broken dust

Chapter 23 Epilogue 1

When it was almost noon, Shen Gu received a text message from Fu Yumian.

"Do you want to know who your favorite actress met before she announced her retirement from the showbiz?"

Such a "threatening" tone, Shen Guli didn't want to respond: "She's gone, I don't want to."

"He's someone you can't even imagine? Guaranteed to surprise you. See you at Yanmo Cafe on West Street in the city center at 12 noon. You will regret it if you don't come."

What Fu Yumian said is really easy to arouse people's curiosity, and Shen Gu is also a person who likes to meddle in other people's business.

Previously, he had always hoped to use the convenience of this summer to "communicate" with Li Yanfei, but unexpectedly something happened this summer.

Honestly, this thing is really weird.

Shen Gu intends to attend the appointment.

Shen Jihe was sitting on the sofa watching the economic news, when he saw Shen Gu call to order takeaway and put down the remote control, he complained: "I finally came to you for a while, just for your cooking skills, and you didn't open the fire at noon for a long time."

Shen Gu said: "No way, I have to go out at noon. Besides, there is no food at home."

Shen Jihe asked, "Where are you going?"

Shen Gu seemed to have a premonition in his mind, and deliberately concealed it: "Oh, there is something wrong with Luo Qian, I want to go over and discuss it."

In order to keep him from being lonely and boring at home alone, Shen Gu ordered: "You can rest for a while after lunch, you can go out to buy vegetables in the afternoon, and I will cook for you in the evening."

After he was about to go out, Shen Jihe stopped him and handed him a light blue thin windbreaker.

"Bring clothes, it might cool down if it's late."

"Okay." Shen Gu put on the windbreaker and went out in a hurry.

grocery shopping?It's funny how Shen Jihe thinks.I'm afraid he can't even tell the difference between garlic sprouts and shallots.

The matter of grocery shopping can only be done by Lao Songwen, he thought.

He planned to spend three days here with Shen Gu and then go back to work, but Shen Gu didn't know that he was going to stay here for three days.In order to offset a little bit of guilt in his heart, and to help Shen Gu solve the case as soon as possible, so as not to be dragged by the case every day and not free, he decided to help him.

All he can do at Shen Gu's house is to help with the investigation and surveillance. Last time, he dragged away Shen Gu who was inspecting the surveillance in Yujing Villa. I've been here for many days and probably haven't seen anything.

Anyway, Yujing Villa is its own site, so checking the monitoring can also check the service quality of your own company by the way.

But he didn't just stare at the monitor, could his eyes be more powerful than the criminal investigation team's many eyes?He had already asked for the list of invitees for the charity dinner at Shidu Hotel last time.

If the theft of the jewelry box at the charity dinner is related to Qiao Qiao's death, and if Gao Bai's death is also a sequel to Qiao Qiao's case, then there must be some overlap between the two.

People who appeared in these two places at the same time must be related to Qiao Qiao's case.

Here, since Luo Qian posted Ying Zhiyuan's missing persons notice, he never expected that the first person to call him would be Yu Ge from the downtown detachment.

"Listen, Lao Luo, something must have happened to Ying Zhiyuan."

Luo Qian's nerves tensed immediately: "What's going on?"

"The last time I went to Shidu Hotel to investigate, I exchanged phone numbers with him. I installed a positioning system in his mobile phone. This positioning system is connected to my mobile phone. Under normal circumstances, it will not touch the alarm system of my mobile phone. .When the person who is located takes a mobile phone and goes out of a certain place more than three times, the system will automatically recognize this area as a safe area and will not call the police."

"And what if he arrives in a new place?"

"Then my mobile phone will display his location. Some places are in urban areas, and I can conduct security investigations, but two days ago my mobile phone showed his location in a high-speed mountainous area, and then there was no signal."

"Have you sent someone over to check?"

"I've checked. After seeing the missing person notice you posted, I immediately took the team to search and found the last mobile phone, but I searched the whole mountain and found no one! So I suspect that something must have happened."

"Wait a minute," Luo Qian's gossip physique went online again, and he couldn't grasp the point at all and interrupted him, "Isn't your case over there solved? Why don't you put it in someone's phone if you have nothing to do?"

Yu Ge over there was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, how could he have the time to explain to him slowly, "You old boy, is now the time to ask these questions?!"

"My brother~ Why are you so angry, am I just asking casually?" Feeling that the person on the other end of the phone seemed to crawl out of the phone and throw a grenade at him, Luo Qian quickly put away the gossip radar, "You Hurry up and send me the location of the disappearance of the source, it seems that relying on the missing person notice alone is no longer effective, and now the two teams are working together to use the disappearing location as the center of the circle to launch an all-round search!"

