I am a super cop

Chapter 2398: Doormat Physique [Two in one chapter]

The proprietress took everyone to a seat by the window, took the initiative to pour a glass of water for them, and said:
"Actually, when I saw your IDs, I guessed that it must be my best friend's husband who asked you to come here to find me."

"No." As soon as the boss lady finished speaking, Gu Chen explained: "We are here to investigate ourselves, because your bestie's loss of contact was a bit sudden, so we need your cooperation."

"Okay." Sitting across from Gu Chen and others, the proprietress was also worried and explained:

"Ever since I heard my best friend's husband say that my best friend has been missing for a long time, I have been very upset."

"These days, I also try to call my best friend's phone number, but there is always no answer."

"This makes me feel a little uncomfortable. After all, every time they quarrel, my bestie always runs to my house, but this time, she didn't get any contact with me and just disappeared."

"If I hadn't tried my best to explain this to her husband, her husband would have thought I was covering for his wife."

After saying this, the landlady also sighed heavily, as if her expression revealed helplessness.

Lu Weiwei asked her curiously: "I heard that every time your best friend quarrels with her husband or runs away from home, she always comes to your place, right?"

"Yes." Faced with the police's questioning, the lady boss didn't hide anything?Instead, he said straightforwardly:
"My best friend, after all, is a bit pretentious."

"A bit pretentious?" Officer Wang looked a little surprised after hearing what the landlady said.

The landlady nodded silently and couldn't help but said: "Yes, it's just a bit pretentious."

"I know, it may not be good to say this about her, but if you know her character, you will know that the word 'zuo' is the most appropriate word."

"What should I say?" Yuan Shasha was a little confused.

The landlady grinned and explained, "She's not a very good person before. You have to let her go when you want to get along with her."

"You just can't let her suffer any injustice. If you make her feel uncomfortable, she will have all kinds of conflicts with you."

After a pause, the landlady continued to explain: "Her husband had a very good personality and tolerated her infinitely, so the two of them got together."

"We have lived together for so many years. At home, her husband is the one who spoils her."

"So, you don't see anything at ordinary times? But once two people quarrel over something, it will be serious."

"It's easy to be unreasonable. Even if it's her own fault, she can still blame her husband."

After saying this, the landlady also laughed, feeling that it would be quite ridiculous if she continued to say this.

Gu Chen, who didn't understand what the landlady meant, continued to ask, "Can you be more specific?"

"To be more specific, my best friend actually doesn't have a good personality at all. She might be easier to talk to customers."

"But to her husband, she is a princess. Although they are both almost 40 years old, at home, my best friend just wants her husband to take care of her like a princess."

"Anyway, whenever we have a quarrel, she will call me to complain, and then tell me to bring some clothes and come to my house for a few days."

"Then you indulge her in this way?" Listening to what the landlady said, Lu Weiwei suddenly felt that it seemed that the landlady of this noodle shop was too indulgent of her best friend.

But the noodle shop proprietress said indifferently: "She and I have known each other since childhood. We are from the same village."

"She has had this kind of personality since she was little, and I'm used to it."

"Besides, everyone is working here in Jiangnan City, far away from their hometown, and they don't have many relatives or friends."

"It's actually good that we can visit each other occasionally. Sometimes, she will buy some things and bring them to my house for dinner together."

With a faint sigh, the noodle shop owner's wife also grinned: "So, although I feel that she is being very pretentious, we are friends. If something is unpleasant, we will all open our hearts."

"Moreover, I often tell her that she is too pretentious in front of her. She admits it herself, but she just can't get rid of this bad habit."

"It seems that you have a really good relationship." Listening to the noodle shop owner's explanation, Gu Chen felt that the friendship between the two indeed surpassed that of many people.

The landlady picked up the tea in front of her, took a sip, and then said:
"Actually, I feel very sorry for her husband. At home, he is always being blamed. You have to say, my best friend is easy to deal with, but sometimes she is unreasonable and she can throw the blame to her husband."

