Xishi Street is located in the city center. It used to be a shantytown street. During the urban reconstruction in 2008, the shantytowns here were resettled to the outskirts of the city. The remaining old houses have been transformed into buildings with a unique flavor. After being attracted by the government, Planning, now this West Market Street has become a major hotspot in Yuehu City, with people coming and going in an endless stream on weekdays.
Wanheyuan is not close to Xishi Street, and it is still the peak period. It takes at least twenty minutes to drive there. After Yu Guang hung up the phone, he got out of the car, walked forward for a while, and hailed a taxi.
By the time he arrived at the east entrance of Xishi Street, Xu Mingzhi had already arrived.
Before I even got out of the car, I saw the man playing with his mobile phone from a distance. Police officers, especially criminal police officers, always have a temperament that is different from ordinary people. When they are among the crowd, they are like a firefly floating in the dark. It is not bright, but it is attractive enough. look.
"Handsome guy, here we go, fifteen yuan. Should you pay by mobile phone or cash?" The driver's voice brought his eyes back. Yu Guang took out the cash from his bag and handed it to the driver, then got out of the car and walked towards Xu Mingzhi.
Sure enough, before he took two steps, Xu Mingzhi had already raised his head and looked towards him.
"What to eat?" Xu Minzhi asked after the two came together.
Out of the corner of his eye he replied: "Can I stir-fry?"
"OK."
Neither of them spoke on the way. Out of the corner of his eye, Xu Mingzhi led Xu Mingzhi into a small restaurant along the river behind Xishi Street. He found a corner seat, sat down, ordered food, and ordered two bottles of beer.
The landlady brought a plate of peanuts, and Yu Guang poured Xu Mingzhi a glass of wine. After the two took a sip with the peanuts, Yu Guang asked Xu Mingzhi, "Want to ask about Jin Jiaojiao again?"
Xu Mingzhi shook his head and said, "I know you can't say it, I understand."
Hearing this, Yu Guang raised his eyes and stared at him. After a few seconds, he snorted and said, "You don't have to do this with me."
Xu Mingzhi showed a wry smile and said, "This case is about to be closed."
Case closed? Yu Guang couldn't help but raise an eyebrow: "Have you found the murderer?"
Xu Mingzhi picked up the wine glass, looked at the dissipating foam in the glass, and said: "There is no murderer, Jin Jiaojiao committed suicide."
Yu Guang suddenly frowned: "Suicide?"
Xu Mingzhi nodded: "Jin Jiaojiao's parents came to identify the body today. They think they forced Jin Jiaojiao to death. It just so happens that we have never found strong evidence to prove that Jin Jiaojiao was murdered, so the above meaning is Case closed as suicide."
After listening to Yu Guang, he fell silent.
After that, no one said anything. When he was about to finish eating, Xu Mingzhi was called away by a phone call, and Yu Guang drank the rest of the beer alone.
When I walked out of the restaurant, there were people walking in twos and threes in the evening breeze. Children were running around laughing, couples were hugging each other and whispering, everything was so beautiful.
Suddenly, he felt a little dazed in his peripheral vision, as if he had returned to that early summer night, when he and his friends were eating barbecue on the street. The evening breeze was so warm, and everything around him was so cheerful and happy. Then a phone call came and shattered everything. Everything before my eyes. From then on, his life fell into a dark alley. The light was clearly not far away. He could see it, but he couldn't touch it.
He found a stone bench under the shade of a tree and sat down, lit a cigarette and looked at the vivid and beautiful world. The evening breeze carried the tide of the river, wrapped in the sounds of people playing, and was like a big wave, hitting him one after another.
The peripheral vision was in a daze, and it took a long time before he finally calmed down.
He took out his cell phone and looked at the time. It was already past nine o'clock, and there were far fewer people on the street. He got up and walked out of the West Market Street out of the corner of his eye.
Twenty minutes later, he returned to Wanhe Garden.
In the underground parking lot, the Audi car has disappeared.
Yu Guang did not rush to confirm who lived in the room 1601, so as not to arouse the other party's alert. After returning to the car, Yu Guang asked the driver to drive the car back to the parking lot of Lily Night Market, and then walked into the fields outside the parking lot.
May 10, 2016, 1:20 in the morning.
Xu Mingzhi had just returned home from work and his wife had already fallen asleep. After Xu Mingzhi tiptoed to wash up, he was about to enter the bedroom. Suddenly his cell phone rang. Xu Mingzhi was worried about waking his wife, so he hurried into the study.
The call came from the corner of my eye.
"Are you coming for midnight snacks at Lily Night Market?" Yu Guang's voice was cold and indifferent, but it had a kind of magical power that people couldn't refuse.
Xu Mingzhi originally thought that his drama at dinner tonight was in vain, but he didn't expect that the corner of his eye in the middle of the night would give him a surprise. Xu Mingzhi agreed without hesitation, changed his clothes and prepared to go out.
"Are you going out so late?" His wife Wang Yuning woke up at some point and stood at the door of the bedroom, leaning against the door and looking at him quietly.
