I am a super cop

Chapter 2403 Word-of-mouth Pier [two in one chapter]

"Have you met her? Or a week ago?" Hearing that the middle-aged man changed his mind, Gu Chen felt that this guy was interesting.

Seems to know something?But he just deliberately betrayed himself.

The middle-aged man coughed twice and pretended to be mysterious: "What then? Why don't you take care of the business? It's not easy to run a small business."

"Ha!" The conversation between Gu Chen and the middle-aged man just now happened to be heard by Lu Weiwei who was standing beside him.

Lu Weiwei was walking over at this moment. When she heard that the middle-aged man was doing this, Lu Weiwei suddenly said angrily:

"I asked, do you know? Isn't this just a mystery?"

"Then do you want to buy something?" Seeing that Lu Weiwei didn't seem to be easy to mess with, the man immediately assumed another attitude.

Lu Weiwei's face darkened, and she continued: "Brother, if you really know where the person we are looking for is? Then tell us, of course we will take care of the business, as it should be."

"But now you ask us to buy your things, and then you tell us the news."

Shaking her head, Lu Weiwei crossed her arms and looked suspicious: "I really don't know this. Do you know? Or don't you know?"

"Haha." After hearing what Lu Weiwei said, the middle-aged man suddenly laughed dryly, and then directly started to fight with Lu Weiwei, saying angrily:

"What is there about this waterway that I don't know about? You have to know that I am doing business on this small dock. What does this mean?"

"Explanation..." Lu Weiwei looked around and saw that there was only one merchant here, so Lu Weiwei quickly said:
"It means you are the only one doing business here, so you have a monopoly?"

"Oh no." Feeling that Lu Weiwei's understanding ability was a bit strange, the middle-aged man also waved his hand and said angrily:
"It means that I'm not only doing business, I'm also doing intelligence business."

"What?" Upon hearing what the man said, Yuan Shasha, who had just walked over, was immediately shocked by the words and asked quickly:

"You...what are you talking about? Are you still in the intelligence business?"

"Oh, I mean auntie." The middle-aged man almost cried because of Lu Weiwei and Yuan Shasha, so he quickly explained:
"I mean, I do business at this dock. Although I am the only merchant, I do business with integrity, and I do not bully others."

"And, most importantly, anyone coming from the south or north will chat with me when they rest or shop."

"Through this back and forth, I have developed the ability to observe words and emotions."

"As long as there is any gossip here, I know it best. It's better to ask me than anyone else."

"In other words, you want to collect money from us, and then you tell us the news? Is that what you mean?" Officer Wang also saw people gathered here.

Out of curiosity, I came over to see what was going on.

But it doesn't matter. I feel that this businessman has the smell of a black shop.

The middle-aged man rolled his eyes and said, "Let me tell you, this is a small business. Apart from doing this small retail business every day, how much money can I make?"

"So, I am still in the intelligence business here. As long as I know anything about this waterway, I will definitely tell you."

"Are you obsessed with money?" Lu Weiwei had been unhappy with him for a long time and said righteously:

"Let me tell you, we are handling a case and looking for the kidnapped people. If you don't report the information, do you know the consequences?"

"What?" Upon hearing what Lu Weiwei said, the middle-aged man suddenly became anxious and argued with Lu Weiwei:
"Oh, I don't know, that's okay. I know, and I don't want to say it. Is it still a crime?"

"That's the truth. Either you tell me, or you just know and don't report it." Lu Weiwei didn't tolerate him.

Lu Weiwei does not encourage the behavior of middle-aged traders. It is obviously just a casual thing, but it is expected to be turned into underground information by this guy.

If he continues to get used to this, he might start doing some illegal things.

But the man didn't feel that it was the result of his own labor. Everything has a price.

And do you know it?It all depends on the price offered by the other party?

It was also the first time for Gu Chen to see such a strange thing, so before Lu Weiwei could continue arguing with him, he interrupted her speech in advance.