"The key is that her husband compromises every time, so there is nothing we can do about it. Sometimes when her husband occasionally becomes tough, she will feel unbalanced and then feel that her husband does not love her."

"After that, I just took a few clothes and ran to my house to stay for a few days."

Shaking her head, the noodle shop owner also smiled angrily and said, "So, I know these habits of hers."

"Every time, she would be angry for a few days, and then her husband would apologize in various ways on the phone, and then come to my house to take her back."

"But I don't know what happened this time? She turned off her mobile phone and said she ran away from home, but she didn't come to my house."

Shaking her head, the noodle shop proprietress said helplessly: "I don't know what my best friend is thinking about?"

"No matter how much she misbehaves, she should at least tell us in advance? This time, I feel like she's a little misbehaving."

"Huh?" Listening to the noodle shop owner's story, Lu Weiwei suddenly felt that in the noodle shop owner's mind, her best friend who made pancakes seemed to be in a mood.

So Lu Weiwei quickly asked: "So, boss lady, do you think your best friend is still deliberately being angry?"

"Isn't that right?" The noodle shop owner's wife crossed her fingers and said with a smile:
"She does this every time. Maybe this time the quarrel between the two of them is more fierce, so I want to scare her husband and let her husband remember it, so that her husband will not dare to yell at her again in the future. Called."

After a pause, the noodle shop proprietress continued her analysis: "In fact, maybe she just wants to take control of her family? It feels like her husband has destroyed the authority of her family, so she is losing her temper."

"No." It feels like it's been a long time, but in the eyes of the noodle shop proprietress, the disappearance of my best friend is a farce?Officer Wang also quickly reminded:

"I said boss lady, you may have made a mistake, right? Your best friend is missing, and the surveillance can't capture her whereabouts."

"Moreover, her mobile phone has not been turned on for a week. All signs indicate that she is at risk of disappearing."

"Ah? Is that so?" Seeing Officer Wang's seriousness, the noodle shop owner's wife was startled, but she quickly came to her senses and explained:
"Comrade police, I really don't know the whereabouts of my best friend, but I personally feel that she may also be in a mood this time, maybe it takes a longer time, and she wants her husband to worry about her..."

"I don't think so." Before the noodle shop owner finished speaking, Gu Chen interrupted directly:

"In my opinion, the conflict between the two this time does not seem to be very serious."

"Moreover, we learned from your best friend's husband that the conflict this time was because his husband was greedy for cheaper ingredients, which led to him confusingly purchasing a batch of low-quality ingredients from mobile vegetable vendors."

After a pause, Gu Chen added: "But this is not a big problem. There is no need to get so emotional."

"Yes...really?" It didn't feel like Gu Chen was joking. The noodle shop proprietress hesitated again and again and said with self-doubt:

"Is this really an accident?"

"Proprietress." Yuan Shasha seemed not to be in the mood yet when meeting the proprietress of the restaurant, so she reminded her again:

"Have you ever felt that something is not quite right with your best friend lately?"

"Something's not right?" Listening to Yuan Shasha's words, the landlady narrowed her eyes and said thoughtfully:
"She usually only contacts me when she goes shopping, and then contacts me when she has a quarrel with her husband. Usually everyone is busy with their own affairs."

Looking around, the noodle shop proprietress added, "As you know, both of our families are in business. Our family owns a noodle restaurant, and their family owns a pancake stall."

"We are usually so busy that we have very little free time and no time to communicate at all. We don't even like each other in our circle of friends because we are so busy."

"She suddenly disappeared this time, which made everyone confused. At first, her husband called me, and I thought it was another joke."

"But you want to say something is wrong? I really don't see it, at least not now."

"Then let's put it this way." The hostess of the meeting place didn't seem to understand what he meant, so Gu Chen changed his way of saying it and continued:

"Has your best friend made any new friends during this time? Or is she familiar with anyone other than you and her husband?"

