Pubei District, Cuizhuyuan Community, the east door on the first floor of Unit 3 of Building 2. This house has a first floor with a courtyard and a sink. It is actually a basement, but it can be lived in after renovation. marriage
Currently living here is a middle-aged couple with three children.
Xu Zheng came here with Zhuang Qiang and Ji Meiyue, together with two comrades from the community police station. The main purpose of coming this time was to try their luck and see if there was any evidence left by Du Longtao and the others in the house.
In this situation, Xu Zheng and the others definitely don't have a search warrant, so they want Ji Meiyue to follow and prepare to be moved.
These two comrades from the police station are the contact persons of this community, also known as grid members. In fact, they have basically never been to this community. It can be seen from the communication between the comrades from the police station and the property management that they are not familiar with it. .
The hostess of the house happened to be at home today. First, someone from the property management knocked on the door and said a few words. Then naturally, a community police officer in police uniform introduced Xu Zheng and the other three to the hostess.
The hostess of the house was in her forties, and her son, who was in high school, was in the house. Of course, Ji Meiyue would not say that she came to her house to explore evidence left by the previous owner, but would use a false reason.
It is said that when the house was being built, a worker hid a suspicious metal object in the basement building. marriage
Of course, I would not tell the hostess what it was exactly. However, this formation still frightened the hostess. She was at a loss and let Xu Zheng and others enter the house first, but stopped Xu Zheng and went straight to the sink. The room was searched.
Because she wants to wait for her husband to come back.
Xu Zheng felt that this was understandable, so he would wait for a while, but he asked the property management and police station people to go back first. It was better not to make too much noise about this matter.
The male owner of the house soon came back with his two daughters. People who can live here are considered to be elites in Changming. The male owner is more independent than the female owner, a housewife. After meeting and introducing each other, he let the children go back to the house. Then he asked Xu Zheng in detail what they wanted to do.
Xu Zheng didn't want to waste time on this, so he gave Zhuang Qiang a wink.
Zhuang Qiang understood, and he took out his ID with a serious face, "Mr. Xie, we just said we were police in front of the children. In fact, we are investigators of the Serious Case Brigade of the Criminal Police Detachment of the Municipal Bureau. There is currently a major criminal case that requires Please cooperate with us. The main thing is that we need to check your room and all the rooms."
The male host seemed to be an executive of a certain company. He knew what the crime squad was doing, so he finally chose to cooperate. "Comrade police, may I ask if there has been a murder in our house?"
Zhuang Qiang is a tall man of over 1.8 meters, with a bald head and a slightly fierce appearance. Apart from his bald head, he is more in line with the image of a criminal policeman in people's minds these days.
"There has been no murder here, and there has been no criminal crime in the house. We are just investigating whether a builder hid metal objects here when the house was built."
Facing Zhuang Qiang's explanation, the male host and the hostess struggled for a long time, but finally chose to believe the police.
Next, Xu Zheng and the others, led by the male host, first checked the two rooms on the lower floor.
There is a room here that belongs to the high school student. Xu Zheng and the others started working after they invited the child out.
It's just that the three of them have no idea what to do with this room, because the walls are covered with wallpaper, and there's no way there's any trace of it from ten years ago.
And even if you take off all the wallpaper, you probably won’t be able to find it. marriage
Faced with this situation, although Xu Zheng was mentally prepared when he came, he still sighed deeply, "It seems that there is no news here. I think instead of investigating the room, it is better to ask the owner of the house about the situation." Details of Du Longtao’s transaction.”
Zhuang Qiang and Ji Meiyue didn't have any objections. If this room is like this, other rooms are probably similar. In this case, there is really no need to check.
"What we just said to the homeowner is to conduct a comprehensive investigation of their home. I suggest you do a complete show and go out later. I'll ask. I feel like I'm more trusted by the homeowner than you two." Zhuang Qiang looked proud.
Ji Meiyue didn't have any objections, but thought of a clue, "Ten years ago I was in high school.
It seems that at that time, if a house was to be sold, an agent would be hired. When the agent listed the house online, he would take photos of the house. After a while, you would ask them which real estate agency they used to buy and sell the house through. "
Xu Zheng's eyes lit up and he couldn't help but praise: "They say love makes people stupid. Sister Meiyue, you are doing the opposite."
Ji Meiyue rolled her eyes at him, "You're a mouthful, but even if you have the previous photos, it's hard to say whether you can find evidence, and it's hard to say whether the evidence will be useful."
Xu Zheng was very optimistic and said with a smile: "No matter what, this is always a direction of investigation, which is better than having no clues."
Next, the three of them looked through the house pretending to investigate. It must be said that with the current atmosphere of this family's life and the rearrangement of the house, even if Du Longtao came in person, he would not be able to recognize that this was his former house.
