I am a super cop

Chapter 1443 No.[-] Old Customer

The matter finally came to light, and everything was as Gu Chen expected.

But the only thing that surprised Gu Chen was that the complex relationship between these people even involved a car accident more than ten years ago.

It can be said that if there was no car accident more than ten years ago, there would be no grievances today.

If it were more concise and clear, if Liu Zhifeng drove without drinking, he would not have broken up a happy family.

But from Hu Tiankai's point of view, he is more conscientious than Liu Zhifeng.

Although he was also one of the perpetrators, at least he chose to adopt Hu Li, so that Hu Li can live comfortably, which can be regarded as the greatest atonement for Hu Li's dead family.

But the timidity in his heart prevented him from facing the facts.

Therefore, this is also the reason why Hu Li couldn't let go after learning the truth.

On one side are her dead parents and elder brother, and on the other side is Hu Tiankai who raised her for more than ten years, which makes it difficult for Hu Li to make a choice.

So Hu Li just had someone set fire to the Golden Horse Furniture Plaza as revenge for Hu Tiankai.

As for Liu Zhifeng, the chief culprit who killed her parents and brother, Hu Li would naturally not let him go.

This also led to the later hiring of murderers.

Generally speaking, the development of everything seems to follow the causal link.

If you want to sum it up, the most damned is Liu Zhifeng who drove drunk, and the most unlucky is Hu Li's family, especially her mother and brother.

If Liu Zhifeng had been a little compassionate back then, then his mother and elder brother might have lived a very good life now.

But assumptions are assumptions after all, and Hu Li also knows very well that the past will never go back, but the root of disaster planted in her heart from then on finally makes Hu Li embark on this road of no return.

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The next day, after completing the work on the sudden death of the rainbow runner in Green Mountain Villa, Gu Chen also notified Zhao Guozhi and Qin Gang immediately.

The two leaders also fully affirmed the efficiency of Gu Chen's team in handling the case.

Since the last few days are high school entrance examination days, everyone's work is busier than usual.

But the high school entrance examination seems to be nothing compared to the college entrance examination.

But for those students who failed the high school entrance examination, it seems that they have to face a dilemma.

Either choose to go to a technical secondary school or a vocational high school, or choose to repeat a year and then take the high school entrance examination, or choose to carry a bucket into the factory and get in touch with the society earlier.

Every year during the summer vacation, it is the peak time for major factories to recruit summer workers.

Even shortly after the high school entrance examination, there will be HR recruited by the factory, who will bring the team to distribute leaflets.

Of course, at this time, mostly summer jobs are being recruited, and some are also recruiting long-term jobs.

But for the factory, it is natural to know that these students who have just graduated from school will naturally not work for a long time, so in terms of salary and treatment, they will not be paid very high.

As for the students, in addition to the unqualified students, there are also some admitted students. The reason why everyone chooses to carry buckets into the factory during the summer vacation is also to earn a certain amount of living expenses during the summer vacation.

7 pm.

Gu Chen took Lu Weiwei, Police Officer Wang and Yuan Shasha to a restaurant near No. [-] Middle School in Jiangnan City for dinner.

This is also the first holiday after handling the sudden death case of the rainbow runner in Green Hills.

Since the case at Green Villa was handled very smoothly, Qin Gang was very satisfied, so Zhao Guozhi also specially granted a day off to allow Gu Chen's team to rest.

Therefore, Gu Chen took advantage of his rare off-duty time to bring everyone to a restaurant near Jiangnan No. [-] Middle School for a small gathering.

"Although this restaurant has a large business area, the price is relatively affordable. When we were studying, we often came here to have dinner with our classmates."

"It's just that the boss has changed now. The old couple were already in poor health and couldn't continue to operate. Therefore, they transferred the restaurant to other people a few years ago, but there is only one requirement, which is to be affordable."

Sitting in the corner, Gu Chen also told Lu Weiwei, Police Officer Wang and Yuan Shasha about the past.

