Reading Agreement

The sun was just right in the morning, but it was overcast in the afternoon, with heavy dark clouds pressing low above the head, and heavy rain may come at any time.

After parking the car, Shi Zhen went straight to the sixth floor, a Hunan restaurant.

"Have you ordered?" Shi Zhen asked, and sat down opposite Luo Nie.

Luo Niehui: "Boiling fish, Maoxuewang, dry pot bullfrog, lettuce, sour plum soup, fried noodles, cheese pudding."

"Yeah." Shi Zhen nodded without any objection.

"Isn't Gao Yang here?" Luo Nie put down his phone, looked up and saw only Shi Zhen.

"Yesterday he had a fever, let him rest at home today." Shi Zhen simply replied, and then asked: "How is the investigation going?"

Luo Nie held his head and smiled: "Actually, the 'Twelve Branches' have been found, and you have already completed Huang Xing's agreement, but you are still continuing to search for him. Are you curious about the ultimate feast?"

"Yes." Shi Zhen poured himself a glass of lemonade, speaking concisely.

"You don't look like a very curious person either." Luo Nie smiled.

Shi Zhen raised his eyebrows and said: "If you don't enter the game, you will not be curious. If you are in the game, you will be curious about the cause and effect. People are like this."

"Then are you still curious about Gekou?" Luo Nie asked suddenly.

"What?" Shi Zhen glanced at Luo Nie and said indifferently, "It's nothing to be curious about, it's just a place where strangers gather."

"Really, indifferent." Luo Nie curled her lips with her head resting on her arm: "It seems that you are not curious about me either."

"Have people in the village ever looked for you?" Shi Zhen asked casually.

"Eh? Are you concerned about me?" Luo Nie's eyes sparkled, blinking brightly.

Shi Zhen raised his eyebrows and said, "You poisoned the whole village's well water, and the beams are so big. I'm worried that if you come to Yuncheng rashly, your enemies will come after you and affect my completion of the agreement here."

"Shi Zhen, you can't say a good word, can you? You didn't give them an antidote last time, and it wasn't a deadly poison. It's better now." Luo Nie curled her lips angrily, suddenly thought of something, and asked curiously: "Why do you Do you know that I poisoned the well water?"

Shi Zhen said disdainfully: "The collective poisoning must be a problem with the public facilities. What's so strange about it?"

"It's really annoying to chat with you." Luo Nie complained.

"You have been at Luo's family for three years. Where did you hang out before?" Shi Zhen watched the waiter serve the dishes. There was a large pot of boiling fish fillets that was steaming and fragrant.

"You said you were curious about me, so I'll tell you." Ronie held his head in a cheerful mood, his eyes sparkling, and his expression childish.

Shi Zhen raised his eyelids, and said lightly, "The Luo family sent you to Huang Xing, and then to me. It's a routine thing to check the appointed personnel."

"Haha, your reason is really..." Luo Nie laughed, and then said to himself: "Since you are so curious about me, it's okay to tell you. I have been in many cities ABCDEFG, according to the task completion indicators assigned by Songkou , earn money to support myself. I have also stayed in Yuncheng for more than half a year, and I also have contacts, do you want to use them?"

"Thank you, no need." Shi Zhen refused indifferently, and said directly: "Seeing that you are an old employee with work experience, I reluctantly use it, and it can be regarded as adding some experience to you."

"You're really not tactful at all." Luo Nie laughed, took out a piece of oily fish fillet from the bowl, put it on a piece of dry bread to absorb the oil, and said with a smile, "I'm very expensive."

"I've asked Huang Xing to add money to you, so you can rest assured." Shi Zhen watched the waiter serve up several dishes.

"Shall we serve dessert now?" the waiter asked.

"Finally." Ronie replied.

"Okay." The waiter backed away.

"Let's talk, what did you find?" Shi Zhen ate the fish fillet, which was quite tender, but too greasy.

While eating with his hairy belly in his hands, Luo Nie said, "Let's talk about Chasha first, he is the sculptor who opened a studio. He used to be called Xia Qiubai. He was an employee of your company 15 years ago. He was sentenced to 6 years in prison for embezzling 10 yuan. There is nothing to wash away the evidence, and there are no unjust, false or wrongly decided cases. You should know all of this, right?"