"This..." After hearing what Gu Chen said, the noodle shop owner suddenly felt that the atmosphere seemed not quite right.

Lu Weiwei saw all this, so she quickly asked: "Is that right?"

"Uh..." After hesitating, the noodle shop owner shook her head: "I... I don't know."

"If you know, just tell me. This is very important for us to find your best friend. She may be alive or dead now." Officer Wang's words instantly made the situation very serious.

The noodle shop owner's wife was stunned: "Is it that serious?"

"We are now investigating the whereabouts of your best friend in all aspects, what do you think?" It felt like this woman thought everyone was joking with her, and Lu Weiwei was also a little speechless.

It seems that from the very beginning, the noodle shop proprietress did not understand what everyone meant.

Yuan Shasha also continued to remind: "Look, so many of us are investigating the whereabouts of your best friend."

"Not only that, our other colleagues are also investigating, because judging from various signs, your bestie is likely to have been kidnapped, and so far, her life or death is unknown."

With a sigh, Yuan Shasha said helplessly: "So, you have to provide us with important clues, otherwise, your best friend's life may be threatened, you know?"

"I know." After listening to everyone's explanations, the noodle shop owner nodded silently. Then she recovered from her self-meditation and began to think carefully.

Gu Chen quickly asked again:

"Has she been close to anyone recently?"

"I don't know." The noodle shop owner shook her head.

"But you are her best friend." Lu Weiwei reminded her.

"Wait a minute." As soon as Lu Weiwei finished speaking, what did the noodle shop owner suddenly think of?Suddenly he raised his head and looked at everyone.

"What's wrong?" Officer Wang looked confused.

But the noodle shop proprietress said hesitantly: "Listening to what you said, it sounds like the problem is quite serious, right?"

"Originally, I didn't take it seriously, but now I feel like there are some metaphors in what my best friend said to me before."

"Metaphor?" After hearing what the noodle shop proprietress said, the three people including Lu Weiwei, Officer Wang and Yuan Shasha suddenly said in unison.

Officer Wang also quickly asked: "What is this metaphor you are talking about?"

"That's it... that's it..." Looking up in the direction of Gu Chen, the noodle shop owner's wife also thought about it and said:
"On a certain day before, I remember what my best friend said to me when she came to my house as a guest."

"Then what did she tell you?" Yuan Shasha was also impatient at the moment.

The noodle shop proprietress continued to think about it: "She said that if she divorced her husband, what would I think?"

"Divorce?" Lu Weiwei crossed her arms, a little puzzled: "It's so good, why do I tell you this issue?"

"Yes, I also think she has a brain cramp? Why are you asking me this question so politely?"

"Then how did you answer?" As soon as the noodle shop owner's wife finished speaking, Gu Chen quickly asked.

The landlady scratched the back of her head with her right hand and tried to remember: "I can't remember it clearly. It's just my impression. I really wanted to ask her, why did she think so?"

"But she didn't say anything, she just kept asking me, how do I feel?"

"I said, if two people can't live together, then let's divorce. But after all, they have children. The children are in their hometown and are taken care of by the old man."

"What will happen to the children if we get divorced? That's what I asked her."

"Then what did she say?" It felt like the investigation seemed to reveal some secrets, so Lu Weiwei also hurriedly asked.

The noodle shop owner tried to think back: "Anyway, I really didn't think much about it at the time. I just thought she was a joke and just communicated with her."

"She said that the child can belong to her husband. She wants to be free. She doesn't want to be stuck at the pancake stall every day, and she doesn't want to live a repetitive life every day."

"Wait a minute." As soon as the noodle shop owner's wife finished speaking, Gu Chen quickly asked:
"You mean, your best friend is getting tired of this kind of life?"

"Yeah." Facing Gu Chen's question, the noodle shop owner nodded silently: "A little bit."

