I am a super cop

Chapter 2401: Old Friends in Jianghu [Two in One Chapter]

After hearing the pancake boss's statement, Gu Chen felt that the clue was finally right.

For Zou Yaohua, appearing near the pancake owner's house was not considered a probability, but more like a deliberate decision.

This can also objectively explain the subtle relationship between Zou Yaohua and the pancake boss.

Everyone looked at each other, feeling that the situation was a bit complicated.

Seeing that Gu Chen and others were silent, the pancake owner quickly asked: "What's wrong, Gu Bureau? Do you think this person has something to do with my wife's disappearance?"

"Maybe, we are investigating." Gu Chen didn't say it directly.

But the pancake boss heard the problem and hurriedly asked: "Gu Ju, can you tell me the truth? I don't want to think about anything right now. I just want to know the whereabouts of my wife."

Gu Chen glanced at Lu Weiwei beside him. Lu Weiwei immediately understood what Gu Chen meant, so she said bluntly:

"Based on our investigation, we did find that your lover has a close relationship with this man who delivers aquatic products."

"Moreover, our investigation found that they had been together in private on several occasions."

"Bah!" Hearing Lu Weiwei say this, the teacup that the pancake owner was holding suddenly fell to the ground.

Seeing this, Officer Wang kindly asked: "Aren't they friends?"

The pancake boss shook his head and said expressionlessly: "I don't know."

"I have never had any impression of this man before, and I have never known his relationship with my wife."

Having said this, everyone can clearly feel the anger hidden deep in the man's heart.

However, at this moment, Gu Chen hesitated.

Due to what the pancake boss said before, Gu Chen knew that the couple actually spent most of their time together.

The pancake proprietress also spends a large part of her time with her best friends.

So, how did you get to know Zou Yaohua, the fish delivery guy?Gu Chen was also puzzled.

The key is that the two have no intersection.

Moreover, according to what the middle-aged woman in Zhushan Community said, Zou Yaohua lived across from her.

But even so, from the middle-aged woman's point of view, Zou Yaohua was busy every day, busy delivering aquatic products.

This can also objectively show that Zou Yaohua and the pancake proprietress are actually busy with their own work most of the time.

To say that the two of them got together after only meeting a few times made it difficult for Gu Chen to doubt the authenticity of their relationship.

Logically speaking, if the two had a private tryst, most people might think that both of them were suspected of cheating.

But in Gu Chen's opinion, the two were probably discussing something, because according to surveillance, although the two had secret trysts every time, they didn't do anything extraordinary.

Judging from the previous situations of the pancake proprietress and the place where she disappeared, Gu Chen felt that the pancake proprietress might have an important situation and needed to temporarily avoid her husband.

So she arranged a time and place with Zou Yaohua, and took advantage of the dispute with her husband to "run away from home."

In other words, will "running away from home" become reasonable?
Various data streams kept surging in Gu Chen's mind, while Lu Weiwei, Officer Wang and Yuan Shasha continued to interrogate the pancake boss...

Gu Chen got up and came to the bedside. He looked at the passers-by in the community outside and couldn't help but murmur in his heart.

"What's going on? If there is no cheating between the pancake proprietress and Zou Yaohua, what does the recent abnormal behavior of the pancake proprietress mean?"

"Also, Zou Yaohua is originally an ordinary person and has nothing to do with the pancake proprietress. Why do the two of them get together so often?"

"Besides, why did the pancake proprietress go behind her husband's back to meet Zou Yaohua?"

"Or is it that Zou Yaohua has known the pancake proprietress a long time ago?"

After a pause, Gu Chen continued to think: "But the two of them are not from the same place. Could it be that they met before the pancake proprietress met her husband?"

"According to the previous wife who opened a noodle shop, her best friend had many suitors before, and she also worked in many places before meeting her husband."

Thinking of this, Gu Chen couldn't help but snap his fingers: "Yes, that should be the case. Zou Yaohua and the pancake proprietress have known each other for a long time, at least they are not strangers."

"Maybe it's first love, or what? But if the pancake proprietress was really picked up by Zou Yaohua, then why did she send a pair of earrings anonymously?"