Gu Chen knew that if Lu Weiwei was allowed to argue like this, there would be no solution in the end.

"Boss." Gu Chen adjusted his tone and then said:

"What you said does make sense. Everything has value, and sometimes value can indeed be measured in money."

"But you have to know that this is a case, and it is the basic obligation of citizens to cooperate with the police in handling the case."

"If you tell us where the person we are looking for is? We will thank you and buy some of your things. That is natural."

"But, you blatantly asked us to buy things first and then tell us the news. The nature has changed."

After he finished speaking, Gu Chen found some snacks and drinks from the middle-aged vendor's cart and threw them directly to Lu Weiwei, Officer Wang and Yuan Shasha. Then he said to the middle-aged man:

"Despite this, I am still willing to take care of your business, but next time you trouble me, can you say it differently?"

"Haha." Seeing Gu Chen spending money at his stall, the middle-aged man's unforgiving face suddenly became relaxed.

He wasn't as tough as before, and he became easier to talk.

"Okay, since you support my business, I won't make things difficult for you."

After coughing twice, the middle-aged man slowly said:
"The woman in the photo on your mobile phone, I did see her on this channel a week ago."

"Can you be more specific?" Officer Wang turned on the law enforcement recorder and pointed it at the middle-aged man in front of him.

The middle-aged man also thought about it and said: "I remember, it was about a week ago, because this waterway was an ancient waterway before, and there were cargo ships traveling all the time."

"However, due to the development of road and railway transportation, there are very few people who use the waterway. Moreover, this waterway still has many unsafe factors and has not been maintained accordingly."

"So, it has been eliminated a long time ago, but now, with the comprehensive development of Jiangnan Iron and Steel Plant, it has begun to pay attention to waterway transportation."

"And it is said that last year alone, Jiangnan Iron and Steel Plant used water transportation and road transportation to save tens of millions in transportation costs."

"Save so much? Do you even know this?" Yuan Shasha also looked curious as she listened to the middle-aged man's story.

The middle-aged man chuckled and explained, "Didn't I tell you? I'm in the waterway business, so there's nothing I don't know about."

"Because the news here is relatively smooth."

"The ship bosses who come and go cannot hide secrets in their hearts. They usually have no other entertainment activities, and their lives are very boring."

"So, they fell in love with gossip, all kinds of gossip, chatting, so these gossips are gathered here again."

"I can even send information and earn some information fees from them."

After the words fell, the middle-aged man quickly added: "Of course, I don't really collect money, I just let everyone take care of my business, that's all."

"Okay." It felt like the man was talking about his information trading principles. Gu Chen understood and said:

"So, you've been going around in circles for a long time and still haven't told me where the woman we are looking for is?"

"Oh." The middle-aged man reacted and quickly became serious and said:

"Well, as I said before, there are very few women here in our channel, especially women with good figures."

"So, as long as any woman is not ugly and has a good figure, the ship bosses here will have a few words with her intentionally or unintentionally."

"Everyone will guess whose daughter-in-law this woman is? Anyway, they just gossip about everything."

Looking up at Gu Chen and the others, the middle-aged man added, "You know, anyway, I just like to gossip about these women."

"Well, I understand, so, have you seen that woman before?" It felt like the middle-aged man still didn't get to the point.

"Okay." It felt like Gu Chen and the others didn't like hearing this. The middle-aged man calmed down briefly and then said:

"I saw it, just a week ago."

"So? What's the situation?" Officer Wang heard this and asked quickly.

The middle-aged man took a deep breath and said slowly:

"I remember that the woman in the photo was sitting on a cargo ship that day."

"This cargo ship, I remember, seems to be carrying some aquatic products."

"Anyway, I can see some aquatic products in the open-air area on the boat."

"And behind the ship, there is a small cabin."