"Isn't this business quite profitable? Moreover, I have roughly estimated that if they operate according to their current business, the money they would earn would be much higher than that of ordinary company executives."

"Especially because they have their own technology, and they prepare the ingredients and sauces themselves. With this core technology, the business will naturally be good."

"But since you can make a lot of money, why do you suddenly want to end this life?"

"Comrade police." After hearing what Gu Chen said, the noodle shop owner also smiled bitterly and quickly explained:

"You have to know that those of us in business are making hard-earned money."

Pointing to herself, the noodle shop proprietress said with a smile: "Just like me, I open a noodle shop. If I sell a bowl of noodles or a bowl of noodles, I can earn a bowl of noodles and a bowl of noodles." "If you want to make a lot of money, It’s all based on quantity. I’m so busy every day that I feel like I’m falling apart.”

"Although it's okay to make money, this kind of life goes on and on. To be honest, people with poor health simply can't bear it."

After a pause, the noodle shop proprietress also thought about it and said, "I guess my best friend is tired of this kind of life."

"If she had not started her own business a few years ago, maybe she would not have had so many ideas at that time because she had no money in her pocket."

"But it's different now. Through the business over the past few years, she has some money in her pocket."

"But once people have money, they have higher requirements for material life and have more ideas. Is that the truth?"

"Yeah." After listening to the noodle shop owner's explanation, Gu Chen nodded silently and agreed:
"Listening to what you said, it seems like your best friend still has desires hidden in her heart?"

"The desire must be there." The noodle shop owner nodded silently.

"What specific desires are they?" Lu Weiwei also wanted to know.

The noodle shop proprietress scratched her cheek and said thoughtfully, "For example, I want to buy some very expensive clothes."

"Be more specific." It felt like the noodle shop proprietress was still thinking, and Officer Wang also reminded her.

"Okay." The noodle shop owner nodded silently and continued:

"It's the kind of high-end designer clothing store that opens around upscale neighborhoods. Every time we pass by there, we want to go in."

"But the clothes there are too expensive. If you want to talk about people with petty bourgeoisie, they might go in and buy them."

"It can also be said that the target customers of those high-end designer clothing stores are them."

"And we usually have to be busy in restaurants and stalls, so we just wear work clothes and an apron."

"Wearing those high-end clothes just doesn't feel in line with our work status."

"Well, what next?" After listening to the noodle shop owner's statement, Gu Chen continued to ask.

The noodle shop proprietress approached Gu Chen and continued: "I didn't think about it. After all, I open a noodle shop and the rent is quite expensive, although I can still make a decent profit."

"But for my best friend's small rent, it is simply incomparable. Their family makes much more money than ours."

"So, one time, I went shopping with her, and while shopping, we came to a high-end designer clothing store."

"She said to go in and have a look, so I accompanied her in. Then she started to pick out clothes and went to the changing room to try them on. I didn't dare to go. When I saw the tag, an ordinary piece of clothes cost more than 1000 yuan. I felt like this It’s not something I can afford.”

"You know, for 1000 yuan, how many servings of noodles and rice noodles do I have to sell to earn these?"

While sighing with emotion, the noodle shop proprietress also raised her head and glanced at Gu Chen, and then said:
"Of course, maybe I am too inferior. Look at me."

As she spoke, the noodle shop proprietress spread her hands, and then smiled self-deprecatingly:

"Workers like us are so busy every day that our bodies are seriously out of shape. I am fat and my body is also out of shape."

"Even if I wear a high-end dress, it can't bring out my elegant temperament. Therefore, I still know that those clothes are not suitable for me."

After a pause, the noodle shop proprietress continued: "But, for my best friend, not to mention, as soon as I change into these high-end clothes, my temperament comes out immediately."

"Because she is taller, many old people in our village said that her figure is very suitable for modeling."

"It's a pity that at that time, the family's financial resources were limited, and she was not good at studying, so she went out to work early. Any modeling dream felt too far away."