"You know, Zou Yaohua is now closely monitored by Ding Liang and Huang Zunlong."

"It can be said that Zou Yaohua's every move now is under the control of the police."

"But Ding Liang and Huang Zunlong did not send any information about Zou Yaohua's anonymous letter. This shows that the letter was not sent by Zou Yaohua at all."

Thinking of this, Gu Chen overturned Zou Yaohua's idea of ​​kidnapping the pancake proprietress.

"If Zou Yaohua didn't do it, who could it be? Or, the pancake boss has long been aware of his lover's abnormality."

"And this pair of earrings was directed and performed by Pancake Boss?"

Thinking of this, Gu Chen turned to look at the pancake owner on the sofa.

At this moment, the pancake boss was still communicating with Lu Weiwei, Officer Wang and Yuan Shasha.

Gu Chen turned around and looked out the window, muttering in his heart:
"If it is really the Pancake Boss who directed and acted, what is his purpose? Tell us the police that his lover was kidnapped?"

"But if this clue was fabricated by him out of thin air, then no matter how we investigate, the direction will be wrong."

"If this pair of earrings is really Pancake Boss's own 'masterpiece,' then he must know the fact that his lover was kidnapped and controlled."

"So, by seeking assistance from the police, doesn't it mean that he is causing trouble for himself? Or is he trying to use the police as a guise to eliminate suspicion for himself?"

Thinking of this, Gu Chen crossed his hands and cupped his chin to think: "Is there another explanation?"

"If the pancake boss knows some of his lover's special circumstances, he will also silently cooperate with his lover and accompany her to perform a runaway show."

"But in fact, the pancake boss and the guy who kidnapped his lover have known each other for a long time and conspired together. Is this possible?"

"If so, what was the motive for the crime? Or have these two couples been hiding some secrets?"

After all kinds of brainstorming in Gu Chen's mind, Gu Chen felt more and more that the couple making pancakes seemed to be hiding something.

After Gu Chen's previous investigations into various situations, he increasingly felt that everyone here and the clues provided by everyone were more or less suspected of lying.

Including the pancake boss, the best friend of the pancake proprietress, and Zou Yaowen who delivered aquatic products, it seems that everyone concealed the truth in their oral accounts.

Although it is difficult for Gu Chen to judge now, Zou Yaohua's rhetoric is indeed full of loopholes.

After all, according to surveillance and investigation, Zou Yaohua and the pancake proprietress met many times in private, but he said that he did not know the proprietress. This must be a lie.

From this point of view alone, Zou Yaohua is the most suspicious person.

Moreover, according to Jianbing Boss’s dictation, Zou Yaohua seems to have appeared near Jianbing Boss’s house.

Gu Chen felt that the most urgent task was to call in Zou Yaohua and continue questioning him, at least to find out what was Zou Yaohua's motive for lying?
Thinking of this, Gu Chen glanced in the direction of Lu Weiwei.

Lu Weiwei also shook her head helplessly at Gu Chen.

Seeing that the investigation did not yield much results, Gu Chen led everyone to search the pancake owner's house, but did not find anything unusual.

Back in the living room, Gu Chen also reminded: "As for your lover's situation, we will continue to follow up. Please also inform us as soon as you have the latest news."

After a pause, Gu Chen continued to remind: "Oh, by the way, be more vigilant these days. If you find anything unusual at the door, be sure to pay more attention."

"Because if the other party has a strong purpose in sending this pair of earrings, then if the other party does not make a request, there will definitely be a next time."

"I understand." After hearing what Gu Chen said, the pancake owner nodded silently and echoed:
"I will be more careful and will notify you as soon as possible if something happens."

"Yes, very good." After hearing what the pancake boss said, Gu Chen breathed a sigh of relief, and then said: "Then let's go back first. If anything happens, remember to call us."

"it is good."

……

After a while of communication between the two parties, Gu Chen took everyone back to the car.

Later, Gu Chen contacted Ding Liang and Huang Zunlong, temporarily controlled Zou Yaohua, and brought Zou Yaohua to the community where he rented, which is Zhushan Community.

