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Chapter 28 The last piece of the puzzle (6)
As for Xiaoye, if she was there, it would be her fault.

He dialed the report number.

"It was you who reported 'Rouge'..." Wang Shiqi was dumbfounded: "You...really..."

"The blind cat ran into a dead mouse, right? You actually found so many white powders." Zheng Yuan smiled mockingly, "After a week, Xiaoye came back. She said she went back to her hometown and mentioned it to her mother. When we got married, the family was very happy, and the ring was worn back as a matter of course... I used to think that it would be okay, you said, how many couples can love each other to death after such a long life? Are you living with a partner?" He paused: "I never thought that such a life would never be given to me."

Wang Shiqi's eyes turned hot: "You...don't say that, it will be fine in the future, really, I promise!"

"You promise, I haven't cleaned up my mess yet." Zheng Yuan pointed to the ceiling:

"Have you thought about asking something?"

"I thought it was you who came to ask." Wang Shiqi immediately faltered, "I really... can't figure this out..."

Seeing Wang Shiqi's resentful look with his tail between his legs, he knew he was not joking.When Cheng Nuo opened the door, he seemed to have shrunk in height, and greeted him with a low eyebrow, "Hello, Teacher Cheng."

"If you insist on coming home at night, you better talk to me about something serious." Cheng Nuo let the two of them in, and glanced at Zheng Yuan's cane, "What's wrong?"

"Friendly army accidentally injured." Wang Shiqi said.Zheng Yuan glared at Wang Shiqi angrily, who was already curled up on the sofa. "Okay, okay, it's all my fault, can you spare me?" Wang Shiqi rubbed his face vigorously, "I remember today's topic is not the wise and mighty police officer Wang's complaint against the conference?"

"Let's get down to business, what do you want me for?" Cheng Nuo put down the coffee in front of the two of them.

"Let's resolve our common knot." Zheng Yuan opened the wallet and took out Xiaoye's photo. This time he let out a sigh of relief, and finally turned it over and placed it in the center of the coffee table.Cheng Nuo's expression suddenly changed.

"After searching for so long, I have finally come to this point..." She stared at the little leaf on it: "Have you found the murderer?"

"Although not yet, but it's very close." Wang Shiqi interjected, "The most important step is still missing, and that is - you."

"I?"

"Yes. Tell us, what happened to you, Xiaoye and Zhang Huan back then."

The muscles on Cheng Nuo's face twitched: "Do you know what this is for?"

Zheng Yuan didn't answer, and put out the photos in the folder one by one: "The case of the dismemberment of Du Qiangwei ten years ago, the case of Xiaoye's disappearance, and the murder of Xu Ziqian and Yuan Jiashu ten years later, they are not independent cases. Du Qiangwei, Xu Ziqian, Yuan Jiashu and Wu Hui are all classmates in No. 23 High School, as for Xiaoye...she has a close relationship with Zhang Huan, and the relationship between Zhang Huan and Xu Ziqian is not that simple."

"So what? She hasn't been seen for many years."

"What if I said that Xu Ziqian may have been responsible for all the cases so far?" Zheng Yuan leaned closer to Cheng Nuo: "Xiaoye is the only one who has no contact with her. I always thought she was because I reported Du Qiangwei The corpse case was murdered, but now we have Zhang Huan. Tell me, don't worry about me, I already know about your relationship."

Cheng Nuo glanced at Zheng Yuan and Wang Shiqi, who looked at her and nodded slightly.

"It sounds like this Xu Ziqian is not a fuel-efficient lamp." Cheng Nuo's fingers brushed across the close-up of the rose tattoo spread out on the table, "Looking at it together, it's true..."

She said that Xiaoye's tattoo should have been done by Zhang Huan himself.

"Let me just say it, Zhang Huan likes her very much." Cheng Nuo lit a cigarette, with regret on his face, "I was very good with Xiaoye before, really good, really, if it weren't for those friends I met indiscriminately , Xiaoye couldn’t make it to that step later on.”