"What? There are small cabins? Then this ship should be quite big, right?" After hearing what the middle-aged man said, Officer Wang also felt that this kind of ship should be bigger than the ships everyone had seen all the way here just now. Up some.

Because the ship bosses passing by in the channel here are all cargo ships in the open air, and people operate the ships in the open air.

Not to mention having a small room, shelter from wind and rain is a problem.

Therefore, in Officer Wang's opinion, if there is a small independent cabin running on this waterway, it belongs to the Rolls-Royce of the cargo ship. After all, it does have a cabin.

"Okay." I don't know why?Officer Wang's thinking will be so novel.

Of course, this is not a problem that the middle-aged man needs to consider, so he added:

"I remember that this boat seemed to be really used to haul fish."

"I was doing business on this pier. When I was bored, I would lie here in a quiet daze, watching the ships traveling on the waterway."

"Then, I found a boat that suddenly stopped on the shore. The boss of the boat was probably addicted to cigarettes, so he wanted to come to the shore and buy some cigarettes."

"I didn't pay much attention at the time. I just thought it was strange that there was a woman on the boat."

"So I asked one more question, I said, is that your wife? She looks good!"

"What did the boss of the ship say?" Officer Wang asked.

"Harm! What else could he say? Even if he looked back and said it was just by chance, he didn't know him very well."

"I say he is lucky. After all, he has someone to chat with while sailing, and she is a woman. He shouldn't be lonely along the way, right?"

"He also laughed when he heard it. Everyone understood and didn't say anything."

"I don't know whether that woman really came on the boat by the way?"

"After all, I've seen a lot of people riding a free ride these days, but it's really rare to see people riding a free ride."

"First of all, taking a boat is uncomfortable, and the speed is very slow. It is boring along the way."

"But riding in a car is different. The speed of light is incomparable."

With a faint sigh, the middle-aged man also said in confusion:

"So I felt very strange. I felt that if it was a free ride, then this woman would be quite strange."

"Isn't this just asking for punishment for the innocent? So I didn't understand it at all, so I paid more attention."

"No more?" Seeing that the middle-aged man spoke for a long time and then suddenly stopped talking, Lu Weiwei looked at him in confusion.

But the middle-aged man nodded righteously and said: "Yes, no more."

"That's it?" Lu Weiwei was speechless upon hearing this.

But the middle-aged man smiled and said: "It's already pretty good, right? This kind of news, to me, is indeed just a piece of gossip and may not be worth mentioning."

"But it's different for you. If you get this information, it may be of great help to you in solving the case. Really, you should think about it carefully."

"Okay." Gu Chen didn't want to listen to the middle-aged man's nonsense anymore and said quickly:

"What does that ship boss look like? What's his name? Do you know his ship number?"

"I don't know." Faced with Gu Chen's question, the middle-aged man shook his head and continued:

"I only care about chatting and gossiping. The rest, especially recording these things, to be honest, I really don't have the intention."

"You are the co-author to provide us with this little information?" Lu Weiwei felt that her lungs were about to explode after hearing what the middle-aged man said.

I feel like this little vendor is simply a genius.

Are you going to say that he didn't provide anything?But they provided specific information, at least a rough outline of the cargo ship.

But you want to say that he provided it?This guy talked for a long time, but it didn't feel like he said anything, which is intriguing.

Gu Chen also knew that this guy was not even the most basic information dealer.

Just like this, a middle-aged man still dares to say that he is in the intelligence business. What kind of gossip?In Gu Chen's opinion, it was indeed a bit deceptive.

But even if I were to consume some goods from him, I wouldn’t be reluctant to do so.

Gu Chen took a deep breath and asked directly: "How much is it?"

"25 yuan." Seeing Gu Chen preparing to pay, the middle-aged man blurted out quickly and said with a smile:
"Look, if you pay 25 yuan, you can eat, drink and get a lot of snacks."

"Then, you can also get an intelligence clue that you urgently need. Doesn't it feel like you've earned it?"