Gu Chen was going to meet Ding Liang there to check on Zou Yaohua's home and interrogate Zou Yaohua again.

……

……

At 11:20 a.m., Zou Yaohua was brought to his doorstep by Ding Liang and Huang Zunlong.

Gu Chen's team has been waiting here for a long time.

"Gu Chen, people have been brought to you." After Huang Zunlong finished speaking, he pushed Zou Yaohua to Gu Chen.

Seeing Gu Chen's scene, Zou Yaohua also grinned and couldn't help but said: "Officer Gu, I... we meet again."

"I wonder what's going on if you come to me this time?"

"That's the matter of the pancake proprietress." Gu Chen also told the truth.

Upon hearing what Gu Chen said, Zou Yaohua also smiled bitterly and said flatteringly:
"Officer Gu, haven't I already explained the matter about the pancake proprietress before? Didn't I explain it clearly enough?"

Gu Chen did not answer immediately, but looked at the closed door and asked, "Don't you want to invite us in for a cup of tea?"

"Oh." Zou Yaohua reacted and immediately took out the key and opened the door.

The moment the door opened, a fishy smell hit her nostrils, and Lu Weiwei even covered her nose.

Leading Gu Chen's team into the living room, Zou Yaohua also smiled and said: "The house is quite messy. I usually live alone, so I don't do much to clean it up."

While Zou Yaohua was talking to Gu Chen and others, Gu Chen also led his team members to casually check the room conditions.

When I opened the bathroom door, I found that there were some plastic boxes inside the bathroom.

In the plastic box, there are some aquatic fish.

The faucet is connected to the water pipe, and water is constantly dripping into the water tank.

Gu Chen glanced at it briefly before arriving at the door of the bedroom.

At this time, Lu Weiwei had already completed the inspection immediately, came to Gu Chen, and shook her head.

Gu Chen knew that Lu Weiwei didn't notice anything unusual, and then returned to the living room.

At this moment, Zou Yaohua also politely poured tea for everyone.

"Officer Gu, drink tea." Zou Yaohua handed the paper cup with tea in front of Gu Chen.

After Gu Chen took it, he thanked him, put the paper cup on the foot of the coffee table, and then asked Zou Yaohua:
"Zou Yaohua, tell me the truth. Your car broke down on the road that day. Are you lying? Did you go to pick up the pancake proprietress?"

Due to the previous interrogation of Zou Yaohua, Gu Chen's team had very limited access to clues, so Gu Chen did not expose it directly.

But it's different now. Gu Chen already has a lot of evidence about Zou Yaohua.

So this interview is more like an attitude test.

Zou Yaohua's eyes were stunned, and he said with a wry smile: "Officer Gu, you said this as if I was trying to lie to you?"

"Isn't it?" Officer Wang looked back and took the initiative to walk towards Zou Yaohua. He poked Zou Yaohua's chest with his right index finger and asked:

"Could it be that you, Zou Yaohua, didn't deceive us?"

"Haha." Feeling the pressure from Officer Wang, Zou Yaohua laughed twice and continued:

"I don't understand what you mean?"

"Don't understand?" Hearing what Zou Yaohua said, Officer Wang raised his eyebrows and said with a smile:

"Zou Yaohua, your acting is quite similar. If we didn't know your specific situation, would we come to visit you?"

"Uh……"

Facing Officer Wang's questioning, Zou Yaohua frowned in embarrassment and looked at Gu Chen and the others.

At this time, Gu Chen was standing on the balcony, listening to the situation reports from Ding Liang and Huang Zunlong.

After learning that Zou Yaohua had been under 24-hour surveillance and had not sent any relevant envelopes or letters, Gu Chen felt relieved and asked Ding Liang and Huang Zunlong to return to their respective jobs first.

Everything here is taken over by Gu Chen.

Watching Ding Liang and Huang Zunlong leave the door, Gu Chen walked up to Zou Yaohua and said straight to the point:

"What's your relationship with this pancake proprietress? You've known each other for a long time, right?" "Haha." After hearing what Gu Chen said, Zou Yaohua continued to pretend to be dumbfounded: "Officer Gu, I don't even know what to say. ?”

