Swallowing the Seas

"The last time I heard about Baokang was on May [-]st. That day the police station called me and said that he threw a beer bottle downstairs again and almost hit someone. I said don't come to me for such things in the future, you guys If you want to catch it, just catch it, go in and lock it up for a few more years, just in time for me to take back that little house, so that my husband won’t have any objections to me in his heart.”

Meng Zhao frowned slightly, his eyes were concerned, and his eyes were full of serious listening.The woman sitting across from her smiled wryly, lowered her head and wiped the corners of her eyes: "It's ridiculous, isn't it, officer? I used to love him so much. My daughter was reluctant to buy her the yellow mutton for her high school entrance examination. I bought whole slices of stewed lamb." So I sent it to him, and I only thought that he is the only righteous root of our old Gao family, my brother's only son, isn't it natural for my sister to help my brother?..."

Gao Xia is not a few years older than Meng Zhao, but she looks much older than her. Her shoulders are always slightly hunched, as if she has to grit her teeth to carry her inherent humbleness and cowardice all the time—if you look at it from the outside Look, she is so different from Gao Baokang, who has a flat head and splayed eyebrows, who almost wants to write the word "manly" on his face.

Meng Zhao let out a long sigh and asked, "Then does he keep asking you for money now?"

The sigh of understanding hit Gao Xia's heart, and the grievance that this haggard middle-aged woman usually held back and dared not tell anyone spontaneously arose: "Want money?——You know that when Baokang was just arrested I got caught and my husband finally couldn't stand my divorce, what did they do to me? My dad called me back to my hometown and scolded me half to death! He also said that I didn't take good care of Baokang and didn't give him money early Buying a house and getting married only made him commit a crime and go to jail. It was to kill old Gao’s family! What kind of life did I live in those two years? My husband didn’t want me anymore, and my daughter didn’t recognize me anymore. I still think that my divorced woman is unlucky..."

Gao Xia obviously choked up a sob and quickly restrained herself.

"Later, my husband was soft-hearted and said that my daughter could not live without a mother. He took my daughter and remarried with me, and then I was rescued from the pit of fire. Who knew that Baokang was released from prison within a year of remarriage, and he started calling again to ask questions. I want money and a house, and if I don’t give it, I’ll be scolded! It’s nothing more than scolding. My parents also call me from my hometown all day long to ask me to give him the money for my daughter’s going abroad. White-eyed wolf! I didn't dare to answer the phone until later, I still have my own life to live, my husband and daughter to take care of, should I get divorced again and go back to be their cattle and horses?"

Gao Xia wiped her eyes heavily with her palm, Meng Zhao grabbed her wrinkled hand and patted it comfortingly: "What did you do afterwards?"

"I blocked both his and my brother's numbers," Gao Xia sniffed hard, and said, "But I didn't block my parents. After all, I can't really be unfilial... Sigh!"

Meng Zhao was noncommittal: "Have they contacted you recently?"

"It's gone after the accident on May [-]nd...wait a minute." Gao Xia suddenly remembered something: "So, at the end of last month, my dad called to ask for money, and what he said was quite strange. "

"What?"

"He said, Baokang has no money to spend now, you, as a real aunt, look down on him like this, and when he makes a lot of money, you can't lick it if you want to. I said he can make a lot of money, don't engage in pyramid schemes again Right? My dad said triumphantly that Baokang is now very capable, and others will send money home to ask him to help 'make things right'!"

——It's all right.

The clerk in the corner of the inquiry room, Liao Gang who pretended to come in to pour water, and several criminal police officers who were listening with earphones... Even Meng Zhao's expression changed.

Gao Xia's long-term sensitivity to people's eyes made her immediately notice something was wrong: "What, what's wrong? I, I..."

"Sister Gao," Meng Zhao tightened his grip on Gao Xia's hand, looking earnestly at her wrinkled and tired eyes: "Can you write me your parents' address?"