Since nothing was found, they could only talk to the owner. However, because the owner traded the house five years ago, they had only met the former owner Du Longtao once, and they did not provide any useful clues at all.
However, they clearly remember the second-hand intermediary company they traded with back then.
After finishing these questions, Ji Meiyue suddenly asked the hostess: "Sister, after you bought the house and before renovating it, did you take photos of the house or post on TikTok?"
Unexpectedly, the landlady actually gave Xu Zheng and the others a surprise. She had actually taken a video of Du Longtao’s house before. Because she had no job at the time and had been taking care of her children at home. She had a lot of time and liked to shoot Douyin videos. I bought this one. You can’t take a few photos and videos of the house and post them on Douyin to commemorate them.
Xu Zheng looked at Ji Meiyue. Sure enough, women are still attentive. People like him who don't play Douyin probably can't even think of this.
On the way back, Zhuang Qiang drove, and Xu Zheng and Ji Meiyue sat in the back watching the video of the landlady. marriage
She actually has 50,000 to 60,000 fans. Her main videos are about cooking home-cooked dishes. She has posted a lot of videos over the years. After searching for a long time, I finally found them.
There is a one-shot video and a video in the form of photos, which are basically comparisons of the house before and after decoration.
But basically everything that could be photographed was captured. As for whether there are any clues, we have to wait until we return to the detachment to carefully screen them.
After returning home, Zhuang Qiang went to the technical department to screen the photos in the video. Ji Meiyue had to train Wei Yi, and only Xu Zheng was free.
Just as he was asking Li Wanwan to sort out today's attendance records, Zhang Yuqi came over and said, "I have applied to the Wan Detachment for thirty police officers to go to Cuizhuyuan Community to conduct inspections. You can go to the scene and take charge when you have time."
This is to investigate the residents who lived in Cuizhuyuan Community ten years ago. This is a big project. However, when the community just moved in in 2024, there were not many people, but even if there were not many, there were many residents in such a large community at that time.
Zhang Yuqi means that everything that can be found must be checked. This workload is huge, and the property security and even the sanitation and cleaning of the community must also be checked. marriage
Xu Zheng was not interested in this job at all. Even if he went there, he would just add another police force. "Captain, leave this job to Peng Yue. I don't want to go out in the afternoon. I want to sort out our investigations during this period. I always feel Something is missing."
Seeing what he said, Zhang Yuqi immediately agreed to his suggestion, "Then think carefully. In this way, the investigation work is trivial and troublesome, so it would be appropriate for me to go."
Peng Yue, who was still on his way back, shivered inexplicably. He didn't know that he was almost arranged by Xu Zheng.
Is the investigation easy to do?
Of course it’s not easy to do. Many people don’t support police work now. This was asked ten years ago. Even if a hundred property owners have seen five women appear in this community, after so long, only one person can remember it. That’s pretty good.
When Xu Zheng saw Zhang Yuqi leaving, he took his big water cup to Wan Haihong's office. It was now 11:30 in the morning. This is a time when the leaders are relatively free. No one would come here with documents at this time. , What if I disturb the leader’s lunch, no, if I miss my meal, I will still be the one who will starve.
When Wan Haihong saw Xu Zheng coming to his office, he took some tea leaves and made a large cup of water. He was heartbroken.
, "Your cup is 2,000 milliliters, right? Why do you put so much tea in it?"
"Look at what you said. You are an expert at drinking tea. If you have a big cup of water, you don't need to put an extra tael of tea leaves." Of course Xu Zheng and Wan Haihong were not polite. Although he and Wan Haihong were not in a master-disciple relationship, But there is also a master-disciple relationship.
Even colleagues outside the city bureau thought Xu was his apprentice.
In fact, they are almost the same as master and apprentice.
Seeing his shameless attitude, Wan Haihong laughed and shook his head, "Tell me, what do you want from me?"
Xu Zheng was indeed not here to drink tea. At his age, he had no interest in tea tasting at all. He put the big water cup away and briefly explained the Second Brigade's investigation into Wu Mei's disappearance.
Then he expressed his doubts, "Team Wan, you see, usually three people commit a crime, especially in cases where a man and a woman have a relationship, the suspects will be addicted, it should be said that it is difficult to break these habits, and three people commit a crime, no Maybe three people gave up at the same time?"
Ping Mengmeng was the last woman to disappear in February 2025, then Xue Jiaping went abroad in 2028, Du Longtao sold his house in 2029, and then Bai Xiaoyan changed her name to Bai Shuting and married Yan Hongqiang, the eldest brother of the society. marriage
There was such a long time between the last deadline of the disappearance case and Xue Jiaping going abroad. How did the three of them break their addiction to prostitution and murder?
