Chapter 1932
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"Don't move, raise your hands up." The little boy wearing a hood, holding a water gun, aimed at the old clock in a dignified manner.
Lao Zhong immediately grinned, and raised his hands high in cooperation.
However, even so, Lao Zhong couldn't avoid the result of being "shot", his chest was immediately squirted with a water gun by the little boy, and his shirt was soaked.
Old Zhong suddenly said in a bad mood: "Junjun, grandpa has already surrendered, how can you still shoot? This does not conform to the rules of the game."
"I don't care, I'm going to shoot." The little boy named Junjun, who cares about your rules and irregularities? Immediately, he frantically sips water on the old clock again.
"Little friend." Officer Wang grabbed the muzzle of the gun, immediately took off the little boy Junjun's hood, and asked him with a serious face, "Where did you get this hood?"
The little boy seemed to be taken aback by Police Officer Wang, and quickly ran behind Boss Zhong, lifted Boss Zhong's shirt, and stuck his head in.
Boss Zhong said "Aiyou" and quickly pulled the little boy out: "Junjun, what the hell are you doing?"
Junjun seemed a little afraid of Police Officer Wang, still holding Lao Zhong's thigh, sticking out half of his head, observing secretly.
"Is this your grandson?" Officer Wang asked while holding a hood.
"Yes, my grandson." Old Zhong said.
"Then what's going on with this headgear?" Officer Wang raised the headgear while speaking.
Old Zhong was taken aback, then smiled and said: "This? I don't know where he got this? It must have been picked up."
"Picked it up?" Lu Weiwei hurried to Officer Wang's side when she heard it, took the hood from Officer Wang's hand, and looked inside and out carefully.
After a while, Lu Weiwei whispered a little unsteadily: "It belongs to that group, and the style is basically the same."
"I know." Officer Wang also responded in a low voice.
Gu Chen and Yuan Shasha also came over, and they exchanged winks.
Lu Weiwei turned her head to come to Old Zhong, glanced at the little boy behind him, and said, "Junjun, don't be afraid, my sister has a question to ask you, is that okay?"
The little boy looked like he was three or four years old, and after thinking for a few seconds, he nodded silently, but didn't speak.
Lu Weiwei held the black hood in her hand and asked, "Is this yours?"
"Yeah." The little boy nodded childishly.
"Then where did you get this thing?" Lu Weiwei asked again.
The little boy replied, "I picked it up."
"Little friend, where did you pick this thing up? Can you show us?" Gu Chen also walked up to the little boy and knelt down to communicate with him.
The little boy was stunned, and couldn't help but look up at the old clock.
Lao Zhong was also a little puzzled, feeling that this group of people, why are they so interested in a black hood? Then he asked curiously, "What do you want this for?"
"Oh, that's right." Seeing this, Bai Xiaolan hurried over and explained, "Because Gu Chen and the others are policemen, they were investigating a case and arrested some people, so they wore this thing."
"So I saw you Sun Tzujun wearing this thing today, so I want to know more about it. Of course, don't get me wrong, they just want to confirm the source of this thing."
Bai Xiaolan was also earnest in all kinds of ways, and felt that Junjun's black hood really looked a little weird.
From the changes in the expressions of Gu Chen and the others just now, it is not difficult to see that they seem to be very important to Gu Chen and the others.
"Is that so?" After hearing Bai Xiaolan's statement, Lao Zhong was also quite puzzled, and said involuntarily:
"I really don't know about Junjun's headgear. Where did he get it?"
"Before, I thought it was the gang of speeders on motorcycles. Before they usually wear helmets, they would wear this black headgear made of card materials. I thought they lost it, and then it happened to be picked up by my army. arrive."
"For this reason, I was going to throw it away, but Junjun liked it very much, so I had no choice but to pick it up, wash it, and hand it to Junjun. Unexpectedly, he came here to play with a hood on today. "
"Is that so?" Hearing what Old Zhong said, Gu Chen glanced at Junjun behind him again, and asked him, "Junjun, is that so?"
"Yes." Junjun finally spoke, and he also voluntarily admitted.
"Then where did you meet? Can you take us there?" Gu Chen asked again.
"I just picked it up over there." Junjun hurriedly pointed out a location.
When everyone saw this, they all cast their gazes over.
Officer Wang hurriedly looked back at Old Zhong, and said, "Boss Zhong, do you think this is possible? Ask your family, Junjun, to take us there to have a look?"
"Of course." Although it felt a bit troublesome, Lao Zhong still took the initiative to agree because of face.
Afterwards, Lao Zhong brought Sun Tzu Junjun in front of him and reminded him, "Junjun, take these brothers and sisters to find the place where you picked up the black hood?"
"Okay." Junjun replied in a childish voice.
"Then let's go." Boss Zhong said.