Shi Zhen said: "I know. Situ Zhao, the department manager who handled this corruption case back then, is still working in the company, and was attacked recently."

"At this point in time? Because of the corruption case back then, everyone retaliated?" Luo Nie blinked, thinking of retaliation first.

"Probably not," Shi Zhen shook his head: "The company didn't investigate the matter of corruption in the past, and even issued a letter of understanding before recovering the money, so as to avoid Xia Qiubai's heavy sentence. Now he has been released from prison for 5 years, and his life is stable. , It doesn’t make much sense to choose this time period to dwell on the past.”

"That's right, it's not worth it." Luo Nie thought for a while and asked, "Does Situ Zhao have any influence on Xia Qiubai?"

Shi Zhen recalled the phone call with Situ Zhao, and then said: "I didn't have a deep impression. At that time, Situ Zhao had already taken the position of the company's leadership. To him, Xia Qiubai was just an employee who made mistakes, and he was dealt with according to the company's system. It's over, and I don't care much about it."

Luo Nie nodded and asked: "The stolen money of 10 yuan has not been found so far, do you know?"

"According to Xia Qiubai's explanation, 10 yuan was squandered directly." Shi Zhen put forward his own opinion: "However, I have doubts. It's just that it's a long time ago, and I don't want to go into it."

"I checked Xia Qiubai's situation before and after he was released from prison," Luo Nie said of his own investigation: "Before he was imprisoned, he was ordinary, which could not be compared with the word 'spending'. After half a year after he was released from prison, he opened the A studio, until today. His family is ordinary, unmarried and childless. After he was imprisoned, he lost contact with all relatives and had very few friends. After he was released from prison, life was also difficult. Assuming that 10 yuan has been hidden with him, it can help He solves the urgent need, and can also be used as the start-up capital of the business."

"I would rather go to jail than hand over the 10 yuan?" Shi Zhen said with some doubts: "Actually, there is a small bug here. 10 yuan is not considered a huge sum today, nor is it considered a huge sum in 15 years. So for 10 yuan And 10 years in prison, the cost of this crime seems a little too high."

Luo Nie laughed and joked, "Maybe Xia Qiubai is not as enlightened as you, but 15 yuan was enough to pay the down payment for a house in the outer suburbs 10 years ago, and it's not too little."

"Buy it?" Shi Zhen asked with a smile.

"No, the old house I live in so far." Luo Nie shook his head.

"Forget about the 10, did you find the person who went to the material control center to check on Xia Qiubai?" Shi Zhen asked.

"I'll do it, of course I can find it! The man's name is Zhuang Hao, and he left a mobile phone space card, and now he has not been found." Luo Nie said triumphantly: "But I know the content of his inquiry. He chose the material control center The A-level service of the search department checked the information of two people, Situ Zhao and Xia Qiubai, and asked for their detailed personal files."

"We got together." Shi Zhen frowned slightly. He thought Situ Zhao was just checking him out by the way, but he never thought that Zhuang Hao actually checked him out on purpose.

"Somewhere, they all gathered together." There was something in Luo Nie's words.

Shi Zhen is a smart person, he resolutely heard the strangeness, put down his chopsticks, and waited for Luo Nie to continue to play.

"Xia Qiubai, Situ Zhao, and Zhuang Hao don't seem to have much to do with each other on the surface, but they actually have a special time focus." Luo Nie smiled, mysteriously: "This focus happened when Xia Qiubai embezzled 10 yuan and was arrested. One month before the arrest."

"Let's hear it." Shi Zhen listened attentively, he knew that Luo Nicha's content was deeper than he expected.

Luo Nie blinked and jokingly said, "First ask me where I got the information from."

Play like a child.Shi Zhen glanced at Luo Nie, and said unhurriedly: "Yuncheng can check a person in three ways. For A-level or basic information, you can go through the process through the high-level department of the material control center and pass the approval; check deeper personal information. For archives, you must have a certificate issued by the S-level crime bureau; as for checking the life trajectory of corners, you can only go to the dark market. Now you can’t get S, and A-level information is not complete, so there is only the dark market. "

Being seen through, Luo Nie was not happy: "You already know where to check, why do you ask me to check?"

"Because you have connections." Shi Zhen smiled ironically.