"You don't have to act in front of me." Gu Chen shook his head and said truthfully:
"We know that you and the pancake proprietress have known each other for a long time. Moreover, you have met together in private, in the park and in the restaurant."

"I won't say more about this. You know it yourself. I just want to know, why did you want to deceive us?"

"I……"

Hearing what Gu Chen said, Zou Yaohua immediately understood that the police seemed to understand everything.

I came here this time to ask questions.

Seeing Zou Yaohua hesitant, Yuan Shasha also reminded: "I said Zou Yaohua, you should say it yourself. We all know the situation between you and the pancake proprietress, don't think we are blind."

"Zou Yaohua." As soon as Yuan Shasha finished speaking, Officer Wang also reminded:
"We are giving you a chance. Now the whereabouts of the pancake proprietress are unknown. She may have been kidnapped."

"If this matter has anything to do with you, then we hope you can truthfully explain the cause of the matter. But if this matter has nothing to do with you, if you hide it like this, you are taking the responsibility on yourself."

"It's unjust." After listening to everyone's urging, Zou Yaohua seemed to be really scared.

The reason is also very simple. The police have investigated the relationship between him and the pancake proprietress.

If you still choose to deny it at this time, the consequences will be quite serious.

After a period of internal tangles, Zou Yaohua also sighed, and then said helplessly:

"That's all, since you want to know, then I'll tell you."

"Were you kidnapped the pancake proprietress?" Gu Chen asked quickly as soon as Zou Yaohua finished speaking.

But Zou Yaohua shook his head: "No, I have never kidnapped her, and I really don't know her specific whereabouts."

"No way?" Lu Weiwei frowned slightly and asked curiously:
"That day, the pancake boss lady came out of her home and passed by the place where your car broke down. Didn't she make an appointment with you in advance?"

"Yes." This time Zou Yaohua did not deny it, but said truthfully:
"She made the appointment with me."

Seeing this, everyone in the living room suddenly became alert.

Lu Weiwei also quickly asked: "Keep talking."

"Okay." Zou Yaohua calmed down briefly and said in retrospect:
"That day, the pancake proprietress indeed told me to come to the designated place at the designated time and then pick her up and leave."

"But after I picked her up, she asked me to put him down again on the way."

"Where is it?" Gu Chen quickly asked.

"It's just out of the city, on the way to the aquatic product base, at the river crossing on the outskirts of the city."

"I remember that when we arrived at the bridge, she suddenly asked me to stop the car. Then, after she got off the car, she told me to leave her alone."

"What do you mean?" Officer Wang didn't understand and continued to ask.

And Zou Yaohua also said truthfully: "I don't know. She asked me to pick her up, so I will pick her up. As for what she is going to do? She didn't tell me, she said she was going to do something."

"Because at that time I was also going to the aquatic product base to buy goods, and the time was very tight. I only promised her to take her for a ride. I didn't know anything else."

"You didn't ask clearly?" Lu Weiwei still didn't believe it.

But Zou Yaohua shook his head like a rattle and denied it:
"Of course I didn't ask. Anyway, she has her own affairs and I have mine."

Listening to Zou Yaohua's serious story, Gu Chen wrote it down and continued to question Zou Yaohua:
"Then what's the relationship between you and this pancake proprietress?"

"It's... that's my former colleague." Feeling that there was no point in hiding it any longer, Zou Yaohua simply explained:
"We met a long time ago. At that time, everyone was around 20 years old."

"We all worked in a factory outside Pengcheng Pass. It was at that time that we gradually became familiar with each other."

"Then what?" Seeing that Zou Yaohua was hesitant in speaking, Lu Weiwei continued to ask.

Zou Yaohua also sighed and said helplessly: "At that time, she was my girlfriend, but we broke up after half a year because our personalities were not suitable."

"Later, the factory closed down, and we moved to other companies. Later, I went to Beijing, and she seemed to have gone to Hangzhou."