"That's exactly what I mean. You come over and meet Xiao Qiu directly. I'll go to the TV station and use the power of the media."

"Okay, then do it!"

After Luo Qian hung up the phone, he rushed to the urban detachment.

It was [-]:[-] when Shen Gu arrived at the gate of Yanmo Cafe on West Street in the urban area.

The coffee shop is located at the corner of Wutong Lane on West Street.For some reason, Shen always felt that this position was very familiar.

Yanmo Cafe is a very distinctive coffee shop.The reason why it is very distinctive is because the overall design style of this cafe is very interesting, with the theme of time travel.The cafe is divided into three styles from left to right, which are neoclassical style, Nordic style and modern industrial style.From the Berger easy chair to the simple square table in log color to the cement-like industrial wall brush, the design all shows a strong sense of time and space changes.The three spaces are separated by glass, fully see through without interfering with each other.Not only can you enjoy hundreds of authentic coffee drinks here, but it is also a holy place for taking pictures.

There is only one shortcoming: the cost of coffee here is very high, so the consumption layer is strictly isolated.Especially according to these three different styles, the starting consumption prices are different. The neoclassical style space on the far left is generally a gathering place for celebrities, rich and famous.Below the innermost clock decoration wall, there is also a celebrity photo signature wall.

However, Fu Yumian's "operation" still showed her inflated vanity as always.

She spends directly on the purse field, which is still the far left of the bag, and then the consumers in the other two areas are watching her through two pieces of glass.She dressed herself up like an 18th-century princess, with a lake-blue dove-egg gemstone necklace on her neck, matching exaggerated gemstone earrings on her ears, white lace gloves on her arms, and a heel A matte crepe tutu skirt in the same color as the sunflower in Van Gogh's "Sunflower".

She enjoyed the envious eyes of the people outside the two glass walls, but when Shen Gu entered the door, he thought he had gone to the wrong set, and the people in front of him were playing cosplay.

"Brother Shen, are you here?" Fu Yumian waved at him from afar.

He nodded at her in return, then walked over and sat down across from her.

"Two cups of civet cats!" Fu Yumian said to the waiter at the side.

Before turning around, the waiter with black tie was stopped by Shen Gu.

"Just give her a glass, I don't need it."

"No!" Princess Fu Yumian got angry and acted like a baby to Shen Gu, "This is delicious, why doesn't Brother Shen want it?"

Shen Gu said with a blank face: "I don't have a big appetite like Miss Fu, and I can drink the cat's shit!"

"You!" Fu Yumian blushed immediately, and she couldn't bear to get angry in front of outsiders, so she said coquettishly, "Brother Shen speaks so vulgarly? If you don't like it, we can just change it."

Shen Gu doesn't have time to chat with her, it's not worth wasting time on such a trivial matter, he said to the waiter: "If you have tea, just serve me a pot of tea, if you don't, give me a cup of latte, give her fruit raccoon."

The waiter was relieved, wrote down the list and hurried to the backstage.

In less than 5 minutes, the Kung Fu waiter brought a cup of latte and a cup of civet cat.Fu Yumian started chatting again, from the history of the establishment of this cafe to the footsteps of celebrities who have been to this cafe, chatting happily without mentioning the purpose of this trip at all.

"Xiaoyu, should you talk about something serious, I'm really short on time." Shen Gu interrupted patiently.

Fu Yumian's mouth was dry as he was talking, and two sips of a cup of coffee worth 500 yuan was enough.She pointed at the coffee cup to the waiter to signal for another cup, and then she said to Shen Gu:

"Okay, I can tell you the reason why the actress quit the showbiz, but you have to make sure you don't overturn the table."

Shen Gu fully agreed.

After Fu Yumian checked again and again, she took out an envelope from the handbag and handed it to Shen Gu.

"It's all here, don't be angry."

The envelope had no edges, and after Shen Gu opened it, there were more than a dozen photos inside.

Seeing the photo, his face suddenly changed.

In the photo, this summer wearing gorgeous costumes stepped into Shen's villa opposite Yujingshanzhuang, and when she left the villa it was rainy, and of course there was Song Min who helped her into the car.

Song Min.

It is not known who she went to see.

Shen Gu didn't say anything, just flipped through a dozen photos back and forth with a gloomy face.

"Brother Shen, are you okay?" Fu Yumian stretched out her hand and waved it in front of his eyes, but he completely ignored it.

"Brother Shen, I know you like this woman very much...No, this sister, but so does the second brother. The second brother is not only doing it for my own good but also for yours. I believe that if Uncle Shen knew about it, he would do the same."

