When Xu Mingzhi met Jin Jiaojiao's parents, he didn't bring anyone else with him. However, the news about Jin Jiaojiao's parents' request to take away Jin Jiaojiao's body still leaked out.
Huang Hongwei soon found out. This time, he did not ask Xu Mingzhi again, but went directly to the conference room and met Jin Dayong and his wife.
He stayed in the conference room for nearly twenty minutes.
When Xu Mingzhi found out, it was after he was called to the director's office.
"Jin Jiaojiao's case should be closed!" Huang Hongwei looked at Xu Mingzhi and showed no expression when he spoke.
Xu Mingzhi frowned and wanted to argue, but Huang Hongwei didn't give him a chance and asked him directly: "I know you are cautious, but how many days have passed since Jin Jiaojiao's body was found? Have you found any evidence?"
Xu Mingzhi was speechless.
"There are many possibilities for the missing mobile phones and silk scarves. They may have been picked up by passers-by and thrown into the trash can, and then sent to the garbage dump. They may have been picked up by someone and taken home, or they may even have been thrown into the river. , but you didn't find it. None of this may be used as a basis for homicide. You can't just rely on your intuition and keep dragging this case out, right? This is a waste of police power, do you understand? There are a lot of things in the bureau right now, you With your team, have you spent the past few days on this case? If you really found any evidence, then I support you! But you didn't. The most important thing is that now the family members also think that their daughter committed suicide. "What reason do you have to persist? Huh?" Huang Hongwei's questions made Xu Mingzhi feel a little suffocated.
He really couldn't seem to find a reason to persist.
Xu Mingzhi lowered his head feebly.
Seeing him like this, Huang Hongwei couldn't bear it, so he sighed, softened his tone, and advised: "Listen to me, this case is like this. I will let Xiao Zhang handle the follow-up matters. You go back in the afternoon and take care of yourself. Take a rest, you haven’t had much sleep for many days, right? The dark circles under your eyes are almost like those of a panda! Okay, let’s go back!”
Xu Mingzhi didn't struggle anymore, turned around and left.
In the big office, Shen Mei and Wang Dayun had received the news. When they saw Xu Mingzhi coming in with a bad expression, they all looked at him with some worry. Xu Mingzhi forced a smile and said, "Everyone has worked hard these days. We have a holiday this afternoon. Let's all go back and have a rest!" After saying that, he walked directly to his small office without waiting for anyone's reaction.
Shen Mei followed in.
"Boss, are you okay?" Shen Mei asked, handing over a chocolate.
Xu Mingzhi took it and said with a helpless smile: "Don't worry, I'm fine." After saying that, he braced himself and ordered: "Jin Dayong and the others shouldn't leave so quickly. You should let Lao Wang work hard these two days. You still have to keep an eye on it.”
Shen Mei nodded while observing Xu Mingzhi. After seeing that his face looked much better, she went out with confidence. After she left, Xu Mingzhi packed up his things and went downstairs to drive. The car drove out of the city bureau gate. The shadows of trees on the road outside were scattered, dark and gloomy, which made people feel drowsy.
After Xu Mingzhi drove for a while, he parked the car on the side of the road, then leaned over the steering wheel, closed his eyes, and felt tired, but in an instant, he no longer knew what night it was.
He hadn't slept so deeply in years.
For Xu Mingzhi, it was not too surprising that Jin Jiaojiao's case would end like this. From the first time Huang Hongwei talked to him, he had already had a premonition. He was just a little unwilling, feeling a little unwilling for Jin Jiaojiao.
She tried so hard to change her own destiny, and she tried so hard to love her family, but in the end, she ended up like this, which was both absurd and sad.
What kind of world is this!
Xu Mingzhi had a dream. In the dream, a girl wearing a lotus white dress was sitting on the railing by the river in the park. When the wind blows, her long chestnut hair rises and outlines her beautiful side face, pure and charming.
He wanted to step forward and tell her that the river was dangerous. But just as he moved his feet, the girl in front of him suddenly turned her head, and a swollen and damaged face suddenly appeared in front of him.
The face was familiar yet terrifying. Even though Xu Mingzhi had seen it before, he was still frightened at this moment. He woke up from his dream with a heavy breath, leaned back in his chair, and it took him a while to finally recover. Only then did he hear the faint ringtone of his cell phone coming from the briefcase next to him.
I took it out and saw that it was Yu Guang's phone number.
Xu Mingzhi suddenly felt a sense of guilt in his heart. Yesterday, in order to get clues out of Yu Guang's mouth, he did not hesitate to act and lie. He did not want his words to come true, and Jin Jiaojiao actually committed suicide.
At this time, he was actually a little embarrassed to face Yu Guang.
He hesitated for a while, and finally picked up the call before it hung up.
"What's wrong?" Xu Mingzhi hid the frustration and guilt that was raging in his heart and asked pretending to be calm.
There was noisy traffic outside the window, and Yu Guang's voice came clearly to my ears: "Something may have happened to Liu Liu."
