Special Case Investigation Team VI

7 o'clock in the evening - it gets dark here late, and it doesn't enter the night until 8:7, and the sky is still very bright at [-] o'clock, but Cheng Jin and the others come to eat according to the time, although it is not dark yet, it still started their dinner.

Halfway through the meal, Cheng Jin received a call from Lao Pu, asking where they were and why they haven't come back—haven't they gone to his house to pick up their bags?

Cheng Jin: "We have something to do today, can I go to your place to get the bag tomorrow morning?"

"Okay." Lao Pu agreed.

After dinner, in order to avoid running into Lao Pu when going out—this village is not big after all, Cheng Jin and the others did not go to the elementary school, but had a conference call with Gan Zhiliang and Miao Hao.

Gan Zhiliang first said that on the day Zhu Yong went to the snow mountain to pray for blessings, two tourists who gave up their trip when they were one valley away from the finish line saw a villager with a bamboo frame on the mountain.

Because the two tourists remembered the general appearance of the villager, Gan Zhiliang and the others successfully found each other afterwards.

The villager's name was Geng Tiancai, an employee of the Maverick Hotel. He said that he went to the mountain that day to pick up mountain goods.

Cheng Jin: "Have you checked his call records? Did he make or receive a call before the snow-capped rock fell that day?"

Gan Zhiliang shook his head: "No."

"Maybe he has other mobile phones?" Xiao An said.

Gan Zhiliang: "He only has a mobile phone number under his name, but maybe he borrowed someone else's mobile phone that day, or even he has a mobile phone number that has not been authenticated."

But these cannot be confirmed.

"What size shoes does he wear?" Cheng Jin asked.

"I've checked, and his shoe size doesn't match the size of the footprints on Xiaoyue Lake and Snow Mountain."

"Yes. Thank you for your hard work." Cheng Jin said, "By the way, please also note that Mavericks are the shoes of Niu Taifeng, the owner of Mavericks Hotel. His shoe size should match."

When he went to the Mavericks Hotel earlier, Cheng Jin observed the opponent's various physical data, but the suspicion of Mavericks was not as great as it is now, so he did not list the opponent as a suspect simply because of the shoe size.

Gan Zhiliang: "Okay. Let's take a look at his shoes tomorrow."

Miao Hao spoke next. Today, he and his colleagues are mainly investigating the situation of Lao Yu, the driver who drove Zhu Yong when he was in a car accident last year.

"Among all the colleagues, Lao Yu and Lao Niu have the best relationship. They are both old employees of Jinmeng Villa and both are drivers. According to Lao Yu's family, after the car accident, Lao Niu often went to see Lao Yu. , and sometimes have a few drinks with him.

"On the day when Lao Yu died of alcohol poisoning, Lao Yu's family was out, but the neighbors said that they saw Lao Niu nearby that day, but they were not sure if he entered Yu's house. We asked Lao Niu himself, and he said that he was just passing by , did not enter Yu's house."

"Did no one else go home that day?" Cheng Jin asked.

"No one has seen it."

"okay, I get it."

Next, Cheng Jin talked about his achievements: he found the drone that Qu Zhefei lost, but it did not capture the assailant.

"That's it for today, everyone go to bed early." In the end, Cheng Jin ended the conference call with these words.

After that, Xiaoan finally went to play in the water as he wished. Cheng Jin and Yang Simi didn't join in the fun. They went back to the bedroom to watch a movie. Yang Simi originally wanted to ask Cheng Jin to dance, but Cheng Jin sternly refused: " Not in the mood today."

Yang Simi was a little confused: "Not in the mood?" Cheng Jin had always indulged him in this kind of personal matters, so that this sudden refusal made him very uncomfortable.

"Yes."

Cheng Jin put down the curtain and started playing the movie.

The two sat on the bed, Cheng Jin watched a movie, and Yang Simi watched him.

"Is it in a bad mood because the case didn't progress?" Yang Simi asked.

"Half."

"The other half is because I took a picture of you with my mobile phone?" Yang Simi asked again.

Cheng Jin looked at him, then lowered his eyes and remained silent. After a while, he raised his eyes to look at the movie screen.

Yang Simi leaned forward and turned his head to observe him, and found that he was not watching a movie, but was in a daze.

After waiting for a few minutes, seeing that Cheng Jin still hadn't recovered, Yang Simi adjusted his posture, crossed his legs to face Cheng Jin, and shook his hands in front of him.

Cheng Jin looked at him, and said after a while: "It would be embarrassing to expose a private matter, maybe you can't understand it."

"Understandable." Yang Simi said, "I won't take pictures outside in the future, is that okay?"

He was not talking about ordinary photos, but private photos that Cheng Jin minded.

Cheng Jin: "...You mean you want to shoot at home?"

"Why can't I shoot at home?" Yang Simi said, "After the shoot, it will be locked in a safe, which is close to 100% safe, so can't I still shoot?"

Cheng Jin: "Close to 100% safe?"

"It's possible to choke to death when eating and drinking, isn't it?" Yang Simi said, "Maybe someone will try their best to break into our safe, but I think his probability of success is the same as being choked to death when eating and drinking." The probability is about the same.”

"..." Cheng Jin found it difficult to refute.

Yang Simi approached him, looked at him, and said in a childish and cute tone, "I'll let you take pictures too."

Cheng Jin was amused by him, looked at him helplessly, then held his hand, stroked it for a moment, and said with a smile, "Let's watch a movie."

Yang Simi: "Then you have to replay it, I didn't watch the previous ones."

"I didn't watch it either." Cheng Jin dragged the progress bar back to the beginning.

Yang Simi went back to the bed and sat down, grabbed the pillow next to her and stuffed it behind her back.