"...Then we contacted the Public Security Bureau of H Province and went to the Fifth Production Brigade of Hulu Village, Xingyang County, Gao Baokang's hometown. Money. The old couple was also taken away to the County Public Security Bureau, and they confessed after a few scares..."

The sun was shining brightly at noon, and the streets of the county town were bustling with each other. The sidewalks were narrowed by vendors selling clothes, fortune tellers, and fruit.A jeep parked along the street, the driver's window was facing the signboard of a fast printing shop called "Kaitai Tuwen" across the road, and people in the shop could be vaguely seen through the glass of the front door.

Bu Chonghua withdrew his gaze, and took a few mouthfuls of boxed lunch: "How is it?"

"At the end of last month, Gao Baokang took a 'friend' back to his hometown, and gave his grandparents 10 yuan in cash and asked them to help them keep it. He said it was given by that 'friend' and asked him to help 'make things right'. Come back to get the money when the rumors pass in a month or two." Cai Lin chomped on the pizza his parents ordered to be delivered to the Public Security Bureau on the other end of the phone, and said vaguely while flipping through the faxed transcript: " The two stayed for about three or four days before leaving, saying that they were going back to Jinhai to prepare some things. Since then, they have never contacted their family members. The two elders have been bragging to the outside world that their precious grandson is busy doing big things. Until two days ago The old lady thought her grandson was out of her mind, so she couldn't help but make a phone call to ask, but Gao Baokang turned off the phone, and the triangular positioning of the technical side has not been fixed, and the machine card has probably been separated."

Gao Baokang's loss of contact only represents two possibilities. The first is that he has died in the Sili River on a rainy night, which means that the police will spend more energy to find out the connection between the two murdered girls; the second is that He has already run away, and he would rather throw away the 10 yuan he got, which shows that he clearly knows that he has entered the police's sight, in other words, the police have leaked rumors that should not be leaked.

Either way, it is very bad news for the current case.

"What does that 'friend' look like?" Bu Chonghua asked.

"The local police station visited the neighbors of Gao's family, and they said that he was a short, fat man in his 30s and [-]s with a slender eye and a fleshy nose. He had a mottle on his eyebrows, which was quite obvious. We scanned Li Hongxi's photo. I confirmed it to the locals, and they all said they hadn’t seen it.”

Gao Ling's parents had never met Li Hongxi, and it was not Li Hongxi who paid 10 yuan to buy Gao Baokang as the murderer, but the fetus in Gao Ling's womb did indeed have a parent-child relationship with Li Hongxi.

More coincidentally, according to the tracking code analyzed by the technical team from the cult propaganda book, it can be determined that the book was printed by a Xerox DC8000; and based on the sales records provided by Xerox Chinese dealers and second-hand stores, the police traced In Ninghe County, this fast printing shop called "Kaitai Tuwen" - Ninghe County happens to be Li Hongxi's hometown!

So what role does Li Hongxi play in this dangerous and bizarre case?

"Find a way to draw a sketch of the characteristics of Gao Baokang's friend, and intensify the questioning of Li Hongxi's parents and wife." Bu Chonghua picked out the fishbone with chopsticks, and said in a deep voice, "The person surnamed Li has such a great connection with this case, pillow It is absolutely impossible for people around to not hear the news."

"Yes!"

Bu Chonghua turned off the car's Bluetooth, and before the chopsticks could put the piece of fish maw into his mouth, suddenly the passenger seat door clicked open.

At that moment, Bu Chonghua showed excellent reflexes and pinnacle accuracy—his face sank like water, his wrists did not move, and when he tossed the chopsticks, the fish maw drew a dexterous and wonderful arc in mid-air, "Slap!" It fell into Wu Yu's lunch box on the passenger seat without even splashing a drop of soup.

"Are you back?" Bu Chonghua said indifferently, "I have a good piece of fish in my bowl. I picked out the thorns for you. Let's eat."

Wu Yu got into the car with the file bag of "Kaitai pictures and texts", and couldn't help being stunned when he heard the words: "Thank you...thank you, captain."