Gu Chen smiled slightly, feeling that there was no point in arguing with the middle-aged man anymore, so he could only nod in agreement, and then scanned the QR code to pay.

After that, Gu Chen asked some more questions, and then took everyone back to the ship.

At this moment, the ship boss also prepared his own things, and also temporarily added some goods to be delivered at this dock.While Gu Chen and others were talking, the boss of the ship had already loaded his things onto the ship. When he saw Gu Chen and others, he also smiled and said:

"Comrade police, it just happened. You guys just came here. I just finished my own business here. We can leave now."

"Okay, thank you, Master." Seeing the captain of the ship being so polite, Gu Chen also complimented him.

In this way, everyone took the boat boss's boat and continued to the next stop on the channel.

During this period, Gu Chen also quickly asked the boat boss: "Master, are you familiar with the little vendor we met on the dock just now?"

"Small trader?" The boat boss was stunned at first, but he quickly came to his senses and said with a smile:

"You're talking about him? That guy is a genius."

"If you get to know him and don't make some money from you, you will feel like you are disgracing your own business."

With a faint sigh, the ship boss said again: "That guy only cares about making money anyway, but he is not a bad person, he just likes to take advantage."

"I can tell." As soon as the boss of the ship finished speaking, Lu Weiwei directly echoed:
"That guy is definitely a man, and he is so good at doing business that we would be embarrassed not to spend money with him."

"Haha." Listening to the complaints of several people, the ship boss also laughed dryly, and then said again:
"Anyway, this guy is not bad. Have you asked him about the woman you are looking for?"

"That's right." Seeing the ship boss mention this matter, Gu Chen simply said to the ship boss Daming:

"The vendor owner said that he had seen the person we were looking for in a downwind boat. That downwind boat seemed to be transporting aquatic products."

"And there is a cabin at the back of the ship."

"Is there a cabin?" Listening to what Gu Chen said, the captain seemed to be thinking of something?But he hesitated to speak.

Lu Weiwei was a little confused and quickly asked: "What's wrong? Are there really very few ships with cabins traveling on this waterway?"

"No more than 10 ships." Faced with Lu Weiwei's curiosity, the ship boss also told the truth:

"Anyone running on this waterway, we can basically know who the other party is?"

"Because when passing by, everyone will roar a few times on the channel to say hello. This is a habit."

"So, you can see the other party's appearance from a long distance, but if you want to talk about a ship with cabins, that one is a bit big and the cost is a bit high."

"But it is quite rare to sail on this newly renovated waterway. I said there will be no more than 10 ships, which should be accurate."

Listening to the words of the ship boss, Officer Wang nodded silently, and then said:

"This does give us some new investigation ideas. For example, there should be no more than 10 ships with cabins on this waterway. That's easy to handle. We can use the elimination method to investigate."

"Once a suspicious ship is discovered, it can be quickly locked. After all, this is less difficult than other investigations."

"Well, maybe." While talking to Officer Wang, the boat boss took out a cigarette and handed it to Officer Wang and Gu Chen.

After seeing that both of them waved their hands to refuse, the captain of the ship lit one and then said:

"I can help you find out about this kind of ship, especially one that came a week ago."

"I'm not good at anything else, but my brothers in this field are quite reliable."

"If they want to find someone, it's probably easy to find someone. After all, there are only 10 ships with cabins. I will ask you about the situation now."

"That's good work." Lu Weiwei was overjoyed to see the ship boss finally taking it seriously.

Subsequently, the boat boss slowed down the speed of the boat, and then used his mobile phone to contact friends in the group.

Not long after, the ship boss's work group began to talk about it.

Not long after, a netizen in the group immediately replied to the boss.

The ship boss also looked up at Gu Chen and the others after reading it over and over.

"How?" Gu Chen asked curiously.

"My friend said that a week ago, he did see a boat with a cabin and a woman staying there."