Listening to the explanation from the noodle shop proprietress, Gu Chen seemed to understand something. It seemed that the pancake proprietress had always had a dream of being a model.

In other words, the pancake proprietress has always felt that her temperament is not inferior to those of the petty bourgeoisie or the rich.

It was only because of the limitations of her career that she lived an ordinary life.

But over the years, with the help of her husband's secret sauce, the couple's pancake business has been booming, and they have quickly made a small fortune.

But once a person has money, it is easy to develop desires buried in his heart.

Obviously, the desire of the pancake proprietress seems to be constantly being aroused.

Gu Chen looked at the noodle shop owner in front of him, stretched out his hand and said, "Keep talking."

"Okay." Nodding silently, the noodle shop proprietress continued to think about it and said:
"I remember that day, my best friend secretly bought a dress worth more than 1000 yuan and told me not to tell anyone else, especially her husband. She told me not to tell anyone."

"Once her husband asked about the price, he said around two hundred yuan. Anyway, he just let me talk about it."

"Because her husband is a frugal person. To be precise, he is a relatively frugal person."

"In the past few years, their family's conditions have slowly begun to improve. So, my best friend said this, and I can understand it. After all, who doesn't like good-looking clothes?"

"I was asked not to tell her husband because I was afraid that her husband would object. However, there are more and more cases like this. I feel that her husband will know about her crazy purchase of luxury goods sooner or later."

"Then did her husband know in the end? Or didn't he know?" After hearing what the noodle shop proprietress said, Officer Wang also asked curiously.

The noodle shop proprietress laughed and shook her head helplessly: "I don't know whether you know it or not. I feel like you should know it. After all, those clothes are not cheap at first glance."

"Anyway, if there is anything unusual about my best friend? In addition to buying high-end clothes, maybe she also started to dress herself up."

"Does this count?" Yuan Shasha also expressed curiosity after hearing what the noodle shop proprietress said.

But the noodle shop proprietress quickly explained: "Comrade policewoman, maybe you don't know, but we caterers rarely put on elaborate makeup on ourselves."

Pointing to herself, the noodle shop proprietress also explained: "Take me for example, I don't like makeup, I wear bare face every day."

"Just use facial cleanser to deal with it when you go out. It's been like this for so many years, and my best friend is the same."

"But later I discovered that not only did she frequently buy high-end clothes, but she also began to wear exquisite makeup."

After a pause, perhaps because she was afraid that Gu Chen's team would misunderstand, the noodle shop owner quickly explained:
"I don't mean anything else. Maybe I just feel that my best friend has changed a bit."

"When did it start?" Listening to the noodle shop owner's explanation, Gu Chen didn't find it strange.

After all, when a person begins to deliberately change his or her life, it means that the person must have encountered something that led him to want to change the status quo.

The unexpected disappearance of the pancake proprietress made Gu Chen alert. Did something happen to the pancake proprietress?

Especially when Gu Chen analyzed the surveillance footage with He Junchao in the office last night, it could be seen that the pancake proprietress was actually very close to Zou Yaohua, the fish delivery person.

Moreover, the two had met in private. Gu Chen had felt before that the two might have had a private tryst.

But now combined with these words from the noodle shop proprietress, Gu Chen felt more and more that the pancake proprietress might really be dating Zou Yaohua.

The relationship between the two seems to have become so unclear.

The noodle shop owner thought for a few seconds and said slowly: "The specific time, maybe just these few months? It may have started two months ago."

"Because you also asked me to tell you something suspicious about my best friend. After thinking about it, I feel that this is the only thing that is suspicious."

"Because it's different from usual, so this should be it."

"Okay." Gu Chen recorded these things and continued to ask:
"After that, did your best friend ever tell you that she dressed like this because she wanted to meet someone?"

"Huh?" Seeing Gu Chen ask this question, the noodle shop owner looked a little embarrassed.