Upon seeing this, Police Officer Wang also smiled embarrassedly and said, "How embarrassing, I will trouble you to take us there."
"Hey, where are you talking? I'm working with you. Besides, I'm fine now. My family lives in Wangchao Town. You can come to my house later."
"Then thank you very much, Boss Zhong." Liu Jingru also looked around, and hurriedly asked Boss Zhong, "Eh? Where's Teacher Wu?"
"Oh, Mr. Wu is still at the blueberry picking base, helping me make up the aerial photography. I'll ask him to come over later."
Several people chatted and laughed, and came to a complex of buildings in Wangchao Town.
At this moment, Boss Zhong pointed to a villa not far from the town and said, "That's my home, and you can go there by the path."
"My family Junjun, he picked it up near my house."
Hearing this, everyone suddenly became tense.
It seems that this mysterious person who is closely related to He Xu and Zhang Fan's criminal group is nearby.
Therefore, everyone is also more vigilant.
When he came to the door of Old Zhong's house, Boss Zhong said politely, "Come in and have a seat. My family members are probably still at the activity site in Wangchao Town."
"Boss Zhong's house is quite big." Liu Jingru looked around and said with a smile, "Living in this kind of place is really suitable for retirement."
"Isn't that right?" Boss Zhong said proudly when he heard Liu Jingru's remarks, "You didn't go to our old people's center in Wangchao Town. The construction there is better than here."
"Moreover, our Wangchao Town has a beautiful scenery. It is a natural tourist destination. Many tourists will come to us to live here for a long time in summer."
"That is to say, you usually accept foreign tourists to live here for a long time?" Gu Chen seemed to hear the problem from Lao Zhong's words.
In Gu Chen's previous impression, the mysterious person who was closely related to He Xu and Zhang Fan lived in Wangchao Town, and he was more like a local of Wangchao Town.
But now hearing what Lao Zhong said, Gu Chen felt that this mysterious person might not be a native of Wangchao Town, but just lived here for a long time.
Hearing what Gu Chen said, Lao Zhong also said truthfully: "That's right, there is a tourist reception center near our Wangchao Town, and there is a multifunctional hotel over there."
"There are almost all the supporting facilities inside. Usually, it mainly receives some foreign tourists, and also receives city inspection groups to come here for meetings and inspections."
"Anyway, the hotel in the reception center is very comfortable to live in, and the price is very affordable, so it often attracts foreign tourists to come here for vacation, especially in summer."
"Is the reception center far from here?" Gu Chen asked.
"It's not far, just go over to Boss Zhong's house, just go over there, go straight, see that flying red flag? It's there." After all, Liu Jingru came here, followed Wu Jun and Bai Xiaolan to drive around Wangchao Town casually. lock up.
Therefore, I am very familiar with some street layouts in Wangchao Town.
When Gu Chen asked, Liu Jingru was able to tell the direction very quickly.
When Old Zhong heard this, he smiled and said, "That's right, the place where the red flag is flying is the reception center of our Wangchao Town."
"Don't worry about that." Gu Chen knew the priority of the matter.
For now, the black hoods that everyone found from the little boy Junjun are indeed very similar to the hoods of the men in black that we met in Wangxian Valley that night.
Because everyone caught a fat old Chen among the group on Wangxian Valley Mountain. Judging from the style of the headgear seized from the fat old Chen, it was almost exactly the same as the one worn by the little boy.
That's why, when everyone saw the little boy wearing a black headgear playing with his grandfather, everyone could see the problem with the headgear at a glance, so they all raised their vigilance.
So Gu Chen said again: "Junjun, where exactly did you find the hood?"
"This way." Junjun is not afraid of Gu Chen and the others now, he immediately turned into a leader and led everyone to his backyard.
Not long after, Junjun pointed to a garbage recycling bin and said, "I picked it up here."
"What?"
"Trash dump?"
Seeing the direction Junjun was pointing at, everyone was stunned, feeling that this place seemed to be different from what everyone had imagined.
When Old Zhong heard this, he immediately looked at Junjun in disbelief, and asked, "Junjun, did you pick this thing up from the garbage dump?"
"En." The little boy Junjun nodded fiercely.
"But why didn't you say it earlier? You can't just pick up the things in this garbage dump, because there are bacteria."
"If I knew you picked it up from the garbage dump, I would definitely not have brought you home."
He was also very angry by his grandson, and Lao Zhong also looked helpless, feeling a little embarrassed.
Looking up at Gu Chen and the others, Old Zhong said again: "I'm sorry, comrade policeman, this Junjun of my family just said that he picked it up on the side of the road, and I didn't ask him where he picked it up. "
"If I knew it was in the garbage dump, I would never let him pick it up."
Speaking of this, Boss Zhong also said to himself: "Alas! This kid has been picking up things in the garbage dump since he was young, and he can't collect trash when he grows up."