Bu Chonghua remained calm: "It's nothing, it should be."

Wu Yu thanked vaguely, picked up the lunch box and began to gobble it up, while Bu Chonghua took out a few pieces of warm printing paper from the file bag - the "PEP Mathematics" that Sister Meng had just downloaded from the parent group of her son's class. Answers to Unit [-] Combing Questions"——Take out the laptop and portable scanner, and scan those few sheets of paper into PDF format.

"How is the store?"

"Just one shop owner, in his fifties. There are no windows and back doors in the shop. You can block people in if you go in through the front door later. There are two machines, one is Konica Minolta, and the other is our target Xerox DC8000." Wu Yu paused, and asked suspiciously: "...Why is this fish not as delicious as the Chaoshan Casserole Porridge last time?"

After the technical team tracked down the printer, Bu Chonghua immediately issued an assisted investigation notice, requesting the local public security bureau to monitor Kaitai's pictures, and decided to bring people to Ninghe County in person for the arrest and follow-up interrogation.However, Cai Lin, who was going on a business trip with him, had an accident before his departure. He was greedy for Malatang in the middle of the night, and succeeded in eating diarrhea; There is a special dish in He County called tofu fish, and Wu Yu volunteered to go on a business trip.

Wu Yu sandwiched half a piece of fish: "...it's a bit rough."

Bu Chonghua glanced at him, did not answer immediately, but sent a PDF email to Director Wang who was waiting at his desk hundreds of miles away, closed the computer, turned off the scanner, and then looked at Wu Yu, calmly typical:

"It's rough because it's just an ordinary grass carp, and the one you named and killed last time, its scientific name is Dongxingban."

Wu Yu: "..."

After a moment of silence in the car, Wu Yu swallowed: "I don't need to be reimbursed for the ten yuan that I printed just now."

The bluetooth on the car rang, and it was Director Wang of the technical team: "Hello, Bu? Are you still in front of the Neituwen store?"

"How about it?"

The donkey face surnamed Bu was not in the bureau, and even the air was a little sweeter. Director Wang's work efficiency suddenly increased by at least 8000 percent, and he said refreshedly: "The analysis result is out, the printer model DC68 serial number KR3117945686P[-], It is the same as the tracking serial number of Gao Baokang's "Have You Heard the Voice of God", it must be typed out by the same machine, arrest people!"

Without saying a word, Bu Chonghua hung up the phone, picked up the walkie-talkie, and spit out two words neatly: "Action!"

At the end of the street, on the opposite side of the road, and in front of the parking lot, four unremarkable private cars suddenly started at the same time, lined up and slowly stopped in front of Kaitai Tuwen Gate, vaguely forming a siege.Several plainclothes men got out of the car and pushed open the door of the store. There was a commotion in the store in a short time. It seemed that someone was panicking and wanted to rush out, but was held down immediately.

A few seconds later, the store door was opened again, and the chubby print shop owner, who was five or sixty years old, was escorted back and forth by local plainclothes, and pushed him into the car while yelling at him.

"Okay, got it... You guys arrange for an interrogation first, and I'll see you at the Public Security Bureau later."

Bu Chonghua briefly answered the report on the other end of the channel, and switched off the walkie-talkie. At this moment, Wu Yu was looking at the car's Bluetooth display with strange eyes:

"The note you gave Director Wang is Wang Ertu?"

Bu Chonghua threw the walkie-talkie to the back seat with his backhand, and said flatly, "What, you want to betray me?"

Bu Detachment is indeed a top-notch handsome guy in the police force who caused the girls from the art school next door to jump over the wall to watch when he was in college. Characters - east, star, spot.

"..." Wu Yu said, "How can I? I'm the kind of person who betrays my superiors?"

Bu Chonghua smiled slightly, and suddenly the clouds and snow cleared: "Yes. Last quarter's allowance and subsidy haven't been paid yet, and I don't think you should be."

Wu Yu: "..."