Lu Weiwei said enviously: "It can be seen that the old couple cared a lot about your students back then. Even when they transferred the hotel, they asked the boss who took over to follow the principle of benefits."

"That's right, the students in the iron-clad restaurants pay more attention to word-of-mouth. The word-of-mouth accumulated by the old couple over the years is the best advertisement." Hearing this, Police Officer Wang couldn't help but tease a few words.

After all, there are quite a lot of students eating in this restaurant, so there is a reason why the business is good. The next door is also a restaurant, and the business is obviously not as good as this one.

Therefore, anyone with a discerning eye knows that there are reasons for good business, and word of mouth should be the first priority.

"Here comes your food."

As soon as Police Officer Wang finished speaking, the middle-aged man over there brought up the food that Gu Chen and the others had ordered.

These are some home-cooked dishes, including shredded pork with green peppers, eggplant with minced meat, and scrambled eggs with tomatoes that Gu Chen likes most.

Although they were all ordinary home-cooked dishes, Gu Chen still hesitated for two seconds before picking up the chopsticks and putting them in his mouth to chew slowly.

Seeing Gu Chen eating like this, Yuan Shasha on the side asked curiously, "Senior brother Gu, what's wrong with you? Why do you eat like a little girl?"

"Ah?" Gu Chen was stunned, and quickly explained: "I just want to try, how different is the taste of this dish from back then."

"Then how bad do you think it is?" Lu Weiwei tilted her head and looked at Gu Chen.

Gu Chen smiled lightly, and said, "Overall, the taste hasn't changed much, and it still feels the same. Maybe the old couple also gave advice on cooking."

"You mean the two old people before?" The proprietress was calculating the bill at the cash register, and when Gu Chen said it, she suddenly raised her head and asked.

Gu Chen turned his head and echoed, "Yes, they are the old couple from before."

"Well, they're not in good health." Taking advantage of her spare time, the proprietress walked over to Gu Chen's side, and found an empty seat to sit down first.

But when he saw Gu Chen, he suddenly hesitated a few times, and then began to look Gu Chen up and down again.

Gu Chen was taken aback, and quickly asked, "Miss Boss, is there anything wrong?"

"Is your name Gu Chen?" The proprietress said weakly, as if she was not convinced.

Gu Chen nodded slightly, and took the initiative to admit: "Yes, my name is Gu Chen, but the proprietress, we don't seem to have met before, right? How do you know my name is Gu Chen?"

"So you are really Gu Chen?" Looking at Gu Chen again, the proprietress also smiled and said: "It hasn't changed, it really hasn't changed at all, just wait."

After the words fell, the proprietress stood up directly and walked towards the cashier.

Afterwards, the proprietress picked up the key, opened the middle drawer of the cash register, rummaged through it a few times, took out a color photo, and walked directly in front of Gu Chen.

"Here, see what this is?"

Before Gu Chen could take the photo, Lu Weiwei took a step ahead and held the photo in her hand. Her eyes lit up and she said in surprise, "Isn't this what Junior Brother Gu looked like when he was in high school? He was still wearing his school uniform."

"There is also an old couple around here, could it be..."

Looking up at the proprietress, Lu Weiwei said again: "Could this be the old couple from this restaurant before?"

"Yes." The proprietress nodded slightly, and said with a smile: "I also heard from the old couple that this may be the most promising student in Jiangnan No. [-] Middle School."

"Because Gu Chen finished his college entrance examination and was about to leave here, the old couple couldn't bear it, so they asked Gu Chen to take this group photo with the help of other people during the last meal here."

"Later, the old couple printed out this color photo, put one in the hotel, and kept the other for themselves."

"And the old couple also said that if Gu Chen came back to this restaurant for dinner one day, remember to give him a free bill, count them as a treat, and transfer the money to me later."

"How can I say this? It's just the price of a meal. They don't need to pay it. As long as I see Gu Chen, I will definitely give him a free meal."

Hearing the proprietress's words, everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, feeling that this was too unexpected.