Xu Mingzhi has been very busy recently, especially after Jin Jiaojiao's case came out. He has not seen her for several days. Seeing her at this moment, I couldn't help but feel guilty, so I turned around and walked to her and hugged her gently. After a moment of silence, I explained softly: "I'm going to see an informant. You go to bed and I'll do it for you in the morning." Love tomato noodles.”
Wang Yuning put her head lightly on his shoulder and didn't say anything. She just hugged his waist but tightened it a little.
Xu Mingzhi didn't urge her, but gently placed his hands on her back to comfort her.
After a few minutes, Wang Yuning finally let go of his hand unwillingly, told him to pay attention to his safety, and then turned around and entered the bedroom. Xu Mingzhi watched her fall asleep on the bed before leaving.
Xu Mingzhi's car was parked on the West Street. He took a taxi to Lily Night Market.
Under the night, with fireworks rising and crowds of people passing by, Lily Night Market is so bustling in the middle of the night that it seems like another world.
It took a lot of effort for Xu Mingzhi to find the rice noodle stall Yu Guang mentioned. Yu Guang, who was wearing a gray jacket, sat quietly at a folding wooden table with his back to him, as if all the noise around him was at odds with him. No relationship.
Xu Mingzhi walked to sit next to him, looked up at him from the corner of his eye, and said, "One hour and eight minutes, too slow."
"It's not easy to take a taxi at night," Xu Mingzhi explained.
Without saying anything more from the corner of his eye, he raised his chin toward the dining car and said, "You can order whatever you want."
After Xu Mingzhi looked at him, he looked at the handwritten menu hanging on the dining cart not far away. There were not many choices on it, so Xu Mingzhi picked the most common one.
"Have you eaten?" Xu Mingzhi asked.
Yu Guang hummed in response.
He was not in a very good mood tonight, and his desire to talk was very low.
Xu Mingzhi saw it and was not in a hurry. Since Yu Guang asked him out, he would definitely say something.
The rice noodles that Xu Mingzhi asked for arrived quickly, and the heat and fragrance made him feel hungry. He lowered his head and blew in the hot air before taking a bite. It was surprisingly delicious.
"It tastes good." After Xu Mingzhi praised it inarticulately, the rice noodles were all gone in just a moment.
After pushing away the bowl and chopsticks, Xu Mingzhi sighed with satisfaction, then looked at Yu Guang and said, "What do you want to say when you ask me out?"
She glanced at him out of the corner of her eye and said, "Aren't you just waiting for me to find you?"
Xu Mingzhi was exposed to the trap, but he didn't feel embarrassed and said shamelessly: "I can't help it. Could it be that this case is really going to end like this?"
Since Yu Guang had decided to ask him out, he naturally would not care about this kind of thing with him anymore. So, after thinking about his words, he said: "I don't know much, and I don't know what's right." You are useful, just listen to what I say!"
When Xu Mingzhi heard this, his expression became serious, and he took out his mobile phone to record. Unexpectedly, out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly reached out and grabbed it. After turning off the phone, he threw the phone aside.
"What are you doing?" Xu Mingzhi frowned.
Yu Guang said with a cold face, "I still want to hang out in Yuehu City."
"Then I won't record. You turn on your phone and give it back to me." Xu Mingzhi said, reaching for the phone, but held it down out of the corner of his eye, staring at him, and said: "Think clearly whether you want the phone or the clues. "
Xu Mingzhi hesitated immediately.
As a professional requirement, his cell phone cannot be turned off. But Yu Guang's words were like a sweet candy that people couldn't refuse.
"Then turn on your phone at the head office!" Xu Mingzhi took a step back.
Yu Guang didn't buy it.
Xu Mingzhi frowned and hesitated for a few seconds before gritting his teeth and saying, "Is five minutes enough?"
He thought for a moment and said, "Three minutes is enough."
"Okay, then hurry up and say it." Xu Mingzhi glared at him, his tone somewhat exasperated.
Yu Guang withdrew his hand, lowered his head and remained silent for three or four seconds before speaking.
"Jin Jiaojiao is a thin horse raised by Fangyuan Group..."
"What?" Xu Mingzhi's eyes widened in surprise at the beginning of his words: "Jin Jiaojiao is Fang Kehui's skinny horse?" This was far from what he had guessed before.
Looking at Xu Mingzhi out of the corner of his eye, he said, "If you act like this, three minutes won't be enough."
Xu Mingzhi was stunned and waved helplessly: "You say it, I won't interrupt you!"
