Criminal Investigation: Forbidden Rose

The task of investigating the ship was quickly arranged. However, the "going home" system training is almost finished here, and there is no news from there.Xia Yi was really worried about the efficiency of the Yanquan City Public Security: "How is your investigation at the port? Did you find any suspicious ships?"

The policeman in charge of the case shook his head: "No suspicious boat was found. The comrades from Yan'an may not know much about it, but our Dashitan is only a small third-level fishing port, and the annual unloading capacity is only [-] tons. Some of them are offshore operations, where do the long-distance fishing boats come from? You Yan’an Heping Port, that is the central fishing port, but if there are big fishing boats, they will not stop at Dashitan.”

"Not only do we not have long-distance ships here, let alone any boatmen of Southeast Asian nationality. It is not so casual to enter our waters. Consultant Shao's thinking seems reasonable, but it seems... not right On the number..."

Xiao Huang leaned over, and sighed regretfully: "Those psychological profiles always sound reasonable and mysterious to me every time I hear them, but they seem useless in actual combat?"

Shao Lin didn't feel offended when he heard it, he just smiled and said that this is not a formal criminal investigation method in our country, it is still in the scope of research, let's just listen.After finishing speaking, Shao Lin couldn't help but asked what the Yanquan police had investigated.

"The comrades in our team have counted the ships that have moored at Dashiwan Port within seven days, and the registered companies behind them, and there is no ocean-going trade." A little impatience flashed in the other party's eyes, "I also asked the local Residents, there are not many new faces recently, where are the foreigners."

Seeing that the person's attitude was not good, Shao Lin thought that the other party was dissatisfied with an outsider interrupting him, so he nodded silently and said no more.

"Then... since the boat is fine," Xia Yi asked again, "What are you going to do about the corpse?"

"In the national database of missing children, there are no parents who can be matched. Recently, except for Xu Yunfei, other lost children in Yanquan have been found." The policeman in charge of the case sighed, "I don't know what happened to this child. Where did it come from. What to do next, let’s listen to what Mr. Luo has to say, he has more experience in this kind of case.”

In a case with extremely limited clues like this, sometimes the battle line will be very long, but the core driving force is the reporter who vowed to avenge the death of the deceased.However, even the parents of the children who died in this case could not be found. If the police did the most basic investigation and found no clues, the case might be left in the archives room to accumulate dust.

Thinking of this, Shao Lin and Xia Yi felt very bad in their hearts.

Going home for dinner on Friday night, Shao Lin couldn't help asking about Dashitan again.

Shao Haifeng was keenly aware: "Do you want to investigate this case?"

Not to mention Shao Lin, Xia Yi is not suitable to intervene in this case both emotionally and rationally.If you have been busy for a long time without any results, others will think you are meddling in your own business, and if you happen to solve the case, Yanquan will not look good in face, and you will be thankless.

"You guys have helped us a lot by advancing the 'going home' system." Shao Haifeng gave someone a dish with chopsticks, and said in relief, "The task assigned above is completed, so go back early. There are endless cases of injustice, and everyone should perform their own duties and fulfill their responsibilities. If everything you encounter has to be carried on your shoulders, how tiring it will be."

Shao Lin smiled and did not refute.

After eating, Xia Yi only felt that Shao Lin's face was still not very good-looking, and while there was no one around, he stuffed his hands into his pockets and rubbed them together: "Are you still thinking about the case?"

"I thought about it again, but it's still wrong." Shao Lin analyzed in a low voice, "The person who put the Poseidon flower in the suitcase of the deceased must have some kind of connection with Southeast Asia—this is a kind of guilt and fear." , the act of praying for blessings——if you weren’t deeply influenced by that kind of regional culture, you definitely wouldn’t do something that might reveal your identity.”

"And," Shao Lin pouted, it was inconvenient for him to say this in front of outsiders, but he was panicked, "I think Yanquan's investigation is also perfunctory."

"I think so too." Xia Yi's heart moved, "Anyway, we still have a weekend, why don't we go to Dashitan for ourselves?"

Shao Lin nodded, and couldn't help but sigh: "It's a pity, I thought the Yanquan police were more down-to-earth than us, and they would definitely be able to find more clues."

"I don't like to hear what you say." Xia Yi straightened his face, "We all know it in the bureau, and there is no air that your brother Yi can't catch up with."

Shao Lin couldn't help laughing: "Okay."

……

From the residence of the two to Dashitan, it takes about four to 10 minutes to drive across the sea bridge.Although the downtown of Salt Spring is developing rapidly, with buildings rising from the ground and viaducts and bridges growing outward like vitality, the gust of wind does not seem to blow to the big rocky beach—this place is still a small fishing village through and through.