Twenty minutes after the movie started, Yang Simi said, "Actually, it's an old problem. You don't like getting out of control."

"Ah."

"Actually, you can still overcome it." Yang Simi said.

"Well. But I don't want to get over it right now."

"Are you kidding me?"

"...Let's watch a movie."

"I also want to ask you if you want to hug me."

"Yes. Come here."

The next morning, as soon as Cheng Jin went out, he heard Xiao An's wailing: "Boss, I can't do it anymore. I seem to have just returned from a marathon, and I'm already useless."

"..." Cheng Jin looked at Xiao An who was paralyzed on the sofa, and asked Ye Lai with his eyes: What's wrong with her?

Ye Lai explained: "I rode on a donkey yesterday."

Cheng Jin said: "Then you stay in the hotel today to rest?"

Xiao An immediately turned over and sat up: "It's not that serious."

Cheng Jin shook his head and smiled.

After breakfast, Cheng Jin and the others went to Lao Pu's house to pick up the bag.

Lao Pu has gone out, and Xiao Pu is waiting for them at home.

After getting back the backpack, Cheng Jin and the others headed to the village primary school.

Sitting on the elementary school student's stool, Cheng Jin put on the earphones and began to listen to the recording of the mobile phone that was put in the backpack yesterday.

Yang Simi was sitting next to him playing with his mobile phone, and now he was playing with Cheng Jin's mobile phone.

After a while, Cheng Jin moved, and Yang Simi looked at him.

In the recording, the voice of the visitor that Cheng Jin was looking forward to appeared, but it was different from what he had guessed earlier. The person who went to Lao Pu to inquire about their situation was not Xiao Niu, but another person.

At that time during the day, probably because I have been staying with tourists all the time, Lao Pu and Xiao Niu both speak Mandarin.

Now the two people in the recording are speaking in dialect.

Cheng Jin handed the earphone to Yang Simi: "Simi, listen to it for me."

Yang Simi listened for a while, and said, "I can only understand part of it, let them help you." He looked at the local policeman sitting nearby.

Let it out for everyone to hear.

Gan Zhiliang listened and translated: "The master calls this guest Lao Niu, does this guest sound like the driver Lao Niu of Jinmeng Villa?"

He looks at his colleague.

A colleague nodded: "I think so."

Another colleague said, "That's him."

Lao Niu came to Lao Pu to rent his donkey, saying that Jinmeng Villa needed a donkey for something.

After talking about renting a donkey, Lao Niu began to ask Lao Pu about Cheng Jin and the others.

"Who are they?"

"Why are they looking for that drone?"

"Did they find the drone near Jianshigou?"

"Did they stay in Jianshigou for a long time? Did they fly drones there?"

"I heard that drones can fly into ditches and holes to take pictures, can their drones work?"

"..."

After listening to the recording, Ye Lai said: "This old cow seems to be very worried about what photos we will take with the drone."

Miao Hao: "This old cow is the father of the owner of the Maverick Hotel. Both father and son seem a little suspicious."

Cheng Jin opened the map on the tablet and said, "The Jianshigou mentioned by Lao Niu refers to the deep stream next to the old road we went to yesterday?"

A policeman familiar with this side said: "Yes, the ditch is very deep, and there are some pointed rocks at the bottom of the ditch, so everyone calls it Jianshi Ditch. The road is very dangerous, and donkeys and horses have fallen down. In the early years before the new road was built, a tourist almost fell off, but then the government said that the road must be repaired, and then built a new road."

Gan Zhiliang: "It seems that Jinmeng Villa donated a lot of money when the new road was built, right?"

"Yes."

Cheng Jin dragged the map, took a look at the overall situation, and then zoomed in on the Jianshigou area. After staring at it for a while, he said, "I want to go here again."

He looked at Xiao An.

"... want to ride a donkey again?" Xiao An said bravely, "I can do it!"

"How about getting a motorcycle?" Cheng Jin looked at Gan Zhiliang and the others, "Can I borrow a motorcycle?"

Gan Zhiliang hesitated and said, "Should it be possible?"

In the end, they borrowed three motorcycles, one for Cheng Jin and Yang Simi, and the other two were driven by local policemen, responsible for taking Xiaoan and Ye Lai respectively.

Among them, the policeman who is very familiar with Snow Deer Valley is also one of the motorcycle drivers. His surname is Shan, and his colleagues call him Xiaodan. He is responsible for taking Xiaoan.

Both Cheng Jin and Yang Simi haven't ridden a motorcycle for a long time, Cheng Jin: "Shall I try first?"

Yang Simi nodded.

Cheng Jin tried it, and it went well.

Then Yang Simi tried it too, but he didn't get off after he tried it, and asked Cheng Jin to get in the car, ready to leave.

"..." Cheng Jin put on his backpack, sat on the back seat, and complained in a low voice, "You don't even let me ride a motorcycle."

Yang Simi: "Motorcycles are more dangerous than cars."

"I don't think so."

"You don't need to think, I just tell you."

"..."

Step up the gas pedal and drive all the way, first on the cement road in the village, then on the main road outside the village, then turn on the old dirt road, reduce the oil and brake, and the motorcycle stops beside Jianshigou.

After getting off the car, Cheng Jin looked back, but the other two motorcycles hadn't arrived yet.

"Now I agree with what you said just now that motorcycles are more dangerous than cars. Can you not be dangerous if you drive at this speed?"

Yang Simi: "You're so stupid, it's not cars that are in danger, but people."

"It's dangerous for you to drive—" Cheng Jin suddenly realized, "You mean I'm dangerous to drive?"

Yang Simi looked at him innocently, pretending that she didn't know what he was talking about.