"But they didn't pay much attention to the woman's specific appearance, but after hearing my description, they felt that she looked similar."

"Where exactly is that?" Gu Chen asked again.

The boss of the ship said: "At the next pier, someone saw that the ship put a woman down at a pier where cargo was not being unloaded a week ago."

"What do you mean? There is no dock for unloading?" Lu Weiwei's expression was stunned.

But Officer Wang quickly added: "It means that the ship boss has no possibility of trading at this pier, so it usually won't dock, but it has docked again, which means the situation has changed."

"There's basically nothing wrong with it." Listening to Lu Weiwei's analysis, the ship's boss also smiled and said:

"Anyway, at the next pier, there is no commodity trading on that ship, but someone saw the woman getting off from that pier."

"Going down?" After hearing this reply, Officer Wang quickly asked:

"Then the boss of the ship didn't make things difficult for that woman, right?"

"I don't know much about this, but I know that this woman got off at the next pier." The boss of the ship said.

"It's already very good." After listening to the words of the ship boss, Gu Chen nodded silently and said thoughtfully:
"How about, when we get to the next pier, you can put us all on the shore, and we will handle the rest ourselves."

"So, are you planning to take a taxi back?"

"Absolutely." Officer Wang said.

"Okay then." Feeling that things were settled here, the ship boss said again: "The next pier is a bit big."

"You also know that sometimes there are many people here at the pier. The so-called crowd can easily breed random thoughts."

"However, that pier has always had a bad reputation. You should be more careful after you go there."

"The reputation is not very good?" Listening to the ship boss's words, Lu Weiwei couldn't help but smile and said:
"I said to the ship boss, this reputation is not very good. Is it based on word of mouth?"

"More or less, experience is also part of it." Seeing that Gu Chen and others didn't know the specific situation, the ship boss continued:

"It's what people like us in the peer group say. Anyway, for this dock, it means a complete body. I feel like you'd better explode on the spot as soon as possible."

"So, I am also afraid of encountering any special treatment on the dock, so I have always been very careful."

"As long as I can leave that pier, I will never step foot into that pier."

"I feel like the dock area is large and there is a lot of business, so they don't care about cargo ships like me."

"Okay." After listening to the instructions from the ship boss, Gu Chen also felt that since the reputation was not good, someone must be doing something illegal here.

If you want to settle these matters, the average ship boss probably doesn't have the courage.

As a result, many ship owners avoided entering this so-called dock with a bad reputation.

"We're here, right here." As the ship slowly approached the dock, the boss of the ship also warned:
"Be careful with yourselves."

"Don't worry, we are the police, they shouldn't do anything to them." I feel like I have a police card to protect my body, and that is the light of righteousness, specially dealing with these bad people.

Of course, Lu Weiwei also felt that she was thinking too much, because everything in this dock with a so-called bad reputation seemed to be going on in an orderly manner.

Moreover, it didn't look chaotic, so Lu Weiwei seemed to be skeptical about the ship boss's statement.

A moment later, the boss of the ship waved goodbye to everyone on the ship and sailed directly into the distance, disappearing into the sunlight.

"Junior Brother Gu, do you think this place is mainly about ripping off customers?" Lu Weiwei felt that this place was weird, so she asked one more question.

But Gu Chen shook his head and continued:

"I haven't found anything unusual here so far. Maybe there is competition among the vendors here?"

Gu Chen pointed to several directions not far away and said: "There are three canteens here, and they are much larger than the previous dock."

"Well, the area is quite large. I have been to the small pier just now, and now when I come to this pier, it does feel different." Lu Weiwei said.

"Let's go and have a look." Officer Wang looked around and found the nearest mobile vendor. He stepped forward and asked:
"Hello, have you seen this person?" Officer Wang stepped forward and showed the photo of the pancake proprietress.

But this mobile vendor looked like an ordinary man with a bamboo stick.