Yuan Shasha said excitedly: "It turns out that eating... can really refresh your face."

"Haha." Officer Wang didn't know what to say, and felt that Gu Chen's face in Jiangnan No. [-] Middle School was really great.

Even the restaurant owner wanted to waive the bill. It can be seen that Gu Chen's popularity in school back then was beyond words.

Gu Chen frowned, and hurriedly asked the proprietress, "Where is that old couple now? Can you still get in touch?"

"Ugh!" The proprietress hesitated for a while when she heard Gu Chen's words.

But soon the sharp-eyed Gu Chen saw it, and hurriedly asked, "What? What happened to them?"

"Well, it's...it's nothing, I guess it's because of my poor health."

"Ma'am, bring a case of beer here."

Before the proprietress finished speaking, there were customers shouting at the other end.

The proprietress hurriedly said: "Come on, wait a moment."

Glancing back at Gu Chen, the proprietress said again: "I'll do my work first, we'll talk later."

"Okay." Gu Chen didn't want to chat with the proprietress when she was busy.

While the proprietress was moving beer behind the cash register, the boss just came out of the back kitchen with dishes and passed by the proprietress.

The proprietress hurriedly reminded: "Honey, that person is Gu Chen."

"Ah?" The boss who was carrying the dishes also stared blankly, and hurriedly asked the proprietress, "Who do you say is Gu Chen?"

"Just that..."

The proprietress carrying a case of beer could only twitch her chin in the direction of Gu Chen.

The boss squinted his eyes, pondered for a few seconds, and finally said: "So he is the Gu Chen mentioned by those two couples?"

"Yeah, it's just him. I didn't expect to meet him today." The proprietress also had a happy face, as if her relatives were visiting.

The boss hurriedly delivered the dishes to the guests' tables, and then hurriedly walked up to Gu Chen and said hello, "So you are Gu Chen? The boss of this restaurant used to mention you to us and my wife often."

"Just in the past few years, we have never met."

"It's also the first time I've come here after graduation." Gu Chen said something, and asked the boss directly: "I don't know how the old couple are doing now?"

"Harmful." Hearing Gu Chen's words, the boss seemed to be disappointed just like the boss's wife's reaction just now.

Gu Chen frowned, and seemed to have an ominous premonition, so he hurriedly asked, "What happened to the two of them?"

"It's just that you're not in good health. What else can you do?" Sitting in the boss's wife's seat just now, the boss also complained: "The bad thing is that his son suddenly disappeared, which made the couple mess up."

"It's not that you wait a little longer." Hearing the restaurant owner's words, Gu Chen hurriedly interrupted: "You just said that the son of the two couples disappeared suddenly?"

"Isn't it?" The boss turned Erlang's legs up, and said involuntarily, "Just two years ago, the couple's son seemed to have a bad relationship with the work unit here, so he went to work in Pengcheng."

"Because their sons don't have much education, they can only go to work in the factory in Pengcheng. I heard that they have found a factory."

"But it's not like you don't know about Pengcheng. The consumption is too high, so the old couple didn't follow them for the time being, and continued to run the restaurant here."

After a pause, the hotel owner also sighed, and said: "This is just the beginning. Fortunately, I can call back once a week, but then it becomes a call every half a month, and after that, there is no contact for a month." .”

"The old couple is also in a hurry. You said it's a holiday, so it's fine if you don't come back to get together, but you can call back? But no, so the old couple called, but no one answered the phone, and they lost contact. .”

"In the next six months, his son has never been heard from."

"Isn't it?" Hearing her husband explaining there, after finishing the work in hand, the proprietress took the initiative to move a small wooden chair, sat next to everyone and said:

"In the past half a year, there hasn't been a single call back. At first, the old couple thought it was because their son lost money playing cards, so they changed the number. They may contact themselves after a while."

"But until the night of New Year's Eve, there was no phone call."

Speaking of this, the proprietress also said unhappily: "The old couple are too pitiful. They left their mobile phones there and waited quietly all night. Both of them are desperate. Do you think something happened to your son?"