"You have it too." Ronie replied.

Shi Zhen treated Luo Nie like a child, and patiently explained: "It's okay for me to check, but I don't have much patience for screening huge data, so it's good for someone to sort information for me. If you don't To help me search and analyze the data, I have to find another person, which is also troublesome. You have also helped me a lot."

"What you said, I'm ashamed to be lazy." Luo Nie smiled, took a piece of lettuce and chewed it carefully, and then said: "These three people went to the Traffic Department of the Crime Bureau together a month before the crime. Handle the accident."

"Oh?" Shi Zhen raised his eyebrows, feeling that the interesting part was coming.

Luo Nie said convincingly: "They were in the same car, and on the highway to D City, they bumped into another car. At that time, the emotions of both parties were quite intense. In the end, the Ministry of Communications resolved the problem. .”

Shi Zhen raised his eyebrows and said, "It's quite interesting for three people in one car to pretend to be strangers to each other afterwards."

"Actually, there are four people in the car. Besides the three of them, there is also a woman." Luo Nie continued to eat fish to post the news, and then sent a traffic accident handling sheet to Shi Zhen, and sent a short accident Recorded past. "I can't get the transcript, but you can take a look at the basics. The video is very blurry and basically useless."

"I think Luo Nie chose the right son." Shi Zhenti smiled, and accepted a JPG picture and an MP4 file.

"How about it, are you suddenly satisfied with me?" Luo Nie blinked and smiled like a child.

"I'm not dissatisfied with you either." Shi Zhen changed the subject without answering directly. He silently looked at the pictures on his phone for a while, zooming in and out, and deliberating over each word.

It turned out that at that time, Xia Qiubai and his party of four, three men and one woman, were driving from the Yun City Expressway to D City at [-]:[-] pm. During the period, the car in front collided with the car behind because of a lane change. .The accident was finally judged to be the former owner's responsibility, and the latter's secondary responsibility. After the two parties negotiated compensation matters, they left separately.

"Xia Qiubai and the others are the car in front, why are they driving in such a hurry to go to City D?" Shi Zhen was quite curious, looked at the picture and asked, "Have you checked the car behind?"

Luo Nie replied: "I've checked. It's a family of three traveling and encountered a traffic accident on the road. I returned to City D after the accident was dealt with. I don't see any major problems for the time being."

"Did you find that woman?" Shi Zhen asked again.

Luo Nie shook his head and replied: "I can't find it. After all, it's not the driver, so I didn't leave any valid information. It was very late at that time, the lights on the road were very dim, and they didn't install a driving recorder, so the image data they could find were blurred to nothing. usefulness."

"The fourth passenger..." Shi Zhen looked at the blurry video, the content recorded by the old equipment, very far away, in a corner of the surveillance.The picture is so blurred that only human figures remain, a bunch of people are mixed together, and it is impossible to distinguish between men and women, let alone others.

"That's all I can find out on the spot." Ronie asked the waiter to serve dessert. It turned out to be a cheese pudding. He asked the waiter to serve three, adding two more.

"You like dessert so much?" Shi Zhen watched silently, but his mind was circling the question of the fourth passenger. It seemed that he needed to talk to Situ Zhao carefully.

"Dopamine makes people happy." Luo Nie happily ate the dessert, and suddenly asked, "Does Gao Yang like it?"

Shi Zhen was taken aback, Gao Yang seemed to be "forced" by himself every time he ate desserts, and he hadn't really investigated whether he liked it or not.So, he hit the edge of the ball and replied: "It depends on the situation."

"Understood." Luo Nie raised his eyebrows and nodded if he realized something.

"Is the hotel okay?" Shi Zhen changed the topic and asked: "The tourism festival is over, you can choose a place you like to live in. Now this one is uncomfortable, and you can change it."

Luo Nie said with a smile: "It's pretty good, I live in this room now, I don't want to change it."

"Okay." Shi Zhen nodded.

"Is there anything else I need to cooperate with?" Luo Nie asked.

"Keep an eye on Xia Qiubai's whereabouts for me, nothing else." Shi Zhen turned off the phone, took a sip of lemonade and said, "I'll go through the clues in my hand first, and then I'll see how to go down."

"OK, no problem." Ronnie gestured OK, smiling childishly.