The Case of Love

Chapter 90 Fingerprints on Steel Pipes
When he came back, Xia Mo had already fallen asleep. Su Xiaohan was sitting in the corridor, staring blankly ahead, as if thinking about something.

"Xiao Han, eat something!" Zhou Yifeng sat next to her and took out a lunch box and chopsticks from the bag.

"Thank you, Captain Zhou!" Su Xiaohan smiled gratefully and took the lunch box.

"Is Xia Mo feeling better?" Zhou Yifeng asked.

"She fell asleep just after you left. The doctor said she had just recovered and couldn't think too much. But it seems that she is completely awake, but I don't know if this awakening is a good thing for her." Su Xiaohan fiddled with the lunch box without any appetite.

"Of course it's a good thing that she can recover. Give her some time, I believe she will get better. Besides, don't we still have Officer Su?" Zhou Yifeng turned and looked at Su Xiaohan, full of confidence in her.

His eyes were burning, and Su Xiaohan felt a little embarrassed. She lowered her head and whispered, "Captain Zhou, I feel useless. I didn't dare to ask Xia Mo the questions you asked just now. Every time she said something, my heart felt like it was stabbed by a knife. It was so uncomfortable..."

"I understand. I can't imagine what my brother has been like these years. I often have nightmares of him being beaten and abused, with bruises all over his body. But I always believe that I can find him. I never give up hope." Zhou Yifeng's eyes were shining. He felt the pain that Su Xiaohan was feeling at the moment.

"Thank you, Captain Zhou. I feel much better after talking to you. I will help Xia Mo get better, and I will work with you to find out who is behind Sun Xiaofei and the old lady." Su Xiaohan met Zhou Yifeng's gaze, and her heart seemed to be illuminated by him.

"Eat quickly. Only when you are full will you have the energy to work." Zhou Yifeng pointed at the lunch box in her hand, motioning her to eat.

Su Xiaohan smiled innocently and nodded vigorously, opened the lunch box and took a big bite of rice.

"There is only one restaurant nearby, so just eat there. I'll treat you to a good meal another day." Zhou Yifeng felt reluctant as he looked at Su Xiaohan.

Because of Su Xiaohan, he not only changed his view of the policewoman, but also admired her from the bottom of his heart. Her family was well-off, but she only wanted to be a police officer. She was smart and kind, and she never complained when she went on missions with a few grown men like them. Gradually, he felt that his feelings for her were more than just admiration. He admired her and even liked her, but he could only hide this liking in his heart now, and he dared not and could not say it. He once secretly vowed to find his brother. If he couldn't find his brother, he didn't deserve to talk about love.

It was already night when the two came out of the hospital. Zhou Yifeng sent Su Xiaohan to her home and watched her go in.

He hadn't had a good rest in the past few days, and he was getting sleepy. He parked his car on the side of the road, ready to take a nap before driving. After an unknown amount of time, he was awakened by the sound of knocking on the car window.

He opened his sleepy eyes and saw Su Xiaohan standing outside the car.

He rolled down the window and asked, "Xiao Han, why are you back again?"

"I saw you were still upstairs, so I came over to see you. These are the dumplings my sister made. Take them home and eat them." Su Xiaohan handed the bag in her hand to Zhou Yifeng.

"Your sister should have made it for you, right? I'm full, I won't take it." Zhou Yifeng declined.

"I've finished mine, this one is yours!" Su Xiaohan didn't allow him to refuse. She opened the car door, put the bag on his lap, and ran away without looking back.

"Xiaohan!"

Zhou Yifeng didn't call her back, so he had to accept the dumplings. He opened the paper bag and was greeted by a burst of fragrance, which made him unable to resist eating one.

After eating the buns, he pushed open the car door and got out. Looking up, he saw Su Xiaohan standing on the open-air balcony upstairs looking down.

He waved to her, and when he saw her waving back at him, he drove away contentedly.

The light from the window and the person standing there made his heart, which had been frozen for a long time, feel warm. The next day, Sun Yidan's test results came out, and the blood on the steel pipe was Zhang Tai's. She also extracted fingerprints from the steel pipe, but there was no fingerprint of Chen Hongjie in the fingerprint database, so she could not compare it. Moreover, this fingerprint was not in the fingerprint database.

Zhou Yifeng and others sat together to discuss what to do next.

"Captain Zhou, I'll go check if there are any consumption records for Chen Hongjie after he arrived in Beijing," Su Xiaohan suggested.

"This is an idea, you can check it out!" Zhou Yifeng agreed.

"I'll check Chen Hongjie's social relationships to see if there's anything I missed," said Li Zhisong.

"Boss, do you want to issue a wanted order?" Ma Nan asked.

"Let's first check according to what Xiaohan and Zhisong said to see if there are any new clues." Zhou Yifeng replied.

Zhou Yifeng assigned tasks to Ma Nan, Zhu Xiaofeng and Xu Jungang, asking them to investigate on their own and report to him immediately if they had any new findings.

Several people were busy separately. When investigating Chen Hongjie's consumption records, Su Xiaohan found that his bank card had many consumption records at a supermarket called "Happy Home". Su Xiaohan speculated that he probably lived near the supermarket.

Zhou Yifeng arranged for Ma Nan and Xu Jungang to check the supermarket's surveillance. He took Su Xiaohan, Li Zhisong and Zhu Xiaofeng with him and divided them into two groups to visit nearby communities.

There are two communities close to Huanlejia Supermarket, one is Mingyuan Community and the other is Yangguang Community. At the street corner, the two groups separated, Zhou Yifeng and Su Xiaohan went to Mingyuan Community, and Li Zhisong and Zhu Xiaofeng went to Yangguang Community.

Arriving at the gate of the community, Zhou Yifeng and Su Xiaohan first went to the security guard to find out what was going on. After looking at Chen Hongjie's photo, the security guard thought for a while and said, "I have an impression of him. He always comes back very late, and he always brings a woman with him."

Zhou Yifeng and Su Xiaohan looked at each other. They were both very excited. They didn't expect to find Chen Hongjie so soon.

"Brother, do you know which building he lives in? It would be even better if you could know which unit and which door he lives in!" Su Xiaohan asked hurriedly.

"I really don't know about this, but you can ask the property management to help check. The property management is in the small building inside." The security guard said as he pointed the way for them.

After thanking the security guard, Zhou Yifeng and Su Xiaohan walked into the yard together.

"Xiaohan, call Zhisong and the others and ask them to come and meet us!" Zhou Yifeng said to Su Xiaohan.

"Yes, Captain Zhou!" Su Xiaohan agreed and dialed Li Zhisong's number.

Knowing that they had clues about Chen Hongjie, Li Zhisong and Zhu Xiaofeng ran over excitedly and arrived soon.

They originally thought that they could find Chen Hongjie's address quickly, but they didn't expect that the property staff of the community checked and said that there was no owner named Chen Hongjie in the community.

"Captain Zhou, I guess Chen Hongjie rents a house in the community and is not the owner of the community." Su Xiaohan said first.

"It is also possible that Chen Hongjie lives in a friend's house, or the house is his but his name is not the owner on the property certificate." Li Zhisong also expressed his thoughts.

(End of this chapter)