What I had seen last night really hadn't happened without a reason.
By the time I saw that security guard in the middle of the night, he was already dead.
He had been soaking wet, which matched the way he had died.
He had drowned in the river, so he had been covered in water.
Afterward, he had led me to the pool and shown me the corpse in it to tell me that his body was still in the river.
He had been leaving me clues...
I carefully recalled what had happened when I saw that corpse.
At first, lotus leaves had covered the corpse's face. Only after they drifted apart did I see it.
That face had been very red...
Someone who had drowned should have had a very pale face...
What would make someone's face turn red?
Drinking?
Meng Yifan and I often had to drink with clients for business, but we both flushed when we drank. A single drink turned our faces as red as a monkey's butt.
Could that security guard have been drinking, then accidentally fallen into the river and drowned?
No.
He must have been murdered.
Someone might drown after drunkenly losing their footing, but being drunk didn't necessarily mean they would drown.
There was no such coincidence in this world. I had only just gone to see him yesterday, and that very night, he had gotten drunk and drowned.
I thought that if someone had pushed him into the river while he was drunk, he would still have died by drowning. No one would suspect that someone had given him a shove before he fell into the water drunk.
Besides, he hadn't gone home at all after getting off work last night, so no one knew who he had been drinking with.