwriting on the postcard does not seem to be that of a man. If you want to investigate further, you will have to go to Fanghai City. When Jiang Guang Ming went home to pack her things, her husband thought she was going to separate from him and quickly tried to stop her. Jiang Guang Ming got into an argument with him, and after the argument, she went straight into the room, and the husband regretted it.
On the bullet train to Fanghai City, Jiang Guang Ming studied Shi Luo, and although a good memory is not as good as diligent writing, some things need to be remembered in the mind so that the known clues can be connected to find the right breakthrough point of the case. Upon arriving in Fanghai City, Wang, the head of the police station, had already made prior arrangements, and Jiang Guang Ming and Shi Luo obtained their credentials and went to visit Gu Ji Ming.
Faced with the arrival of the two detectives, Gu Ji Ming appeared very calm and said that the urban village mentioned in the novel was something he had dreamed about. As for the postcard, Gu Ji Ming said he had no memory of it. The questioning ended there, and Jiang Guang Ming and Shi Luo left. They then encountered Su Zhen Zhen, whose wheelchair was uncontrollably rolling down a slope, and they held the wheelchair and reminded the aunt that going downhill requires going in reverse, otherwise it's very dangerous.
Back home, Su Zhen Zhen did not tell Gu Ji Ming about the incident just now. Seeing two cups on the table, she asked if there were guests, and Gu Ji Ming lied that two friends from the literary society had come, telling the lie without a flicker of hesitation. Jiang Guang Ming believed that Gu Ji Ming had recognized Shi Luo, but why he pretended not to know him was puzzling.
Next, they continued to investigate the postcard, and after inquiring with postal employees, they learned that this type of postcard was mailed through a mailbox, and many mailboxes have now been removed, but there is still one on Haibin Road. The Haibin Hotel is just near the mailbox, and the two went to the hotel to inquire. They learned that when Tang Xun checked into the Haibin Hotel, his face was injured, and the housekeeper who cleaned his room 201 was called Jiang Na, but Jiang Na had left the job for a long time.
Shi Luo tried to contact Jiang Na using the phone number provided by the other staff, but the number was no longer in service.
On June 21, 2018, Tang Xun checked into room 201 of the Seaside Hotel with a suitcase and a brown travel bag. Jiang Na had just finished reading one of his novels, so she recognized him.
In the evening, a colleague mentioned Tang Xun's brown bag to her, suspecting that it contained at least several hundred thousand, because Tang Xun always carried that brown travel bag wherever he went. Rewinding to April 5, 2019, which was Qingming Festival, Gu Ji Ming returned to the magazine office, got the chief editor drunk, and then secretly deleted all the past submission records from the computer, and also emptied the recycle bin, effectively erasing all trace of the submissions.
In the middle of the night, Gu Ji Ming woke up to find Su Zhen Zhen gone, and she said she had gone to get some water. Gu Ji Ming acted calm and collected, hugged her back to bed, saying he also needed to use the restroom, but instead went to check the computer in the study, where the most recently used file was a group photo of the literary society members.
Recalling that he had told Su Zhen Zhen that Jiang Guang Ming and Shi Luo were his friends from the literary society, Gu Ji Ming knew that Su Zhen Zhen was suspicious. The next day, he invited Jiang Guang Ming and Shi Luo to the seaside, and without leaving a trace, he tried to extract information from Shi Luo, but Jiang Guang Ming interrupted in a timely manner and took Shi Luo away.
Shi Luo actually had more questions he wanted to ask, but Jiang Guang Ming's words made him realize that he had been the one who was questioned by Gu Ji Ming, not the other way around. Gu Ji Ming's strategy was twofold - to extract information and to make Su Zhen Zhen abandon her suspicions about him.
When there was no one around, Gu Ji Ming used his phone to search online for news reports about the case from the previous year.
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