A friend Cheng Nuo knew held a birthday party in "Rouge", and she brought Ye Zimin along. Zhang Huan sat beside her when he came in. tracked.

"Don't look at Xiaoye's gentle and quiet appearance, she is actually quite wild in her heart, and she is very easy to talk to those gangsters." Not long after returning from the bar, Xiaoye wanted to break up with Cheng Nuo. At that time, Cheng Nuo didn't know it was For Zhang Huan, she bit her to death and refused to let go. The two fought and quarreled. In a fit of anger, Cheng Nuo confiscated the ID card of the other party's mobile phone. Xiaoye sneered and never went back to the dormitory.

Within two weeks, Xiaoye came back with a boy, and she smiled and introduced to Cheng Nuo: "This is my boyfriend, Zheng Yuan." Cheng Nuo was completely desperate, so she returned the things, and they didn't say anything more Excuse me.

Until one day, the senior next door knocked on the door of her dormitory: "Cheng Nuo, hurry down and take care of it, you Xiaoye is drunk down there." She hurried downstairs and pushed the drunk Xiaoye from the lobby back to the bed.When she took off her coat, she found the "Rouge" matchbox in Xiaoye's pocket, which hurt her eyes.

Before, she always thought that Xiaoye dressed up flirtatiously and brightly at night to go on a date with Zheng Yuan, and she even thought that this foreign school student was not a good person. From this point of view, maybe she didn't go out to meet him at all.

She contacted the friend who was celebrating her birthday at "Rouge", and the other party told her hesitantly that Zhang Huan and Xiao Ye had been getting better for quite a long time. "Speaking of which, don't be angry...Brother Huan hasn't liked anyone so seriously in so many years. It doesn't matter if she doesn't look like a joke, so we can't say anything. After all, I hope you say it right... "Cheng Nuo hung up the phone, furious, turned around and wanted to call Zheng Yuan, just halfway through the phone number, Xiao Ye woke up, she stared at Cheng Nuo, suddenly sat up, hugged her by the waist .

"Don't treat me like this..." She cried aloud, her voice was small, weak and pitiful: "Please... I'm afraid..."

The phone in Cheng Nuo's hand suddenly seemed to be filled with tons of lead.Ye Zimin is a little bastard who is full of lies, but there is always something pitiful about a hateful person.As soon as her heart softened, the call was not made again.

"If you want to hate me, you can hate me as much as you want." The cigarette in Cheng Nuo's hand barely moved, and a long piece of ash was burned out. She sighed and pressed it out in the ashtray: "But at that time I really felt , Maybe you are the only one who can make her better."

Her judgment was generally correct, and Xiaoye later calmed down and became a good wife and mother by Zheng Yuan's side.Zheng Yuan dotes on her very much, and it seems that he has never doubted him, although he was never willing to mention what happened in the Yanghe apartment.

"...So, it was a fake from the very beginning." Zheng Yuan stared at the oil painting on the wall in rapt attention. It was a replica, "Judy Killing Holofernes", not the well-known version of Caravaggio, but It is from the female painter Artemisia Gentileschi.The dark setting, the bloody beheaded man, and the two girls in red and blue skirts have no fear on their faces, and they are working together to complete a murder. "That's why she didn't choose Wang Shiqi but me, right? I thought she liked me at least a little bit, but she didn't at all...she...she was just because I was from another school, because I wouldn't doubt her, Probably because I'm stupid..." He wanted to pretend to be relaxed, but the trembling coffee in his hand betrayed him, and Wang Shiqi took the cup from his hand without saying a word.

"She still loves you, believe it or not." Cheng Nuo stood up, "If it was just to deceive me, then she would have broken up with you long ago. If she didn't, it means she couldn't let you go. Including that time...she I don't want to go with Zhang Huan either."

"That time? Which time?" Zheng Yuan asked: "Zhang Huan is going to take her away? When did it happen?"

Cheng Nuo frowned hesitantly: "Not long after 'Rouge' closed, Zhang Huan chased after Xiaoye in the school dormitory. She was scared and ran to my house to hide for a few days. After that, Zhang Huan disappeared. None of us ever saw her again."