Most of the bungalows in Dashitan Town have no more than three floors. The buildings are mainly in water blue, beige and white tones, and the walls look dilapidated after years of wind and sun.

People who live in this area, almost every household has a small fishing boat. There are colorful new paints, and there are also wooden boats that have been repaired and repaired after a long time in the sand. .A little further away, the "T" wooden plank bridge goes out, and twenty or thirty fishing boats of a larger model are moored, which can be about the height of two people.

It was cloudy that day, and the sea was gloomy and a little black.The cold wind was howling, the seabirds were screaming across the gray sky, and the waves were crashing on the shore. A woman with a headscarf was sitting on a wooden post. With bright orange gloves, she skillfully cut open the belly of the fish and took out a handful of internal organs. With a "snap", she threw the miscellaneous fish into the plastic fish basket covered with crushed ice under her feet.Women handling seafood can be seen everywhere in the coastal fish market, but most of the men have cigarettes in their mouths, mend their fishing nets with their heads down, and occasionally cast wary glances at the two.

This is the busiest "Fish Market Street" on Dashitan.The local police are right. Dashitan is just a small port. It only takes ten minutes to walk from the far left to the right. There are no large international fishing boats at all.

The two walked back and forth on the gravel road, and Shao Lin suggested: "We should talk to the locals."

Xia Yi lowered her voice mysteriously, and leaned close to his ear: "Do you know how to choose an aunt?"

Shao Lin: "...?"

"Look, there are so many aunts on this street, we have to choose the best place to set up a stall, and the one with the least fish left in the fish basket. Most of these aunts are more popular among the villagers, know many people, and hear things. There are too many..." Xia Yi gave Shao Lin a look, and walked over.

The aunt raised her head, saw Xia Yi was looking at her, and immediately greeted her in substandard Mandarin: "Young man, fresh seafood, just picked up this morning!"

Xia Yi looked at the stall carefully, and smiled familiarly: "Sister, do you still have mackerel here?"

"The Spanish mackerel is late." The aunt's dark face was full of wrinkles, and she grinned her white teeth. "The Spanish mackerel is the most beautiful. I just caught it, and it was all snatched up early in the morning. There are only these left in my stall. Look at it." See what you want."

Xia Yi poked Shao Lin with his elbow: "I can't even name one of them, what do you want to eat?"

Shao Lin glanced at it. Most of the remaining fish were crooked and cracked, either in poor quality or with a fishy and thorny taste.

The aunt shook open a plastic bag, and said with a smile: "Young man, it's the first time, I don't think I've seen it before."

"Yes." Xia Yi smiled slightly, "My sister has a good memory, and I can remember the face of the guests."

When the aunt saw such a handsome young man calling her "sister", she was so happy that she started to talk a lot: "What a good memory, the people who come to our place to buy fish, except for the middlemen, are those aunts and uncles who live nearby." , I know everyone who comes and goes. In our business, there are basically no young people. Young people are either on a long-distance ship or going to a big city to enjoy themselves!"

Xia Yi had a sweet mouth, and after coaxing a few more casual words, she learned about the general ecology of Dashitan fishing village from her aunt.Shao Lin quickly extracted several information points——

First, Dashitan itself is a very traditional and closed fishing village. The permanent residents are mainly middle-aged and elderly people. It is enough for aunts to chew their tongues for a long time, so there are really no foreigners.

Second, the small boats on the beach are like Da Ma, and they are all local fishermen who fish offshore.Some of the fish caught are sold to local residents, and a larger part will be bought by intermediaries, that is, those medium-sized boats parked in the port-these are exactly the ones that the Yanquan City Government arranged to check.

The intermediaries are of course companies registered in the mainland. They neither fish nor go to sea. They just buy fresh fish in large boxes and sell them to other distributors in the mainland at a higher price.Naturally, there can be no ocean-going ships among these fishing boats.

On the whole, Dashitan is indeed not a long-distance voyage point, or even a supply station.

"Sister," Xia Yi squatted by the side of the booth with a curious look on his face, "Can we see the long-distance ship you mentioned? I really want to see the big fishing boat at the pier!"

"You young lads all like big boats, but you can't see big fishing boats here," the aunt pointed to the pink leaflets on the telegraph pole not far away, "here—— They are all recruiting here, if you want to see them, why not ask over there."

Xia Yi regained his spirits all of a sudden: "Okay!"

In order to thank Auntie, Shao Lin picked up five catties of miscellaneous fish, and added ten yuan more, and asked Auntie to remove the bones and grind them into meat paste.The aunt took the money, and ran across the road to look for the machine with a smile on her face: "This kid, at first glance, is an expert in eating fish."

