Jiang Mingzhu's heartbeat was getting faster and faster, and all the information converged into a torrent in her mind, breaking down the dam.
"Sister, sister, why don't you speak?" One child noticed Jiang Mingzhu's silence.
Jiang Mingzhu raised her head with a smile: "My castle is almost ready."
She distracted the children's attention with just one word, and the children who were chattering just now went back to building sand castles.
Jiang Mingzhu sent a WeChat message to Zhou Li, said goodbye to the children, and walked alone to the door of the food stall where she ate last night and sat down.
A few minutes later, Zhou Li came back.
As he approached, he noticed Jiang Mingzhu's solemn look. Zhou Li sat down next to her: "What's wrong?"
Jiang Mingzhu: "Did you gain anything just now?"
Zhou Li: "I found the parking place of the bus. Dean Liu never got off after getting on the bus."
Jiang Mingzhu: "I just asked for some news."
She lowered her voice much lower, lowered her head and approached Zhou Li and repeated to him what the children had just said.
Zhou Li leaned closer to her and listened attentively, his expression getting colder and colder.
Jiang Mingzhu: "Our thinking may be wrong."
"If she really transported children from the orphanage as experimental specimens, the official list of the orphanage and the data on it cannot be falsified - also, healthy children will resist when they find something is wrong."
Zhou Li: "You suspect they are using disabled children."
Jiang Mingzhu: "There are always people who will send such children to the orphanage. The person who sends them will not pay a return visit. Whether the child can stay depends on the arrangements of the orphanage."
Zhou Li looked solemn and said nothing.
Jiang Mingzhu: "Have you checked Dean Liu's account?"
Zhou Li: "Checked."
Judging from Zhou Li's reaction, he knew that there was no clue.
He paused and then added: "The accounts of his son, his wife and his parents have all been checked."
Jiang Mingzhu: "There's nothing wrong with that?"
Zhou Li: "Yeah."
Jiang Mingzhu fell into silence, and her thoughts were stuck here again.
While she was thinking, Zhou Li's cell phone rang briefly.
It's the sound of a text message.
Jiang Mingzhu saw Zhou Li pick up the phone out of the corner of her eye, and then his pupils tightened.
Jiang Mingzhu turned her head and looked at him.
Zhou Li took her hand and said, "Go back and talk."
——
Jiang Mingzhu and Zhou Li returned to the courtyard and went directly to her room.
Zhou Li locked the door when he entered, and the two sat down in front of the sofa.
Zhou Li looked at the phone intently, tapping quickly on the screen with his slender fingers.
A minute later, Zhou Li put the phone on his lap and motioned to Jiang Mingzhu to take a look.
Jiang Mingzhu leaned forward and saw a personal information on the screen.
The name column reads "Liu Fang", and his native address is Southern Yunnan City.
Jiang Mingzhu: "She is a relative of Dean Liu?"
Zhou Li: "Cousin."
"Besides that, she also has an identity."
Jiang Mingzhu's eyes suddenly became sharper: "It has something to do with that empty shell food factory, right?"
Zhou Li: "Liu Fang is the legal person and registrant of the food factory."
Jiang Mingzhu: "Did you and Boss Zheng's people only guard the ports in southern Yunnan?"
Zhou Li: "There are also several surrounding cities."
Jiang Mingzhu: "There is no Beicheng."
Zhou Li: "Yes."
Jiang Mingzhu took out a gel pen and notebook from the bag next to her, and bent down to write and draw on the paper.
Zhou Li lowered her head and saw that she had written the names of three people on the paper, followed by the information she already had.
Every stroke she makes is logical and methodical.
Jiang Mingzhu took almost fifteen minutes to complete this picture
clue map.
Then she handed the notebook to Zhou Li and said, "I wrote a little sloppily, so you can make do with it."
Zhou Li: "I saw it when you wrote it just now."
Jiang Mingzhu: "So you agree with my conjecture?"
Zhou Li: "Yes."
Jiang Mingzhu: "If my guess is correct, they will find another bus to come here today - by the way, have you written down the license plate number?"
Zhou Li: "Forgot it."
"Do you doubt they will change the license plate?" he asked.
Jiang Mingzhu: "The buses all look the same. Who would recognize them after changing their license plates?"
Zhou Li: "It doesn't make sense logically, unless it's——"
Zhou Li picked up Jiang Mingzhu's notebook and looked at the handwriting on it, his eyebrows suddenly jumped: "You mean-"
Jiang Mingzhu: "Let's wait and see. If they want to take action, it should be tonight."
The news I had heard before was that the children would only stay here for one night. They must have calculated the time well.
There is not much surveillance coverage in the fishing village, and there is no surveillance in the parking area where the bus is located.
"If an identical bus comes at night and changes the license plate, it means my guess is right." Jiang Mingzhu said, "Those children are in the bus in the parking lot, waiting for the bus to be changed at night. The license plate was then sent out."
In this way, the special bus for the spring outing has the same license plate as before, and the children cannot tell the difference.
Zhou Li remained silent after listening to Jiang Mingzhu's words. A pair of dark eyes stared at her face with complicated expressions.
Jiang Mingzhu: "Don't you understand what I mean?"
Zhou Li shook his head.
Jiang Mingzhu subconsciously thought that he didn't understand. When she was about to explain, Zhou Li suddenly said, "You are very smart."
Jiang Mingzhu: "..."
This must be the first time she heard Zhou Li praise her. She had heard many compliments, but it was quite rare for him to say them.
Zhou Li: "If that's what you guessed, there will be someone in Beicheng to help them."
After a short silence, Zhou Li returned to business.
Jiang Mingzhu: "I asked Boss Zheng——"
"No, I'll notify the police." Zhou Li interrupted Jiang Mingzhu: "They have set up a task force. If there are clues for them, they will take action."
Jiang Mingzhu: "I understand what you mean, but we don't have proof of their experiments yet..."
Halfway through her words, Jiang Mingzhu suddenly stopped. She suddenly raised her eyes and looked at Zhou Li: "That factory is their experimental base?"
Zhou Li: "Eighty percent possibility."
Jiang Mingzhu was stunned for a few seconds and then suddenly realized - no wonder Zheng Linxu and Zhou Yi combined had not found evidence in the United States before.
All of them thought that Zhan Yubai and Su Min would definitely get the person abroad first and then take action.
All the people following were concentrated in the ports of southern Yunnan and several surrounding cities, and no one paid attention to Beicheng.
Jiang Mingzhu took a deep breath and stared into Zhou Li's eyes: "When did you think of it?"
Zhou Li: "Last night."
Jiang Mingzhu: "Then did you also think about the license plate——"
"This is not the case." Zhou Li said, "If your guess is correct, there will be results soon."
Jiang Mingzhu's heart rate increased. She clenched her fingers and sweat oozed from her palms.
"I'll go to the parking lot with you tonight." Her tone was unequivocal.
Zhou Li moved his lips, and as if Jiang Mingzhu had predicted it, she tore off the toast and stuffed it into his mouth.
"No need to discuss, I must go."