"It should be the time when Xu Ye and I went to make a surprise inspection, Zhang Huan ran away, so she went back to catch Xiaoye, and she wanted to take her on the run." Wang Shiqi punched the coffee table, shaking the cup to clang : "If I hadn't let her go..."

"What's the use of being an afterthought now? Didn't this person have already run away?" Cheng Nuo was discouraged all of a sudden: "To startle the snake, she probably changed her appearance a long time ago. I can't find it after searching through eight generations of ancestors."

"That's not necessarily true." Zheng Yuan crossed his fingers and took a deep breath: "Do you still remember what Guo Lidong said? He was driven by Zhang Huan to supply Xu Ziqian. Establishing a drug network is not something that happens overnight. With a big family and a big business, it is impossible for her to give up such a big treasury. After avoiding the limelight for a few years, she should have returned long ago."

"That's what I said, but where can I find her now?"

"Maybe there is really a way." Wang Shiqi suddenly smiled strangely, turned around and dialed a number: "Hello, Maggie? Have the police arrived yet?... Just arrived downstairs? Okay, then do me a favor." He said Glancing at Zheng Yuan, the other party seemed to have sensed his intentions, surprise was already written on his face, before Zheng Yuan could speak, Wang Shiqi blurted out:

"Go up now and help me release Guo Lidong."

trap
In the dark night, Guo Lidong drove a second-hand Honda Fit, sprinting desperately through the streets and alleys.

The crotch was wet, sticky and greasy. When turning a sharp turn, my buttocks slipped on the seat, my breathing came and went, and even the hands of the watch seemed to turn faster than usual.Guo Lidong's eyes were bloodshot, and while secretly cursing himself for bad luck, he accelerated to his destination.

5 minutes ago.

A glass of ice water poured over his face, causing him to tremble reflexively.Guo Lidong opened his eyes dizzily, and just focused on a piece of snow-white chest.

"What time is it, you're still blind!" The owner of the chest knocked him, and he came to his senses: "...Zhu Meiqi!"

"If you don't want to die, just keep your voice down!" Maggie covered his mouth, "The police are already downstairs."

Guo Lidong listened carefully, and that woo-woo-woo sound wasn't the sound of a police car honking.He froze all over: "You are trying to kill me completely!"

"If I wanted to kill you, I would have killed you long ago, why wait now?" Maggie jumped off the bed, and pushed open the transom of the toilet with a "slap". "Go from here, climb over the water pipe, and jump onto the roof opposite. You have to figure out how to get down."

Guo Lidong was completely confused: "What exactly do you want?"

"Brother, you are the one who provoked someone you shouldn't, and I have no other choice, okay! The gun is pointed at the head, forcing me to send you a message, can I not obey?" Seeing him, Maggie was still in a daze. , simply picked him up and pushed him to the window: "Let's be clear first, I didn't report to the police. I usually look up and look down. If I really did this, I will have my legs broken after it gets out."

"Then...then...thank you!" Guo Lidong was finally convinced.He stepped out of the window with one leg, and then turned his head after a second thought: "By the way, today those two... what is the way?"

"How would I know? Do people still report to me?" Majestic gave him a blank look: "But I heard them talking, it seems to be directed at your boss... I said it several times, what is it called... …Zhang……"

"Zhang Huan!" Guo Lidong blurted out, seeing Maggie's face of "Yes, yes, this is the person", he couldn't help but curse.

Even the boss is being targeted, who is this messing with?No matter what, the top priority is to report first...

Guo Lidong jumped up to the roof tremblingly with his paralyzed left leg, slapping his pockets up and down as he crossed the rooftop.Where is my cell phone?
He wanted to stab himself, but unfortunately he only had the car keys in his pocket, so he let out an annoyed "ah", turned his head and ran to the parking place.

At the same time, Meiqi smiled and took out Guo Lidong's mobile phone, threw it into the sink, and walked away.