The reason why he is said to be a bamboo pole man is because the man is so thin that there is no flesh on his face?
The vendor's appearance is also unremarkable, looking like an old cadre.

After hearing what Officer Wang said, the middle-aged vendor immediately raised his head and thought.

"How?" Officer Wang continued to ask with anticipation.

"I haven't seen it before, but I might have seen it before," the middle-aged merchant said calmly.

"Then let's buy something." Officer Wang felt that this mobile vendor was actually in a similar situation to the previous vendor at the dock. They were all the same.

If you buy something from him, whatever you don't know or don't know will eventually become "I know and understand everything".

Of course, Officer Wang has learned the lesson from the previous dock, so it is natural for him to feel that if I, Comrade Wang, take care of your business, you will definitely be grateful.

At least the secret in this regard must be revealed.

However, when Officer Wang was so proud, he thought that the other party would change his tone and reveal the whereabouts of the pancake proprietress.

However, the situation did not develop according to Officer Wang's ideas.

The middle-aged man shook his head and denied: "I have indeed never seen it."

"Isn't it possible?" Now not only Officer Wang was not calm, but Yuan Shasha, who was standing next to him, also began to wonder why and said:

"I said, boss, you are doing well in your business. Moreover, since you are stationed at this pier, you should often meet some ship bosses coming and going. Don't you like to hear gossip? If you hear too much gossip, the news will Very well-informed.”

"You should have at least seen or heard of this woman, so..."

"I'm sorry, I really haven't seen it and I don't know." Before Officer Wang could finish speaking, the middle-aged man interrupted again with his hand, indicating that he didn't know at all.

Now it was Officer Wang's turn to be anxious. He felt like he wasn't taking care of the business enough or something?
But he didn't say how much he wanted to buy specifically?But while Officer Wang was still thinking, Gu Chen had already pulled Officer Wang to his side.

"Gu Chen, what are you doing?" Seeing Gu Chen's serious expression, Officer Wang also asked quickly.

But Gu Chen gave his own opinion: "Has everyone forgotten? The boat boss who sent us all the way by water has left."

"But before he left, he also warned us that this pier has a bad reputation. He didn't even dare to dock at this pier."

After the words fell, everyone looked at each other in confusion.

So Gu Chen said again: "What I mean is that you must pay strict attention to the pedestrians around you."

"Especially those traders. There are three traders on one dock here. It will probably be difficult to gather intelligence together."

"After all, three people each have three ways of getting information."

"Since we can't think of going to a pier, then at least it won't be too bad, right? What's the worst it can be?"

"But one thing is that the ship boss who left didn't say why the reputation here was so bad? Because he didn't dock much."

"Senior Brother Gu." As soon as Gu Chen finished speaking, Yuan Shasha over there also said curiously:

"I always feel that what the ship boss said may not be that simple."

"Don't worry." Gu Chen calmed down briefly and then said again:

"Now we know that this pancake proprietress is most likely the boat that got off from this pier."

"We can't contact the boss of the ship that sent the pancake proprietress here, so we have to use the stupidest method to find him ourselves."

"Yes, then look for it yourself." Feeling that this was the only way at this moment, Lu Weiwei took a deep breath, looked at the other two vendors, and then gave her opinion:

"Since this vendor doesn't know the specific situation, doesn't it mean there's no news from the other two?"

"Ask a few more people, you will always gain something."

"Okay." Officer Wang nodded silently and also made suggestions:

"I suggest that it might be better for you women to ask for information."

Glancing in the direction behind him, Officer Wang also ordered: "Xiao Yuan, how about you go over there and ask?"

"Okay." Yuan Shasha agreed quite readily, and immediately turned around and left.

Then Officer Wang looked at Lu Weiwei again.

Lu Weiwei sighed softly and said helplessly: "No need to say anything, leave the rest to me, no problem."

After the words fell, Lu Weiwei also walked towards the vendor.

Gu Chen and Officer Wang were left standing there waiting for news.

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