"So that's it?" Listening to Zou Yaohua's story, Gu Chen nodded silently, and then asked again:

"Then why did you appear in Jiangnan City later?"

"Maybe it's fate?" Facing Gu Chen's question, Zou Yaohua also smiled bitterly and shook his head helplessly.

But Lu Weiwei asked him out of curiosity: "What do you mean by that? Could it be that you don't know that each other is in Jiangnan City?"

"Yeah." Zou Yaohua nodded silently and smiled self-deprecatingly:
"She and I have not been in contact for many years, and we both know that we have already started a family."

"I just didn't expect that one time when I was returning from a delivery trip, I passed by the mall and saw a food festival being held in the square."

"So, I was thinking, why don't I buy some delicious food and go back? So I parked the car and went to the food festival."

After a pause, Zou Yaohua also sighed and said: "But that time, I found many people queuing up in front of a pancake stall. I felt that this business was very good, so I wanted to go and have a look."

"But it doesn't matter at first glance. I immediately recognized the lady boss making pancakes. It was her."

"Then did she recognize you?" Yuan Shasha asked quickly.

Zou Yaohua nodded silently: "I waited in line for a long time to wait for me. When she looked up and looked at me, we were both very embarrassed."

"But because her husband is around, we both are very restrained."

"What happened next?" Officer Wang felt that he wanted to hear this gossip.

"Later?" Zou Yaohua sighed and said helplessly:

"Later, I would go to her pancake stall to take care of the business when I had time. If her husband was there, I would buy the pancakes and leave. But one time, her husband was not there, so I added her contact information."

"Because, since we said goodbye to Pengcheng, we have all changed our contact information, and we have not been in contact for many years."

"I just didn't expect that we would meet again in Jiangnan City. Maybe I want to talk to her about old times, but I don't know where to start."

Looking up at Gu Chen and the others, Zou Yaohua also said truthfully: "You said that the investigation led to us meeting in private, okay, I admit it."

"After all, we have known each other for many years. It is unrealistic to say that we will never keep in touch with each other since we are working in the same city."

"So, later on, the two of us slowly got together in our free time."

Having said this, fearing that Gu Chen and others might misunderstand, Zou Yaohua quickly clarified for himself:
"First of all, let me make it clear that she and I really have nothing to do with each other? We all have our own families, and we are all grown up."

"I just feel like I haven't seen each other for so many years. Sometimes, I just want to come out and chat."

"At that time, she seemed to have a lot of worries that she wanted to vent, so she would tell me about these situations."

With a faint sigh, Zou Yaohua said helplessly: "We just recall the past together, that's all."

"Okay." Seeing Zou Yaohua's explanation so simply, Officer Wang naturally didn't believe that the two were just chatting.

After all, during this period of time, the pancake proprietress began to pay attention to her appearance, indicating that she was going to meet Zou Yaohua.

After all, the two had been a couple before, so the pancake proprietress might not want to show her ordinary side in front of Zou Yaohua. Maybe she just wanted to leave a good impression on herself when she met Zou Yaohua.

So Officer Wang asked again: "Did you contact the pancake proprietress after she got off the bus that day?"

"No." Zou Yaohua shook his head and said truthfully: "Because we are busy working every day, we don't often contact each other."

Holding out 4 fingers, Zou Yaohua continued: "We have only met alone 4 times in total."

After hearing Zou Yaohua's story, Gu Chen probably knew that he was not lying.

Because during He Junchao's surveillance investigation, it was found that Zou Yaohua and the pancake proprietress had only met four times.

So Gu Chen asked Zou Yaohua again: "That is to say, the last time the pancake proprietress saw you, she got into your two gray vans, and then she got out of the car at the ferry bridge, and you didn't contact her again after that. ?”

"Yes." Zou Yaohua nodded fiercely and echoed:
"Because I was in a hurry to go to the aquatic product base to collect goods, and then she notified me at short notice and asked me to wait for her at that place, saying that I was giving her a ride."

"I thought she was going to do some errands, so I agreed. As you said later, that stretch of road could be completed in 7 minutes, but I walked for a full 40 minutes."

After saying this, Zou Yaohua also sighed, as if the last dictation also made him suffocate.