Bu Chonghua seemed a little happy. As soon as he stepped on the accelerator, the jeep turned on the lights, turned, merged into the busy county road, and drove towards the Ninghe County Public Security Bureau.

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Click!

With a light click of the shutter, the tail of the jeep drifting away froze on the screen of the phone.

In front of the "Kaitai Graphics" store, next to the sidewalk, a fruit seller lowered his head, pressed down his sun hat, and pressed the send button.

Hum - only a few seconds later, the phone displayed an incoming call, and before the ringtone rang, the "hawker" immediately pressed the connection, and then a young female voice came from the phone, without a word of greeting, straight to the point: " Nothing more clear?"

"I can't take pictures, sister, that kid saw me." The peddler looked around from the corner of his eyes, and lowered his voice amidst the hustle and bustle of the road: "When he was crossing the road head-on, there were so many cars and so many people behind him. I stared at it. Fortunately, I reacted quickly, and immediately turned the camera to take a picture of a passing girl. After a while, he came out of the fast printing shop. I thought he couldn’t see behind him, right? As a result, he went to the shop first when he left the shop. Looking around, his eyes looked like X-rays, I just waited until he was almost at the edge of the car door to take a sneaky photo... What does this kid do, his vigilance is really evil!..."

A female voice interrupted him: "Who is that waiting for him?"

"It should be a policeman. He got out of the car halfway to buy a meal. He is quite tall and looks good, but he doesn't feel like an easy mess." The peddler paused, and his voice became lower: "What should we do now?"

Horns, yelling, impatient scolding and chattering bargaining... No one noticed that behind the cart selling fruit, a peddler was hiding in the shade of a tree, holding his mobile phone close to his ear while looking at him with treacherous eyes. Keep looking around.After a long time, I don't know what was said on the phone, he lowered his head, a trace of cruelty flashed across his face:

"I understand, Miss Yin... yes, yes, no problem."

"Don't worry, just wait for my good news."

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The slender fingers painted with bright red nail polish cut off the call, and dropped the phone on the table with a slap. A face with perfect makeup but no expression was reflected on the screen.

There was no movement around, and no one dared to make a sound.Those delicately drawn eyes stared at the blacked-out phone screen without blinking. After a while, she suddenly grabbed the phone again, pressed her fingers until the veins bulged, and opened the text message she had just received.

Two secretly photographed pictures appeared horizontally in her line of sight, one was a jeep driving towards the intersection, the rear license plate could be vaguely discerned; the other was clearer, showing a young man with his back to the camera, of medium build, With thin shoulders, he was walking through the traffic to the opposite side of the road.

He was wearing an old washed and yellowed T-shirt and big shorts, and he just walked with his head down, his posture was slack and loose, he looked as if he had just come out of a street food stall, and was about to hang out for an afternoon, or find a few friends who had nothing to do Go to an Internet cafe and stay in the dark all night.

"That look is like an X-ray... What does this kid do? He's so vigilant!..."

Sister Yin's bright red lips showed a hint of irony.

"Of course you have to be careful, don't you?" She whispered to the back with a smile, "If you make a mistake again this time, no one can die for you."

"I'll just say I'm not mistaken, are you sure it's an old rival?" A man wearing a baseball cap and anti-smog mask asked with a smile.

The subordinates in the room looked at me and I at you, but Sister Yin didn't make a sound.The man sighed leisurely, and persuaded half-truthfully: "If you want me to say, this matter is almost nothing. People have been dead for so many years, dust returns to dust, what kind of enmity can't be overcome? Look. Sister Yin's status is decent now, compared to the past..."

An arc of light pierced his face, and the man fell back like an electric shock——

Boom! !

The blade brushed against the tip of his nose, and sank three inches into the wooden table in an instant!

A section of the shining knife tip pierced through the bottom of the table, crackling and crackling, and cracks in the paint silently crawled all over the table.

The room was dead silent, and there was no sound.Sister Yin slowly released the handle of the knife and stared at the man condescendingly, her dyed curls hanging from the side of her neck to her chest.

"Where's the stuff?" she asked word by word.