Shen Gu still didn't speak, and now all he could see in his mind was Shen Jihe's face.

He didn't think about it any further, but silently took out a lighter and lit the photo, melting it into the saucer holding the coffee cup.

"Brother Shen?"

"I'm fine." He smiled slowly, "He's doing it for my own good, I know, and I also believe he didn't hurt Jin Xia, he's always been a weak person."

"What did you just say?" He asked uncharacteristically.

"What?" Fu Yumian was a little dazed, and then realized, "I just said that many celebrities like to sign autographs and take pictures when they come to this coffee shop. This place is like a time machine - it is easy to drag people's thoughts back to the past."

"is it?"

He was suddenly as gentle and bright as when he played the piano at the dinner party with her back that day, but Fu Yumian was inexplicably nervous.

He won't stay the same as that day again, suddenly change his face and throw her down again...

"Here," she got up and took him to the photo wall behind her, "Look here, there are many celebrities taking pictures and signing autographs."

"This is mine from three years ago." She pointed to the middle photo, and then pointed to the bottom photo, "I signed this today. The clerks here are very good. When celebrities come, they always Will find a way to convince them to sign autographs."

He seemed a little dazed again, and his thoughts unconsciously flew to Shen Jihe.

"Brother Shen?" Fu Yumian pushed him.

"Well," he forcibly pulled back his thoughts, "Okay, I've read the stuff with you, and listened to what you said..."

Just as he was halfway through his words, his eyes suddenly fixed on the Chapter 2 photo on the left of Fu Yumian's last photo.

"I'm sorry to ask, what time did the person in the photo spend here that day?"

The cashier was a girl of eighteen or nineteen years old. When Shen Gu handed her the photo, she immediately exclaimed unabashedly, "Ah, Li Yanfei!"

"That's right, that's Li Yanfei," Shen Gu pointed at the person in the photo and said anxiously, "The date signed on it is the day of Qixi Festival, what time is Qixi Festival?"

"This..." The little girl showed embarrassment, "I haven't found this photo if you don't take it here...Because I come here to work part-time when students have no classes, so the time is usually not too late or too long... ...Well, let me ask the store manager for you."

The little girl picked up the photo and went backstage, while Shen Gu waited beside the cash register.

There were people coming and going outside, looking out from the side door next to the cash register, you could just see a red telephone booth at the corner of Wutong Lane.

Yes, no wonder it is so familiar.West Street, Wutong Lane, the corner, the red telephone booth, these are the locations where the monitoring was incomplete as described by Luo Qian.

At eight o'clock that night, Qiao Qiao received a call on his mobile phone, and the call was made from the red phone booth.

If Li Yanfei is around here around eight o'clock...he can find a chance to interrogate Li Yanfei again.

"Brother, I asked," the little girl came out with a photo, "Our store manager is here 24 hours a day, and Li Yanfei did come on Qixi Festival, around [-]:[-] in the evening, because it happened to be on TV at that time. "Crossing City News" was playing, and the Qixi Festival was very busy that day, and there was not enough manpower, so she remembered it clearly because our store manager personally entertained her."

"Thank you!" Shen Gu took the photo with his mobile phone, returned the photo to the place where he left the coffee shop, and left Fu Yumian, who was flamboyant, stunned in place.

The onlookers on the other side of the glass wall didn't think it was a big deal, they started pointing and gossiping, and some even took pictures.

She finally knew what it meant to lift a rock and shoot herself in the foot.

Shen Gu immediately called Luo Qian to tell Luo Qian this clue, and he demanded that Li Yanfei be interrogated immediately.

Luo Qian was in the detachment in the urban area at this time, and he told the story of what happened to Yu Ge one by one.

At this moment, Shen Gu received a call from Shen Jihe.

"Shen Gu, where are you now? Are you still in the criminal investigation team?"

"Ah, yes, I'm still in the criminal investigation team."

"I found a clue here, which should be helpful to the progress of your case. I asked for the list of the last charity dinner, and checked it with the surveillance outside the hall of Yujingshanzhuang... You should know what I'm talking about What do you mean?"

"Well, I know," Shen Gu felt excited and nervous for some reason, he couldn't help swallowing, "You think that if Qiao Qiao's case is related to that reporter's case, you should find something in common."

"Yes, I found out that there is a person on the list of the charity dinner who appeared on the day the reporter was killed in Yujingshanzhuang..."

"Li Yanfei?" This thought suddenly flashed in Shen Gu's mind, and he burst out.