Yu Guang continued: "Jin Jiaojiao has good business skills. Fang Kehui has met her alone several times. I am not sure whether there is a deeper relationship between the two. On April 29, after she got off work from the company, Fang Kehui was His subordinates picked her up and took her to Yunman Resort. That night, she was accompanied by Luo Tiancheng, the boss of Tiancheng Technology. At around 12:40 noon on April 30, Luo Tiancheng left after having lunch at the hotel. Jin Jiaojiao was She didn't leave Yunman Resort until the morning of May 1st and went directly back to Qiaoxi Garden. I don't know if she left Qiaoxi Garden again after that. The person who entrusted me to investigate Jin Jiaojiao was a man named Qin Jiaojiao. Chao. However, I checked and found that Qin Chao and Jin Jiaojiao have no intersection, but Qin Chao is the son of a cousin of Fang Kehui’s wife, Yuanhua, and has been helping Yuanhua manage a large farm in Sujiang. In addition, Since you have tracked me down before, you should also have discovered that I am not the only one following Jin Jiaojiao, but there are also two groups of people. One group of people I have had contact with seems to be a debt collector. As far as I know, Jin Jiaojiao's brother seems to owe a lot of money outside, and these debt collectors are likely to have something to do with her brother. Okay, that's all I know." After saying that, out of the corner of his eye, he took Xu Mingzhi's mobile phone Gave it back to him.
After Xu Mingzhi took it, he quickly turned on the phone, and then put it aside with his peripheral vision. Then, he sorted out the information he just mentioned out of the corner of his eye, and asked thoughtfully: "When you accept a job, do you also check the employer's situation?"
She glanced at him with a frown from the corner of her eye, and after a moment of silence, she explained: "I knew that I went to check after Jin Jiaojiao died."
"You just said that Qin...Qin Chao, who entrusted you to follow Jin Jiaojiao, is a relative of Fang Kehui's wife Yuanhua. In other words, it is Yuanhua who wants to investigate Jin Jiaojiao, right?" Xu Mingzhi asked again .
He took out a pack of cigarettes out of the corner of his eye, smoked one and lit it, then said: "This is your guess, not what I said."
Xu Mingzhi smiled helplessly, and then asked: "You just said that Jin Jiaojiao's brother owes a lot of money outside, and debt collectors come to Jin Jiaojiao. Have they ever contacted him?"
Yu Guang shook his head: "As far as the time I can see, no. However, I don't keep an eye on it 24 hours a day, so I'm not completely sure."
"Have you ever met Jin Jiaojiao's brother?" Xu Mingzhi asked again.
Yu Guang shook his head again: "No."
Xu Mingzhi fell silent after hearing this. After thinking for a while with a frown, he raised his head and asked Yu Guang: "According to your description, you seem to think Qin Chao's side is the most suspicious. Why? Just because the other party asked you to check the gold." Jiaojiao?"
Yu Guang pursed his lips, hesitated for a moment, and then said: "At about seven o'clock in the morning on May 2, the other party suddenly contacted me and said that he wanted to terminate the contract, and paid the full amount in accordance with the contract. And Jin Jiaojiao was on May 1 He died between 11 o'clock and early morning on May 2, right?"
Xu Mingzhi couldn't help but frown when he heard this. This timing was too coincidental, and it was hard for people not to think about it.
Yu Guang also said: "Maybe it's a coincidence, but it doesn't hurt to check."
Xu Mingzhi nodded, then thought about it and asked: "You just said that besides you, there are two groups of people who are looking for Jin Jiaojiao. One group is debt collectors, but what about the other group?"
"I don't know. Those people are very secretive, I don't know." Yu Guang said and frowned and asked Xu Mingzhi: "From your tone, you don't seem to know about this? Didn't you notice?"
There was a hint of sarcasm in Yu Guang's tone. Although Xu Mingzhi was very unconvinced, he had no way to refute this matter. He could only admit with a resigned nod: "I didn't find it."
"Then you can check it out later." Yu Guang said, looking at the time, and then said: "I've said all I can say, let's go!" After that, he stood up.
Seeing this, Xu Mingzhi stood up and asked, "What are you going to do?"
"Call a cab." Yu Guang replied.
"Let's go together." Xu Mingzhi followed Yu Guang out.
Yu Guang didn't give any face: "It's not going smoothly."
"All roads lead to Rome, how could something go wrong!" Xu Mingzhi shamelessly refused to let Yu Guang go alone, so Yu Guang had no choice but to accept his fate. However, there was still a driver in the car, so it was not suitable to talk about the case. There was nothing else to talk about, so neither of them spoke during the whole journey.
From the peripheral vision of the driver who sent me off first, I saw that it was almost four o'clock when we arrived at Tianhe City.
When I got out of the car, I glanced at the sky. The sky was starting to turn a little white.
"Yu Guang!" Xu Mingzhi suddenly called him from behind.
Turning around out of the corner of his eye, Xu Mingzhi was leaning against the passenger window and looking at him with a serious look on his face.
"What's wrong?" Yu Guang frowned slightly.
"Thank you." Xu Mingzhi said softly.
Yu Guang was stunned for a moment, and then he raised his hand to touch the frame of the mirror with some discomfort, and said: "Just this once." After saying that, looking at the smile on Xu Mingzhi's face, he couldn't help but feel embarrassed.
"Let's go, bye!" Xu Mingzhi didn't give Yu Guang a chance to get angry. As soon as he finished speaking, the car slid out.
From the corner of his eye, he watched the taillights fade away, but the vivid expression on his face quickly disappeared and returned to calm.
He thought that if Xu Mingzhi was not a policeman, maybe they could still become friends.
However, as soon as this thought arose, he suppressed it again.
The word friend has long disappeared from his life.