"You located his car?" Zheng Yuan said with a look of disbelief, "It's not in compliance with the rules."

"Extreme times call for extraordinary measures." Wang Shiqi was noncommittal: "I've been suspended from my post now. It wasn't Police Officer Wang who did this, but Wang Shiqi."

Zheng Yuan rubbed his temple with a headache: "When did I do it, why don't I know?"

"When I went out to ask Xu Ye for help in checking Zheng Que, I asked the parking lot." Wang Shiqi smirked: "It's not bad, no matter who drives away in the end, you can still get something."

A sharp reminder sounded, and the GPS positioning red dot on the phone screen flickered a few times, and it stopped next to an abandoned building.

"Okay, the bait has been dropped, let's see if we can catch a big fish this time." Wang Shiqi kicked the gas pedal, and the silver-gray body shot out like a bullet, shooting towards the target.

Guo Lidong scrambled out of the car with his trousers in his hands, ran up the fire escape, twisted and turned for a while, and finally rushed into a wooden door wrapped in red velvet.

"Brother Huan! Brother Huan is not good! Someone wants to trouble you, Brother Huan!" His voice echoed in the empty darkness, and suddenly, a bit of cold metal touched the back of his neck.

"Why didn't you call first."

"Lost...lost... Brother Huan, listen to me, two men came to the door today, they..."

"Shut up." The voice was colder than metal.Guo Lidong didn't dare to turn his head, his sweat splashed on the dusty floor.

"It's not wrong to say that you are a waste."

In front of Wang Shiqi and Zheng Yuan is an abandoned movie theater.

A legacy of the 20s in the 90th century, the large hand-painted posters have faded to the point where they are almost invisible. Zheng Yuan raised his head and glanced at the glass bulb that was about to shatter: "Have we seen movies here before?"

"Why haven't I seen it before? Tunnel warfare, landmine warfare, and Jackie Chan's later, ten yuan a ticket, free of charge through the window." Wang Shiqi smiled: "You kid must have found the window."

"It's a discovery, I didn't instigate you to climb." Zheng Yuan kicked Wang Shiqi's ass: "Go in quickly. If you're late, you won't be able to catch up with the good show."

"That's right." Wang Shiqi raised his hand and tore off the seal of the glass door, and strode in.

This movie theater was remodeled from an old-fashioned auditorium, with a high ceiling on the second floor and a large interior space. A slight movement can cause huge echoes.Zheng Yuan stepped into it next to Wang Shiqi, the room was pitch black, the beam of light from the mobile phone could only see a few steps away from his feet, the dust was flying, and Wang Shiqi couldn't help but sneezed.

"Hush..." Zheng Yuan turned his ear: "Did you hear anything?"

Wang Shiqi moved his ears, as if he really heard some kind of regular soft sound: Da, Da, Da, Da... He looked forward along the source of the sound—there was the wooden stage in the middle.

"This way." Wang Shiqi grabbed Zheng Yuan's wrist, guiding him to follow him closely.The moment he stepped on the stage, he finally got used to the dim light, and then he saw clearly that there was a large dark red curtain in front of him, the top half of which had collapsed, revealing the broken wooden structure behind, and the ticking sound came from behind of.

Wang Shiqi reached out and grabbed the rough fabric: "What do you think?"

Zheng Yuan shook his head lightly: "There are more bad luck than good luck."

With Wang Shiqi's slight tug, the curtain fell with a bang, and a figure hanging upside down appeared in front of them—it was Guo Lidong.He had lost consciousness and was hung in mid-air by his ankles, with a blood hole in his neck.What they heard was the echo of his blood spattering on the floor.

"Alive!" Zheng Yuan went up to feel his pulse, and immediately covered the wound with his hands. He hugged Guo Lidong's shoulders and sent him up, trying to untie him.Wang Shiqi quickly glanced around and saw half a red footprint on the floor, with the tip pointing to a wing of the backstage.

"I just did it, so the person hasn't run far." Wang Shiqi ran after him: "Stay here and call an ambulance!"

(End of this chapter)