Wan Haihong is well-informed and has encountered many cases in his life. He likes to smoke when he is thinking. No, he just takes out a cigarette and lights it on fire. "Generally, it is as you said. Once criminals start committing crimes, it will be difficult for them to do so." stop.
The cases you investigated before prove this point.
But this doesn't represent everything. "
Wan Haihong turned on the computer with a cigarette in his mouth. After some operations, he pointed at the screen and said to Xu Zheng: "Look, there is a famous case in Northwest Province. The murderer likes to coat the body with a layer of metal after killing people. This kind of crime The method was very unique, but it came to an abrupt end after he committed several crimes in a row.
As a result, more than ten years later, the case remained unsolved. It was not until many years later that the truth was exposed to the world by chance.
It turns out that the murderer was in a car accident that year and had to use a wheelchair for his lower body. marriage
Then he was unwilling to live in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. What should he do? So he started writing a diary, and later he wrote about detectives.
Because the writing is so real.
This was not suspected, and then one day the truth came out. "
Xu Zheng had heard about this metal case, which was quite tortuous and bizarre. "I heard that he made a lot of money from writing it. It's really cool."
Wan Haihong also laughed, "So, the reason why Du Longtao and the others stopped committing crimes after 2025 may be because the whole city of Changming investigated the case. At that time, we really almost turned Changming upside down. .
It is also possible that something happened to the three of them, or that something happened to one of them, so that they could no longer continue committing crimes. "
Xu Zheng also thought about these two reasons, but he thought about the second one and asked: "Du Longtao, Xue Jiaping, and Bai Shuting don't seem to have any physical problems for so many years. Regarding this, I checked their physical examinations in major hospitals in Changming. The report found that Du Longtao and Bai Shuting were in normal marriage.
Could it be that something went wrong with Xue Jiaping? "
It's a pity that Xue Jiaping is far away in Australia. Even if Xu Zheng wants to know his physical condition, there is nothing he can do.
Wan Haihong didn't think so, "How old is Du Longtao this year?"
"38." Xu Zheng said smoothly, and then discovered that the man named Du was actually 38 years old. How could he not be married and have children at his age, status, and net worth?
It's not normal, even their big boss married Bai Shuting and gave birth to a son.
"You mean, there is something wrong with Du Longtao's health?"
Wan Haihong took a long drag on the cigarette, closed his eyes and thought for a while, "As you can see from your investigation, Du Longtao was a man of both genders, which shows that his body was normal at that time."
But how could a normal person be nearly forty years old and not have a child? If someone is unwilling to stay in the world, Yan Hongqiang's status is not higher than him?
Therefore, his body is more likely to have physical problems than Xue Jiaping's.
After all, one of them is attacking and the other is receiving. If the attacking side is broken, they will not be able to continue the game. "
Xu Zheng nodded quickly and said casually: "I didn't expect you to be so knowledgeable in this area..."
"What nonsense are you talking about? I'll send you to the Pingshui Town Police Station."
Xu Zheng quickly admitted that he was short-tempered. Pingshui Town is located in the northernmost township of Liuhe District. It is considered to be a vast area and sparsely populated in Changming. This is mainly because the local people responded to the call and moved to the urban area or several districts in the south of the Yangtze River, so the population is relatively small. few.
Correspondingly, the staffing of the Pingshui Police Station has also been reduced, and there are fewer cases. In short, the Pingshui Police Station is considered to be at the bottom of the city's police stations. marriage
Xu Zheng really didn't dare to go to this place, so after begging for mercy, he immediately turned the topic to the case, "Nowadays, medical files are all connected to the Internet. I didn't find any medical records of Du Longtao's fertility treatment. Could it be that he only went to small clinics for this disease? Or is it a foreign province or a magical city?"
"Suppose..." Wan Haihong had been thinking about it. At this time, he suddenly thought of a possibility, "Suppose that Du Longtao was suddenly injured and broken when he had a relationship with the woman who was one of the missing persons in Wumei. Then... Doesn’t it explain the reason why he can’t have children?”
Xu Zheng's eyes widened in shock at his idea, "Your idea is really unique, but it is very possible. I remember a case in Shendu. A woman was forced to refuse to cooperate. As a result, the man broke her body. Then the local judge punished her. He was also sentenced.”
Wan Haihong nodded, "This can explain that only if Du Longtao is inhumane, Bai Shuting will marry Yan Hongqiang, and Yan Hongqiang will not care about his current wife's close relationship with Du Longtao."
Xu Zheng was a little confused, "If this happened at that time, they should have sent Du Longtao to the hospital. In this case, people in their club would know about it, and the anti-hijacking brigade would also investigate."
Wan Haihong shook his head, "Generally, such societies and group companies have their own private operating rooms with professional surgeons who can handle ordinary surgeries.
Of course, some doctors will also perform sophisticated surgeries on them for money, such as replanting severed fingers, such as organ transplants..." Marriage
