At this point, it was late in the conversation that I remembered that I didn’t seem to see any surveillance police officers along the way.
Li Dongliao had previously sent a policeman here to guard suspicious people near the Chaohe River, but the surroundings were very quiet. The two of them talked with Grandma Liu here for so long, but they never saw anyone.
"Who is the policeman watching this area?" Tan Wan asked Li Dongliao.
"The new trainee police officer Xiao He." Without Tan Wan asking directly, Li Dongliao noticed something strange, and then took out his mobile phone and dialed the number, "I'll call her."
The phone beeped - beeped - beeped for a long time, and finally switched to manual message mode.
No one answered.
The loss of contact with police officers is a big deal, especially in this special period.
Fortunately, before the mission, Xiao He was carrying a satellite phone equipped by the bureau. As long as the phone was still with him, he could locate her location.
In order to ensure Xiao He's safety, Tan Wan decided to go to those two places by himself, and asked Li Dongliao to go back to the police station first to investigate the location of the satellite phone, and then come to him after finding the person.
Li Dongliao left the car keys with Tan Wan and hurried back to the police station.
Inside Dasheng Nightclub.
It's not yet the afternoon business hours, so Dasheng Nightclub is deserted.
Several uniformed staff were arranging the venue and preparing for the upcoming opening of the nightclub.
Seeing a customer coming in, one of the staff members came forward and said, "Sorry, Miss, we won't open for business for another hour. You can sit next to us for a while."
Tan Wan looked around and took out his police card from his pocket: "The police are investigating the case. I want to see your manager."
The staff led the evening conversation into a private room, and not long after, a man in a suit who claimed to be the manager came in.
The manager, who was about 1.8 meters tall, opened the door and came in, holding a small black suitcase in his hand: "Hello, I'm the manager here. What's the matter?"
From the second he walked in, he kept looking at Tan Wan cautiously with a look that made him feel uncomfortable.
If the manager's look at the beginning could be called cautious, then Tan Wan showed his police ID card again according to the regulations. When he saw that it was indeed a police officer ID card, he immediately nodded and bowed, with a flattering look on his face.
Before he could say a few nice words, he heard Tan Wan say coldly: "Some people have reported that your association is involved in pornography, and the female employees working in your office are doing sex business."
Upon hearing this, the smile on the manager's face froze slightly, and the corners of his mouth twitched.
Without waiting for Tan Wan to finish speaking, he immediately denied it: "This, this, this, Miss Police, these are all misunderstandings, misunderstandings~ Our club is a serious business, how could we do something that violates the law~"
It's not clear to Tan Wan about the real thing, because that's not all why she came here this time.
It was just a casual lie, but the manager directly claimed that it was a misunderstanding without asking about the situation. It seemed that he knew that the female staff in the club was involved in pornography, and it seemed that he was not unjustly accused.
There must be something hidden in this.
Before Tan Wan could say anything else, the manager skillfully placed the luggage aside on the table of the private room.
The door to the private room was closed, there was no one around, and it was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.
The metal buckle of the suitcase was opened, and it was filled with banknotes.
Tan Wan took out a stack and looked through it. There were 100 sets of serial-numbered banknotes. There were ten sets of serial-numbered banknotes in the box, which was about 100,000 yuan.
The manager smiled and closed the bag again, pushed it in front of Tan Wan, and said: "The officers in the police station have worked hard for these small talk. It's getting cold today. The police lady should buy you an afternoon tea for me." .”
He said it nicely, but he wanted her to take the money as hush money. His posture and movements looked very skillful, and he looked like he was a repeat offender.
There is definitely something fishy in this Dasheng nightclub.
In order not to alert others, Tan Wan decided to accept the bribe according to the manager's wishes and report it after returning to the police station.
"Ahem, you're interested." He pretended to accept it and added, "There is one more thing I want to ask you this time. It's about your club employee Zhao Xiaohui."
"Zhao Xiaohui?" The manager felt that this name was so unfamiliar. There were so many employees under him, and he couldn't remember which one it was for a while.
After Tan Wan took out Zhao Xiaohui's electronic ID photo, the manager was somewhat impressed: "Oh, her!"
"Do you have an impression of her?"
"This woman likes to talk back to me at work. Originally, I was going to fire her as her probation period was coming up in the past few days. Unexpectedly, this woman started disappearing again. She was absent from work for several days and could not be found."
Speaking of Zhao Xiaohui, the manager had endless flaws, and it was obvious that he had a strong opinion of her.
"She is dead." Tan Wan placed the photo of the body taken at the scene of the incident in Reed Bank in front of the manager. "She was found dead in the lower reaches of the Chaohe River yesterday."
"What, you said she's dead...dead?"
The manager was caught off guard by what he was told. When he saw those photos, his hair stood up almost instantly.
Even in the photo, Zhao Xiaohui's death was too horrific, and even a man like the manager did not dare to look at it.
"Well, I really don't know about this." The manager quickly clarified the relationship, "I only saw her the day before yesterday, and then I never saw her again."
Tanwan asked the manager to recall the last time he saw Zhao Xiaohui.
The manager said that when he got off work the day before yesterday, he met Zhao Xiaohui who was clocking in. Because Zhao Xiaohui's work attitude some time ago was not very satisfactory to him, he scolded her a few times.
Unexpectedly, Zhao Xiaohui proudly said that she would soon achieve financial freedom and choked him back.
Zhao Xiaohui was supposed to go to work the next day, but after waiting all day, she didn't see anyone and didn't answer the phone.
Tan Wan listened to the manager's description and partially agreed with Grandma Liu's words.
Grandma Liu said that she saw Zhao Xiaohui at about 4 o'clock last night and saw her entering the homeless man's home. However, the manager said that Zhao Xiaohui did not come to work all day yesterday.
So where did Zhao Xiaohui go during the whole day yesterday...
Outside the nightclub, Zhou Kai's sports car stopped at the door of the nightclub.
Seeing Boss Zhou's car, two staff members immediately came forward to greet him: "Mr. Zhou is here!"
Zhou Kai, the owner of Dasheng Nightclub, is a rich second-generation prodigal son with a well-known reputation in City A.
A few years ago, I opened a foot-washing city and an art gallery, but they both closed down due to poor management. In the past two years, I bought a piece of land and built a building to open a nightclub. I also paid a master 5 million to calculate Feng Shui.
The master made some calculations and said that the reason for the closure of his previous places was ultimately due to the lack of good signboard names.
The master also said that naming a building is the same as naming a person. The more down-to-earth the building, the easier it is to last. This is the same as naming children Goudan and Erya in rural areas.
Finally, there was Dasheng, a name that sounded like Sun Wukong.
Zhou Kai got out of the car and took off his sunglasses: "I heard the police are coming? Is there anything going on at the club?"
The two staff members didn't know. They only said that a police lady came. Not long after she arrived, Manager Wang was now greeting her.
Without saying a word, Zhou Kai threw his sunglasses on the staff next to him: "Take me there."
