Masako doesn't have a private car.
So, of course, he got into Zhou Sen's car.
"Eastern Suburb Brick Factory."
Zhou Sen gave the order, and Wu En understood instantly and immediately started the car and headed towards the eastern suburbs, driving through the streets.
"Where is Miss Masako from?" Zhou Sen first broke Chen Mo in the car.
"I'm from Kyoto." Masako nodded slightly.
"I have never been to Kyoto. I must go and see it if I have the chance. Then, can Ms. Masako be my guide?"
"certainly."
"Officer Zhou is being reused at such a young age. He really has a bright future."
"You're welcome, Miss Masako. I just did what I could, and I can't say I have a bright future..."
The two of them were chatting without saying a word in the car, and it felt like an awkward conversation. In the end, Zhou Sen couldn't find anything to talk about, so he had to roll down the window to let in the wind from outside.
"Is Officer Zhou married?"
"Huh?" Zhou Sen didn't expect Masako to ask him such a personal question out of the blue. After all, they had just met and the other party was still a young woman.
"If it's not convenient to answer, forget it." Masako's cheeks turned slightly red and she lowered her head.
"Oh, it's nothing inconvenient." Zhou Sen chuckled, "I'm married, and my wife just gave birth to a pair of twins, who are full moon on the sixth day of this month."
"Really? Congratulations to Officer Zhou." Masako raised his head in surprise, a trace of disappointment flashing in his eyes.
"Thank you." Zhou Sen did not invite Masako.
The brickyard has arrived.
Because I had called the person in charge in advance, the person in charge had already sent someone waiting at the door. A Japanese man with a stature like a short winter melon and short legs ran over, resembling a pig.
"Miss Masako, if you have anything to do, just give me your instructions and come here in person." The other person obviously knew Masako, which was called flattery.
"Officer Zhou, let me introduce you. This is Factory Director Yoshikawa." Masako introduced the short, fat, middle-aged Japanese man to Zhou Sendao.
Zhou Sen stepped forward and bowed slightly. He had been to the brick factory several times and had never seen this Yoshikawa. It was obvious that people looked down on him at all and were unwilling to show his face.
The Japanese have long been accustomed to this kind of virtue.
"Hello, Manager Yoshikawa, I am Zhou Sen, from the Special Branch of the Ice City Police Department." Zhou Sen also introduced his identity politely.
"Officer Zhou, hello." Yoshikawa responded with an indifferent expression. However, when he turned around to face Masako, he was smiling again, using his face-changing skills to a natural level.
"Miss Masako, please, I have prepared good tea for you..."
The office in the brick factory is small and poorly furnished. Yoshikawa probably doesn't come here very often, but it was cleaned before they came, and traces of water dragging can be seen on the ground.
"Ms. Masako, the place is shabby, so you are neglecting me." Yoshikawa asked Masako to sit down enthusiastically, but chose to turn a blind eye to Zhou Sen.
It was obvious that he didn't take Zhou Sen seriously at all. Fortunately, he found someone from the extra-high school class. Otherwise, if Zhou Sen came here by himself, not only would no one be able to see him, but he might not even be allowed in.
Masako also noticed it, and when she sat down, she also took Zhou Sen along to save both parties the embarrassment.
There was nothing to talk about. Masako and Zhou Sen went straight to the topic and stated their purpose. They also gave Yoshikawa the sketch profile of the person he saw described by Hong Lianghui and asked him to identify whether this person was in the brick factory. work.
Although Yoshikawa is the manager, he doesn't know anyone in the factory. At most, he only knows a few team leaders.
Called the shift leader over.
"This, this looks a bit like that boy Huang Xiyuan." One of the squad leaders came closer, looked at the sketched portrait carefully, thought about it, and stammered.
"Huang Xiyuan, where is he?"
"He, he's been on sick leave for several days..." The shift leader was so frightened that he stuttered even more nervously.
"When did you ask for sick leave?"
"Three days ago, he suddenly fainted while working. He must have suffered from heatstroke. Then he asked me for leave, saying that he would go home for two days and wait until he recovered before returning to work," the supervisor explained.
"Do you know where he lives? Can you take me there?" Zhou Sen asked eagerly.
"I know, I know, I've been there twice..."
"Miss Masako, I want to go to Huang Xiyuan's house first, so I'll trouble you." Zhou Sen asked Masako.
"Okay, Officer Zhou, go ahead and I'll help you complete the following investigation." Masako nodded.
