November 25, 2006. Meeting with Wang Linping. Audio file 03920061125.wav.
"Hello, Ms. Wang."
"Hello."
"You said you had something you wanted to talk to us about. What is it?"
"Um... well... I... I talked with Ning Xue. We talked for a long time. She told me some things... Basically, it was... it was like this..."
"Go ahead."
"Before, when we were sophomores or juniors, Ning Xue lost her keys. She had a new set made. I knew about it. Everyone in our dorm knew. Later, Ning Xue found the keys. They'd fallen under her desk, behind a pile of books. So she ended up with an extra set. She never told us about it. This time, she told me that when Zhang Rou was leaving school and had to return her keys, she couldn't find them. So Ning Xue gave her the extra set."
"You mean..."
"Zhang Rou... She left in May, and Ning Xue stayed until the very end. I didn't see Zhang Rou off. I didn't know about any of this before... The day Zhang Rou left, she spent ages looking for her keys. She couldn't find the dorm key. So Ning Xue gave her the extra set... She saw... Zhang Rou... Zhang Rou didn't look too good... Ning Xue hadn't paid much attention to that set of keys at the time. But now, now that I think about it, when Zhang Rou was looking for her keys, the set she had in her hand seemed... seemed to be..."
"She mixed up the keys. She took Chen Yiqian's keys."
"..."
"Is that what happened?"
"Yes... The keychain... the keys Zhang Rou took out... Ning Xue didn't keep watching closely, but it must have been... Zhang Rou had two sets of keys... Maybe she took... took Chen Yiqian's keys.