"So, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, the old couple chose to call the police. The police also went to investigate, but... there was not much progress."

"So, the son of the old couple has been treated as a missing person."

"Later on, the old couple had no intention of running a restaurant, and their health was getting worse day by day. Later, both of them got seriously ill and couldn't continue to run the restaurant, so they transferred the restaurant to our husband and wife."

"So that's the case?" Hearing what the proprietress said, Gu Chen finally understood.

It turns out that the past two years have not been very good for the old couple.

Thinking of the only sustenance of the two couples disappearing like this, Gu Chen understands the pain of the two old people very well.

You must know that the two old people got married late, which means late marriage and late childbearing. This son belongs to the sweetheart of the two, and has been growing up in doting for so many years.

It can be said that for this son, the old couple gave everything, but in the end, the son disappeared.

This is tantamount to declaring that the sky of the old couple has collapsed.

Gu Chen took a deep breath, and was not in the mood to eat anymore, so he hurriedly asked the proprietress, "Madam proprietress, do you know where this old couple lives now?"

"Well, it seems to be on the old city side of Chengnan Railway Station, near the flyover. I don't know exactly where it is." The proprietress said.

"What about the contact information?" Gu Chen asked again.

"The contact information is available. The old man can use a smartphone. I'll make a video call." The hotel owner quickly took out his mobile phone after hearing this.

Later, in the WeChat address book, I found the old man's contact information, and made a video call directly in front of everyone.

The phone was waiting for "beep beep", but it was not connected.

The owner of the restaurant was anxious, and said in thought: "What's wrong with this old man? Why didn't he answer the phone?"

"Hit one more." Lu Weiwei was also anxious, and hurriedly urged.

"Wait a moment." The hotel owner pressed his left hand, and then made another video call.

At this moment, after two beeps, the call was finally connected by the other party.

A haggard old man with wrinkled face and gray hair, in a dim room at the moment, looked at the hotel owner opposite and asked, "Is there something wrong?"

"Master, who do you think is next to me?" The restaurant owner pulled Gu Chen to his side and pointed the phone camera at Gu Chen.

Gu Chen also smiled slightly, and waved hello to the old man in the camera: "Master, do you still know me?"

"Gu... Gu Chen?" Seeing Gu Chen, the old man immediately rubbed his eyes, fearing that he might be mistaken.

But when he took a closer look, he saw that Gu Chen was still waving to him, the uncle finally smiled at this moment.

"Gu Chen? Is it really you, Gu Chen? I haven't seen you for many years, and you are still the same, the same school grass?"

"Master, look at what you said, I'm just an ordinary middle school student."

"Well, you are not ordinary. From the first day I met you, I felt that you were different from others."

When the old man saw Gu Chen, he was in a particularly comfortable mood, so he had to say a few homely words to Gu Chen:

"I still remember that among the students who came to my restaurant to eat, only you were reading books every day, while the others were chatting on their mobile phones."

"At that time, I felt that this child, who can study hard in such a noisy environment, will definitely have a bright future, ahem..."

At the end, the old man seemed to be overjoyed, and suddenly coughed twice.

So the old man hurriedly covered his mouth with his hands, and took out a tissue next to him to wipe it a few times.

Gu Chen frowned, and hurriedly asked concerned: "Master, are you in poor health?"

"It's...it's okay, but I'm a little older." Hearing Gu Chen's words, the uncle also forced a smile.

"What about aunt?" Gu Chen asked again.

The old man frowned at this time, and seemed to be very embarrassed.

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PS: Actually, in reality, the old couple opened a noodle restaurant, which is affordable and delicious. I have always been a regular customer there. Later, the old couple failed in health, so they had to transfer the shop to other people, and then... just It doesn’t taste like that anymore. In fact, the old couple opened a noodle shop there because their son was working nearby, and they wanted to accompany their son and not cause trouble to him. Like a celebrity couple, they are also very kind to me. This reminds me of another old man, and I will write it in other plots later.

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