Zhou Sen immediately drove the team leader to the home of the team leader named Huang Xiyuan.
This Huang Xiyuan lives not far away. His family is from a village near the brick factory. He used to make bricks. Otherwise, he would not have come to work in the brick factory and became a team leader.
In the car, Zhou Sen also asked the team leader about Huang Xiyuan. Huang Xiyuan is usually taciturn, but he has a good temper and good skills, so everyone recommended him to be the team leader. He also has the highest yield rate in blank making. , so everyone on duty likes him. After all, the brick factory needs this kind of person.
The car drove down a dirt road, which was a little bumpy, but it soon arrived at the door of Huang Xiyuan's house.
"Huang Xiyuan, Brother Xiyuan..." The class leader got out of the car, opened his mouth and shouted loudly into the yard.
I shouted several times, but there was no movement inside.
"Is he the only one in his family?" Zhou Sen asked strangely.
"He has a wife, a son, and a family of three." The monitor shook his head and replied.
"Will you go to work in the fields?"
"At this point, it shouldn't be possible. Besides, there is not much farm work in the fields at the moment, and Huang Xiyuan has suffered from heatstroke, so he can't go to the fields..."
"Let's go in and take a look." Zhou Sen ordered. Without any premonition, he felt that the situation was not good. Huang Xiyuan was probably getting the news and ran away.
The courtyard door was unlocked and opened with a push. Zhou Sen, Wu En, and the squad leader entered the courtyard directly.
Huang Xiyuan works in a brick factory, but his home is still an adobe house with a thatched roof, but it doesn't look like it has been in disrepair. The yard is also kept clean. It seems that he is also a hard-working person at home.
After entering the house, there is the main hall, the bedroom on the left, and the kitchen on the right. The water in the tank is full, but the stove is cold.
Lifting the lid of the pot, I found a trace of rust on the bottom of the pot.
It had been at least three days since the stove had been touched.
Whose house doesn't use the stove for three days? It's obvious that this house hasn't been occupied for at least three days. There's basically no need to look at the bedroom, and all the soft clothes and other items are probably gone.
Sure enough, when Zhou Sen checked the bedroom again, although it was very clean, the clothes were not there.
It was obvious that the family had long since left the house empty.
"This, this, what is going on..." This situation shocked the class leader who came here with Zhou Sen and was stunned, not knowing what to say.
"Do you know anyone around here, or are there other workers in the village of Brick Factory?" Zhou Sen asked.
"There are a few of them, all from this village, but they are all in the class." said the class leader.
"First ask the neighbor next door to see when he left." Zhou Sen nodded and immediately gave an order.
You must first find out when the family left. Also, if his family left, there should be relatives in the village. It is impossible for him to move away all his social connections.
Now it can basically be concluded that Huang Xiyuan is the person they are looking for. Otherwise, why would all the members of the family suddenly disappear?
After knocking on several houses near Huang's house, Zhou Sen asked some questions as a worker. Most of them said that they had seen Huang Xiyuan three days ago and not seen him again since then.
Obviously, Huang Xiyuan came back from taking leave from the brick factory three days ago, and then packed his luggage that night. In the dead of night, he took his wife and children and left.
Right now
In summer, when they go out at night, they don't have to worry about the temperature being too cold, and besides, they go out at night.
The neighbors were all sleeping, so no one knew.
Moreover, although Huang Xiyuan has lived in this village for many years, he was not from this village at the beginning, and there are no relatives in the village. Everyone is not very clear about the origins of their family of three.
Anyway, when I first came here, the accent didn't sound like a local one. Later, as I lived there for a longer time, the accent gradually became almost like the local one.
If you've been with him for a long time, you really won't be able to hear this.
"Huang Xiyuan's brick-making skills are so good, but he didn't have any apprentices in the brick factory?" Zhou Sen asked the team leader on the way back in the car.
"I brought two apprentices with me. One of the apprentices sent him back when he was on leave due to heatstroke that day," the monitor said.
"Let's go back and take me to meet this apprentice."
"Hey." The class leader was very nervous. No matter how stupid he was, he could see that Huang Xiyuan was in trouble. He secretly ran away with his wife and children, but he didn't dare to ask more about what happened. It is obviously not a trivial matter for the Japanese to ask.
What I'm most afraid of is, don't get yourself involved in this matter.
Back at the brick factory, the team leader immediately took Zhou Sen to see the apprentice named Xiao Ding. He had been with Huang Xiyuan for quite a while, more than half a year.