Xia Yi scratched his head puzzledly: "There is still a lot of care in picking fish, why do you have to smash it into mud?"

Shao Lin raised the corners of his mouth slightly in the sea breeze, and said in a warm voice: "Go back and add some egg white, salt, pepper and starch, and make delicious fish slips for you."

Xia Yi's eyes lit up with a "swish".

After wrapping up the fish, the two went straight to the job advertisement for "Long-distance fishing boats are looking for sailors".Fishing boats go to the high seas, and they go there for as short as 1-2 months, or as long as a whole year.The salary in the advertisement is not cheap, and the highest annual salary can be as high as hundreds of thousands, but other than that, there is no other information, not even a mobile phone number, just that you can consult the "Sailor's Bar" specifically old money.

This "Sailor's Bar" is not hard to find.

Because there is only such a bar on the entire Dashitan.

On the wooden board in the shape of a pirate ship, the words "Sailor's Bar" are sketched out with LED lights, and a few dusty decorative wine barrels are piled up underneath... But it is also such a shabby little bar that gathers All the vitality of Dashitan at night.

There's cheap beer, cheap women, and all sorts of things to know about living by the sea.

As soon as Xia Yi and Shao Lin entered the door, all eyes fell on the two of them, curious and probing.Xia Yi was not afraid of those gazes, and directly said in a rough voice: "I'm looking for old money, and I'm asking about the fishing boats on Yuanhang."

"Good time, just in time!" At the edge of the small round table, a strong man with a big beard stood up and waved to people, "He is about to tell our little brothers about the long-distance ship!"

Xia Yi glanced at it, and saw two men and a young man sitting at the table - by the looks of it, he was estimated to be just an adult, thin and thin, and he was barely twenty.

At the same time, Lao Qian also looked Xia Yi up and down, and his eyes quickly fell on Shao Lin again, with a trace of doubt in his eyes: "But brother, you two... are you going to board the boat?"

"Hey," Xia Yi waved his hand, and his words were very sincere, "Didn't I see your advertisement saying that you can earn 80 million yuan a year? To tell you the truth, I resell some small commodities in this city. It’s just such a small amount of money, I just fancy the income, I’m greedy, and I want to explore the way.”

Old Qian nodded frequently: "You are tall and big, I think you are the master who can board the boat. But this little brother..." He looked at Shao Lin and frowned: "Is it true that we earn a lot by boarding the boat?" Not much, but let me put my ugly words first, it's all hard money. I think this white person is probably..."

"This is my good buddy." Xia Yi interrupted, "He is very worried about me, but he is worried that I will get on the boat, and he is afraid that I will be cheated, so he also wants to come and listen together."

"So that's how it is!" Old Qian felt that this was the right number, and said with a smile, "Then sit down and listen together. These three people here are also here to consult about the Yuanhang Ship. Yes Alright, what's your name?"

"My surname is Chen," Xia Yi smiled, pointing at Shao Lin, "this surname is Xia."

Shao Lin: "..." Why was it named after her head?

"Okay," Lao Qian raised his wine glass and saluted, "Xiao Chen, Xiao Xia!"

After a few glasses of wine, the sailor blushed and boasted about his years of working as a fisherman across the oceans. What kind of hull fell freely from the cusp of the storm, what big waves rushed into the cabin, and everyone on the boat almost explained there, those countries that passed along the way, those fishing The big fish that passed by, a boat with a full load is worth tens of millions, and a big house was bought as soon as I got home...

Hearing this, the little boy's eyes straightened, and his eyes were full of dreams for the future.

"What I can't bear to say on the boat is that there are no women." Old Qian cursed, "The year we went to European country N, my god, the eggs were all hatched into birds. So, this Little brother, elder brother advises you, before you get on the boat, you must take care of the matter of turning you into a man, so that you can have something to think about after you get on the boat."

All the men at the table laughed, but the young boy smiled shyly.

"I'm just curious." Xia Yi tapped his index finger on the round table, "I feel like you will meet foreign colleagues on the ship when you go out with the ship, go to the high seas, or go to other countries?"

Lao Qian thought for a while and said: "Yes, there are, but the score depends on which company you follow. Some companies have them, and some companies don't. However, most of them are from Africa and Southeast Asia. There are fewer Westerners...why, you still want to make foreign friends?"

"Let's go to sea, one is for money, and the other is for gaining knowledge," Xia Yi smiled, "I'm squatting in this small county, so it's good to know foreigners. Old Qian, please introduce me , which companies can meet colleagues from Southeast Asia?"