But Gu Chen said indifferently: "Don't worry about this, just tell the truth. Does your best friend have other men outside?"

"Is this... can I say this?" I felt that Gu Chen's question was really hard to resist.

Lu Weiwei on the side also let out a "tsk" and quickly reminded:
"The current situation is that your best friend's whereabouts are unknown. She may have been kidnapped, and her life may be in danger."

"Especially in terms of time, because her husband thought it was the same old routine of running away from home, and thought his lover was hiding in your house again, so there was no contact."

"But now a week has passed, and your best friend's husband has found that he can't be contacted at all, and you haven't seen him either."

"This means that your best friend has actually been out of contact for a week. What happened during this week? No one knows."

"But if you don't find your best friend for one day, she may be in danger for one more day."

With a faint sigh, Lu Weiwei also said righteously:

"I say that, do you understand?"

"But... it's understandable." I felt a little confused by the question, and I also knew that the reason why the police asked this was because they wanted to find my best friend as soon as possible.

After thinking over and over again, the noodle shop proprietress also analyzed and said:

"I don't know if she has anyone else outside, but my intuition tells me that maybe there is."

"After all, we both grew up in the same village. I know her character well."

"She is the kind of person who has a very high vision. Although she didn't read much at first, she always felt that she would definitely marry well in the future, and at least she would be from a wealthy family."

"Moreover, especially in those years, during the period before the Chinese New Year, there was an endless stream of people coming to her house to talk to her about matchmaking."

"In this way, her vision has been improved invisibly, because she has plenty of choices, so she is not in a hurry."

"But I don't know what happened later? So I found her husband, but her husband was just an ordinary person who worked hard. They met while working in a factory."

"Other than that, I don't know anything about other things about her and her husband, and she didn't say much."

"It just told me that the two of them were colleagues, and after getting along for a long time, they got together."

After a pause, the noodle shop proprietress also said jokingly: "I was joking at that time and asked her, didn't you say you wanted to marry the big boss?"

"Then what did she say?" Gu Chen also turned his pen with his right hand and asked curiously.

"What did she say?" The noodle shop owner's wife snorted and shook her head helplessly:

"She didn't say much. Anyway, she just accepted her fate. She felt that she was old enough to find a decent person to marry."

"They have been doing this for so many years. Later, through dealing with the couple, I discovered that the reason why my best friend chose her current husband is because his husband has no temper."

"In other words, do you do everything her way?" Officer Wang asked.

"Absolutely." The noodle shop owner nodded silently and said truthfully:
"Sometimes, I feel that her husband is a bit useless, because my best friend is famous for her bad temper."

"Not many people can get used to her temper. Maybe it's because of her husband's tolerance that she is willing to marry him."

"But later, when her husband occasionally spoke forcefully to her, she felt aggrieved and felt that her husband had changed."

"That's why the farce of running away from home happened later. In essence, it was probably because he wanted to regain the right to speak at home."

"Oh my God!" After hearing what the noodle shop proprietress said, Yuan Shasha said a little uneasily:
"It is most important for a family to live in harmony. If she did this, her husband must have suffered a lot from being a coward, right?"

"Isn't it?" After hearing what Yuan Shasha said, the noodle shop owner quickly agreed:
"The arrogance her husband has received over the years could probably fill a hot air balloon."

"Every time I see her husband come to my house with a look of apology and politely take her home, I feel sad for her husband."

"If her husband didn't love her very much, who could bear this? So I always thought that this might be the shining point of her husband."

"Ouch." After hearing this explanation from the noodle shop proprietress, Lu Weiwei also held her head and said speechlessly:

"I really didn't expect that there are so many stories about the two couples in this pancake shop? It feels like there are many problems between these two people."

"If such conflicts continue to accumulate, I feel that her husband will completely explode."

"Wait a minute." Hearing what Lu Weiwei said, Gu Chen seemed to have thought of something?He quickly asked again:

"Senior Sister Lu, what did you just say?"

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