A young man with dark skin and a somewhat honest appearance was a little nervous when he saw Zhou Sen.
"Don't be nervous. We are just going to ask you about your master Huang Xiyuan. Just tell me the truth." Zhou Sen said.
Although he couldn't tell what Huang Xiyuan's identity was, he should have a deep relationship with the "military commander".
Maybe it was arranged for him to work in the brick factory from the beginning. After all, the brick factory has a group of thought prisoners who came from the correctional institution for punishment and labor. Only people in the brick factory have the opportunity to come into contact with them.
But these captured people are basically worthless, unless they are burying secret chess. It would be understandable if they were Bai Yulan's "Ice Sword" team, but do they have such long-term awareness at the Juntong's Ice City Station?
Zhou Sen doesn't dare to underestimate the heroes of the world. Anyone who can send an undercover agent to lurk in the enemy's lair must be a person with extraordinary courage. If he is a idiot and a coward, it doesn't matter if something happens to him. I'm afraid it will also affect the entire organization. .
"How long have you been learning to make bricks from your master Huang Xiyuan?"
"It's been more than half a year. I started learning from him at the beginning of the year, and I have been working with him since then," Xiao Ding said.
"What are your master's usual preferences? For example, what does he like to eat, what kind of cigarettes he likes to smoke, what color clothes does he like to wear?"
"My master likes to eat pig head meat. He doesn't like to smoke cigarettes. He buys tobacco leaves and rolls his own cigarettes. In the brick factory, we usually work barefoot and wear burlap jackets, which are strong and durable. ..."
"Yeah." Zhou Sen nodded. He did see a bundle of uncut tobacco leaves at Huang Xiyuan's home, as well as a set of homemade cigarette rolling tools. There are many cigarette factories in Bingcheng, and many people have experience working in cigarette factories. , Cigarette rolling is not a multi-skilled job, but for ordinary people, rolling their own cigarettes and smoking them is much cheaper than buying cigarettes.
Of course, rolling your own cigarettes depends on your personal preferences. Some people like to add other ingredients to them.
"When you sent your master back that day, what was going on at his home?" Zhou Sen asked.
"It's nothing, but my wife was shocked. She quickly asked Master to lie down on the bed and rest, and then made Master some soup to relieve the heat."
"How is your master's health? Does he usually suffer from heatstroke?" Zhou Sen asked.
"My master is in good health. If he suffers from heatstroke, which often happens in brick factories, he will be fine after taking a rest. When I sent my master back, he was just a little dizzy, but the rest was fine," Xiao Ding said.
"Does your master usually have anything in the brick factory?
Some weird behavior, or in other words, making excuses to drive you away? "
"It seems not..." Xiao Ding thought about it carefully and shook his head.
"Okay, thank you for your cooperation." After Zhou Sen asked, he sent someone to go directly. Then he asked the shift leader to find a worker who was familiar with Huang Xiyuan and asked him about the situation. The questions were all similar, and he went to Huang Xiyuan for lunch again. And looked at the resting place.
There are no valuable clues.
At this time, Masako's communication with Yoshikawa also ended. Masako mainly wanted to know about the workers in the brick factory.
The problem lies in the brick factory. Someone infiltrated into the brick factory and had secret contact with the thought prisoners in the correctional institution.
There is obviously a problem with the management of the brick factory. How can the brick factory say that it has no responsibility at all when something like this happens?
Yoshikawa, the factory director, is the first person responsible, and he is obviously responsible. Zhou Sen can't control it, but the special high school can.
When Yoshikawa saw Zhou Sen again, he no longer looked as arrogant as before. It was obvious that he had been trained hard by Masako.
Of course, he would probably put the hatred on his head, because if he didn't find out the reason why Wen Lin committed suicide, maybe all this would have nothing to do with him.
"The man ran away. Now we can only issue a wanted order. It will probably be difficult to catch him." Zhou Sen told Masako.
"If you had come earlier..."
"Ms. Masako, do you think I would have experienced meeting Yoshikawa without you coming here with me?"
Zhou Sen asked rhetorically.
Masako nodded with deep approval.
She is not a fool. Yoshikawa's attitude towards Zhou Sen was obvious from the beginning. He would never let Zhou Sen enter the brick factory to investigate.
In fact, they were only two days late, and that Huang Xiyuan secretly escaped three days ago.
This shows that people have already gotten the message, or have been preparing to start the scam for a long time. They just need to find a reasonable excuse to hide it for so many days without anyone noticing.
