Behind the Murder Volume I

Chapter 10: Surveillance Video

After chatting with the workers for a while, Zhong Han finally decided to leave after saying that he had had enough of their conversation. He said goodbye to them with a giggle, and then he and Gu Xiaofan rushed back to the city center before the last suburban bus.

"Why did you treat those people to skewers and beer? Don't you think it's a waste of time to listen to them spread those hearsay things?" On the way to the bus stop, Gu Xiaofan continued to follow Zhong Han closely and asked with some confusion.

"Apart from the official news reports, do you usually pay attention to some gossip and anecdotes on the Internet?" Zhong Han asked instead of answering.

Gu Xiaofan nodded: "Yes, but it's just entertainment, I just watch it casually, I won't take it seriously."

"If you don't take it seriously, it doesn't necessarily mean it's not true. There are many things in this world that are based on hearsay, but there are few things that are groundless. Even if there are interpretations, fictions, and later processing elements in it, the formation of rumors still needs a little bit of facts as a foundation to be successfully derived. Sometimes it depends on distorting a fact, and sometimes it depends on adding embellishments." Zhong Han didn't want to be mysterious, and expressed his thoughts without hiding anything. "The management of the factory has revealed in their words that Ren Xuefeng has never been a pushover when it comes to women, and the workers in the factory have rumored that Ren Xuefeng has kept many mistresses outside just to have children. Which type do you think this rumor is most likely to belong to?"

Gu Xiaofan answered the question almost without hesitation: "Of course, the kind that adds extra details."

"That's right," Zhong Han nodded. "Sometimes, the less involved someone is, the more they dare to say whatever they know. How much of it is factual and how much is exaggerated is up to the listeners to figure out. On the contrary, those who have bigger interests involved will be timid. They may know a lot of things, but they dare not say a word."

Gu Xiaofan seemed to understand something after hearing what he said: "So the people in the company made Ren Xuefeng and Xu Ruobei sound like a perfect couple, but a different version of the story appeared in the factory, revealing a lot of dissatisfaction with Xu Ruobei, as well as the not-so-harmonious things between Xu Ruobei and Ren Xuefeng!"

"Yes, you just heard it. Originally, Ren Xuefeng's focus was on the factory, and Xu Ruobei helped deal with the company's affairs. So when she intervened in the factory, the factory management generally disagreed with her interference, and Ren Xuefeng did not seem to support his wife's behavior. But Xu Ruobei used to be in charge of the company. Now that Ren Xuefeng is in trouble, Xu Ruobei, as his wife, will be the only big boss in the company in the future. The jobs of the employees there are in Xu Ruobei's hands. Whether or not to offend the dead is one thing, but at least everyone understands that they can't afford to offend the living one."

"Everyone has their own calculations. These people are so realistic!" Gu Xiaofan thought about it, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that what Zhong Han said made sense. "To be honest, I think that sales manager just now must know whether Ren Xuefeng has a woman outside, but he just doesn't want to tell the truth. Maybe it's just like you guessed, the rumors spread by those workers outside who are not afraid of being implicated may really hide the truth!"

"What do you mean by 'blind'?" Zhong Han was a little dissatisfied with Gu Xiaofan's adjective and pointed at his temple. "That's called wisdom."