When Gu Chen heard this, he continued to ask: "Then why didn't you make it clear last time?"

"I...I don't want to cause trouble." Feeling that he was wronged, Zou Yaohua also sighed heavily, and then said:

"I know that the relationship between me and her must not be made public."

"After all, they have a pretty good relationship as a couple, and they have always been partners in business."

"What does it mean that I suddenly appeared? I just met her occasionally in the fields of Jiangnan City and wanted to catch up with her."

When he saw Gu Chen and others staring at him with strange eyes, Zou Yaohua also continued to explain:
"Really, we are really just catching up on old times. However, you said that she suddenly disappeared. This itself has nothing to do with me."

"If I had said at that time that she and I were once in a relationship, wouldn't this suspicion have made me solid?"

"Then if her husband finds out, it will definitely affect their relationship as husband and wife."

"Haha." Listening to Zou Yaohua's defense for herself, Lu Weiwei couldn't help but laugh twice and said angrily:
"Since you know that meeting in private like this will affect their relationship as husband and wife, why do you still do this?"

"If we were a couple before, then we should not meet each other easily now. If we want to meet, we should do it openly and make the relationship clear to her husband, right?"

"It's okay to be honest? But you go and sneak around."

Sighing softly, Lu Weiwei shook her head helplessly:
"Sometimes I really don't know what is going on in your heads?"

"Yes, yes, that's what the police comrade said." Faced with Lu Weiwei's question, Zou Yaohua also nodded silently and proactively admitted:
"I know what I did at that time was indeed inappropriate, but it was also to avoid trouble."

"Now, you say she is missing. I feel that the couple had another quarrel, and then she ran away from home to get some air."

"After all, she told me before that she would run away from home whenever she had a conflict with her husband. In the end, her husband would get used to her and take her home."

"She also joked that if I had followed her temper, maybe the two of us would have been together, and she also said that I had a bad temper."

After saying this, Zou Yaohua also sighed, feeling a little aggrieved.

Officer Wang heard this and continued: "So, when you saw her for the last time and dropped her off, you thought you were just running away from home for a short time to relax?"

"Yes, that's the truth." Zou Yaohua no longer hides anything at this moment?But tell it frankly.

The scene in the living room suddenly fell into a brief silence.

The atmosphere suddenly became awkward.

Yuan Shasha hesitated for a few seconds, and then asked: "Then what do you think is the most likely situation for the pancake proprietress?"

"After all, she will talk to you about everything between her and her husband, and she will talk to you about everything in her life."

"It feels like you are her tree hole now, but in this way, you should be the one who knows her best. So where is she going? Or, what kind of situation do you think she is other than running away from home?"

"Uh……"

Yuan Shasha's words stumped Zou Yaohua.

Zou Yaohua scratched his cheek, thinking hard, but then shook his head:

"This...I really don't know how to explain it?"

"Use your own understanding and analyze it." Officer Wang waved his hand and said as a reminder.

Zou Yaohua sighed and said helplessly: "Originally, we were all busy with our own work, but in our free time, we occasionally got together to communicate about life."

"But the last time I saw her was when I sent her to the ferry bridge on the outskirts of the city."

"On the way, I asked her if she was having trouble with her husband again?"

"She said yes, and then I persuaded her, talking about life, it is like this anyway, in short, I just want to enlighten her, but she told me not to worry about it, it is not my business."

"I thought at the time that I was really kind-hearted. I just wanted her to be more open-minded and not worry about the family's shortcomings. Instead, she was scolded."

With a faint sigh, Zou Yaohua continued to explain: "However, everyone is older now, and I don't have the bad temper I had before."

"What's more, it's her business to say whatever she likes, and I won't quarrel with her. What did I ask her along the way? She didn't even want to say it. She seemed to be angry. I don't know what it was exactly, and I don't want to know. .”

"That's it. When we arrived at the location, she asked me to park the car and I watched her leave. It was as simple as that. Later, you found me and said that I was a major suspect."

After laughing twice, Zou Yaohua shook his head: "You should all know everything that happened later."

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