Xu Mingzhi was stunned for a moment before he reacted and asked, "What do you mean?"
Yu Guang's voice was a little solemn: "Her mother has been unable to contact her. Although this little girl is a bit rebellious, she should not deliberately not contact her mother."
After hearing this, Xu Mingzhi recalled what he had said to him out of the corner of his eye in the morning. After thinking for a while, he said: "It may not be that something happened to Liu Liu. You also said that this little girl is a bit rebellious. She may be just for We have encountered quite a lot of things like resisting our mother and deliberately preventing her from contacting her. Some time ago, a family member in Xiacheng District reported that their daughter was missing and suspected that she had been kidnapped. As a result, After checking for a long time, I finally found out that this little girl ran away from home because she was dissatisfied with her parents always talking about her. Finally, she ran out of money and had no place to go, so she came back. I guess this is the same for Liu Liu. You see, she today Her disappearance was actually premeditated. She first asked her mother to see you to gain a certain amount of trust, and then used you as a cover to elope with her boyfriend. So, nothing should have happened to this little girl. She just simply didn’t want to Just contacting her mother."
On the other end of the phone, Yu Guang was sitting in a car. Not far away from the window was Wanhe Garden. After listening to Xu Mingzhi's words, his face clearly showed anger, but it was quickly suppressed.
"Even if she did it on purpose, can you do me a favor and find out where she is now. Her mother is very anxious." Yu Guang said.
Xu Mingzhi frowned slightly when he heard this. He didn't hear any emotion in Yu Guang's voice, but it was this calmness that made him feel something was wrong.
He hesitated and asked: "Are you angry?"
"Just tell me if you are willing to help?" Yu Guang became impatient.
Xu Mingzhi suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his mind, and he immediately understood where Yu Guang's emotions came from. He immediately said, "Help! I'll have someone check it out now."
"Then I'll wait for your news." Yu Guang said and hung up the phone. Xu Mingzhi didn't waste any time. He immediately called the contact person and asked someone to check.
The people under his command acted quickly, and it didn't take long for the news to arrive. But after hearing this, Xu Mingzhi's face darkened.
He called Yu Guang: "Where are you? I came to see you?"
The two made an appointment at a cafe near Wanheyuan. It was dinner time, and there were many people in the coffee shop. Yu Guang asked for a private room. Not long after he arrived, Xu Mingzhi arrived.
As soon as he sat down, Xu Mingzhi picked up the lemonade on the table and took a sip. Then he said to his peripheral vision: "You may have guessed it right. Something may have happened to Liu Liu." As he said that, he handed over his mobile phone and signaled Look at the screen out of the corner of your eye. On the screen, Liu Liu was beside a black off-road vehicle, holding the door and preparing to get in.
"It's a fake car, and the owner's information cannot be found. The car was nowhere to be found after leaving the city. This photo was the last time Liu Liu appeared on the surveillance screen, near the bus stop outside Futian Village. The driver should be a veteran , I didn’t let surveillance cameras capture my face all the way.”
After taking the phone out of the corner of his eye and looking at it carefully for a while, he raised his head and asked Xu Mingzhi: "Why is she going to Futian Village?"
Hearing this, Xu Mingzhi swiped right on the phone screen, pulled out another photo, and asked Yu Guang: "Do you know this man?"
On the screen, there was a young man in his early twenties. He was fashionably dressed and good-looking, but he was a little feminine, and his eyes were a little wandering and evil.
He glanced at it from the corner of his eye and shook his head: "I haven't seen it before."
Xu Mingzhi said: "The surveillance near the Futian Village bus station captured Liu Liu meeting this man after getting off the bus in Futian Village. The two behaved intimately, and they should be boyfriend and girlfriend."
"Where is this person now?" Yu Guang asked immediately after hearing this.
Xu Mingzhi replied: "I have sent someone to look for him in Futian Village. However, if Liu Liu was taken away by him, he should no longer be in Futian Village by now."
Yu Guang disagreed. After pondering for a while, he shook his head and said, "He probably didn't take Liu Liu away. If he took her away, there would be no need for him to hide from surveillance when he drove Liu Liu out of the city."
"It's also possible that he just wanted to create this feeling!" Xu Mingzhi said.
After glancing at him out of the corner of his eye, he became thoughtful. Xu Mingzhi's guess is not completely impossible.
The two of them did not continue the discussion. It was already getting late and both of them were hungry, so they called the waiter in and ordered food.
While waiting for the meal, Xu Mingzhi wanted to mention the Jin Jiaojiao case to Yu Guang several times, but he never knew how to speak. Finally, the food was served, but he still couldn't tell Yu Guang what happened.
The two of them were pretentious in their minds, and neither of them spoke. After eating in silence, Xu Mingzhi finally received a call on his cell phone. Just as Yu Guang expected, Xu Mingzhi's people found the young man. But the young man said he didn't know where Liu Liu had gone.
"Where is he? I want to see him." Yu Guang said to Xu Mingzhi.
After Xu Mingzhi hesitated for a moment, he asked for the address, and then rushed over with Yu Guang.