"Ah, yes, you know?" Shen Jihe was a little surprised, "It's the actor, but he went to Yujingshanzhuang very early, at noon, and the reporter went at night, so there is such a big time difference, so the police must be sure Ignored a bit, but there's something weird about it..."

"what?"

"I checked the video that night, but I didn't find him driving away. I called the staff there and they said that Li Yanfei booked an overnight private room, and he didn't leave until [-] o'clock the next morning."

Shen Gu's brain was running fast, and he began to recall all the details when he found Gao Bai's body.

"Is there an underground garage in Yujing Villa?"

"No, but their cars are parked at the back of the villa. There is a chicken farm next to it. If they want to leave the villa, they have to drive around the chicken farm and then pass the gate of the villa. The gate is monitored."

"So, the parking area behind is not monitored?"

"No, there is a mountain behind the chicken farm, and there is a high fence over there. No one will pass except the people from the villa."

"I see." After the excitement and tension, he was unusually calm. "Li Yanfei didn't leave early the next morning at all. He left at night with Gao Bai, that is, the reporter. He drove the drunk Gao Bai, and then After arriving at the lake, move Gao Bai to the driver's seat, and finally pretend to be a drunk driver and fall into the lake!"

"That……"

"Ji He, you have done a great job this time," Shen Gu interjected impatiently, "I will take immediate action here. You should take a good rest at home and cook for you when you come back tonight."

Shen Gu hung up the phone, closed his eyes and recalled all the clues from his involvement in assisting the investigation of Qiao Qiao's case:

Qiao Qiao was killed at 10 o'clock——Li Yanfei appeared at the phone booth around [-]:[-]—Li Yanfei appeared at the jewelry box auction—the box was stolen that night, and Yu Ge solved the case. The thief was a staff member who transported items to Li Yanfei—released by Gao Bai Video——Li Yanfei and Gao Bai appeared in Yujingshanzhuang—Gaobai fell into the lake—the bank card was intercepted and Li Yanfei was found to transfer [-] yuan to him—the jewelry box was appraised, and it was dropped——

The source should stop missing!

He had a clear and definite judgment on the case in his head.

He hurriedly called Luo Qian again, "Did you just say that you and the city team searched along the last mobile phone location of the source?"

Luo Qian didn't know, so, "Yeah, what's the problem?"

Shen Gu said: "No problem, hurry up and send someone to find out where Li Yanfei's recent trips are, and see how far it is from Yingzhiyuan's mobile phone location."

Luo Qian hurriedly sent someone to investigate, and found that Li Yanfei's recent itinerary was concentrated in the Binhai area of ​​Ducheng, and it was strange that his official itinerary was a hotel ribbon cutting and a new drama conference in this area, but the news broke in the morning He was absent from the press conference due to illness, so he called Li Yanfei's agency to contact Li Yanfei's agent. The agent said that Li Yanfei was hospitalized in a hospital in Binhai.

Then the police contacted the hospital, and the special nurse there found that Li Yanfei insisted on going out with excuses and did not return to the hospital.

Luo Qian told Shen Gu about this series of news.

Shen Gu asked: "Is Ying Zhiyuan's last location close to the Binhai press conference and the hospital?"

Luo Qian said: "As far as it is not far, the last location left by Ying Zhiyuan is on a mountain, and the area down from the mountain is a pier."

"Wharf?" Shen Gu thought for a moment and said, "Now you find the location of the hospital where Li Yanfei lives, the location of the ribbon-cutting press conference at the hotel, and the last location left by Yingzhiyuan on the map, and then connect them to find the center. Click to see where it is."

After smearing on the map for a while according to what Shen Gu said, Luo Qian found that the center point was miraculously at the pier.

"How could this be?" Luo Qian was puzzled.

Shen Gu explained: "Ying Zhiyuan disappeared in the past two days. Li Yanfei will definitely have many people following him on this trip, so he must put Ying Zhiyuan in the most convenient location away from his range of activities to reduce risks. At the same time, generally Every crime has a so-called criminal safety psychological area, and what I just asked you to link up is his psychological safety area."

After Shen Gu finished speaking, Luo Qian immediately took people to search around the pier.

For two days, Ying Zhiyuan has been missing for two days. If you pin all your hopes on the search, the risk is too great.Shen Gu made an important decision right now.

He took out his mobile phone and found the mobile phone number of Li Yanfei, whom Luo Qian wanted to meet in advance, and sent a message:

"It's been two days. I believe you haven't gained much. The video tape you want is here with me."

Half an hour later, he received a reply: "Waterhouse B-203 at Binhai Wharf, come alone."

Shen Gu replied "Yes" and decided to go to the appointment.

It seems that all speculation is not just speculation.