Seeing the little boy Junjun, being blamed by his grandfather for not doing well, Lu Weiwei quickly squatted in front of Junjun, comforting the boy who wanted to cry:
"Junjun, it's okay, my sister asked you, did you really pick it up in this place? You didn't lie to my sister, did you?"
"No." Junjun replied in a childish voice.
"Then did you see who threw it here?" Lu Weiwei asked again.
Junjun nodded silently.
When Old Zhong saw it, his eyes lit up immediately, and he hurried up to his grandson, and asked scoldingly, "What? Did you see someone throw it here?"
"Yeah." The little boy Junjun replied in a childlike voice, "I saw him drop a bag of things here, and then I went over and saw this."
"I feel that this thing is very fun. Many bad guys on TV wear this thing, hold a gun, and then rush in all kinds of 'bang bang bang'."
In the end, the little boy Junjun did not forget to imitate the sound of shooting with his mouth.
Old Zhong was also speechless, and said: "Bad guy, these people on TV are all bad guys, how can you be a bad guy? If you want to be a good guy, you can't wear this thing, you know?"
He took two heavy breaths, and Lao Zhong was quite helpless, and said again: "Did you hear that?"
"Understood." The little boy Junjun seemed to feel the anger of his grandfather Zhong at this moment, and quickly became well-behaved in a second.
Gu Chen hurriedly asked: "Then you said just now, you saw the person throwing away the black hood, do you know who he is?"
"En." The little boy nodded silently, but after thinking about it, he quickly shook his head.
Lu Weiwei looked confused, and asked him curiously: "What does it mean to nod and shake your head? Do you know who that person is?"
"I……"
Just as the little boy Junjun wanted to speak, he subconsciously glanced at his grandfather Zhong, looked at everyone and shook his head and said, "I don't know him."
"Then can you describe the specific appearance of that person?" Liu Jingru said.
The little boy scratched the back of his head, then shook his head.
Liu Jingru was speechless: "Junjun, didn't you say it well just now? Didn't you say that you saw that person thrown in the trash, why did you suddenly say you didn't know?"
"I... I don't remember." The little boy Junjun seemed to have lost his memory for a short time.
This made the hope that everyone had just ignited instantly shattered.
Liu Jingru was speechless, she could only glance at Gu Chen and said, "Senior Gu Chen, this kid may have a bit of memory."
"It's okay." Regardless of these, Gu Chen squatted in front of Junjun again, and began to guide and said:
"Junjun, tell me, when did that man throw away the black hood?"
The little boy Junjun scratched the back of his head: "It seems to be night."
"Last night? Or the night before? Or which night?" Gu Chen asked again.
The little boy Junjun immediately glanced at his grandfather, like an old clock, and turned around and said, "The night before yesterday."
"Very good." Upon receiving the reply, Gu Chen touched Junjun's head and asked again: "The night before yesterday, what kind of clothes was that person wearing?"
"Hmm..." Junjun held back for a long time, then looked back at Grandpa Old Zhong again, pointed at his clothes and said, "Grandpa is like this."
Hearing his grandson's words, Lao Zhong frowned immediately, feeling like he was warning Junjun: "Junjun, have you seen it clearly? There are many people wearing clothes like Grandpa's, maybe you misread it."
"Boss Zhong." Seeing that Boss Zhong began to intervene in the conversation, Gu Chen hurriedly interrupted, "Please keep quiet, please?"
"Uh, this..." After thinking about it, his behavior was indeed inappropriate, so Lao Zhong also waved his hand: "Okay... okay, you guys continue."
"Junjun." Gu Chen turned Junjun around again, focused his eyes on himself, and then asked again: "That person is wearing the same clothes as your grandfather's, did you see clearly?"
"No." Junjun shook his head.
"Then how does he walk? Can you tell who it is from his walking habits?" Officer Wang asked him anxiously.
The little boy Junjun still shook his head: "I don't know."
"Hey boy." Officer Wang sighed, and said helplessly, "Then you know which direction he's going, right?"
"I know." Junjun nodded, and then quickly pointed to a path ahead.
And the end of this path is just in the direction of the hotel leading to the reception center of Wangchao Town.
"It really is there." Seeing that Junjun had already given the answer, Gu Chen hurriedly asked Junjun: "Junjun, if I show you the photo of that person, you can still recognize the person who threw away the black hood that night ?"
"Uh……"
Junjun seemed unsure, scratched the back of his head habitually, and then looked back at his grandfather, Old Zhong.
Old Zhong also said angrily: "Why do you always look at me? You always look at me as if that person is me?"
Lao Zhong was also told by Junjun's shirt of the same style just now, which made him quite embarrassed.
But Gu Chen hurriedly said comfortingly: "Boss Zhong, thank you very much for your cooperation, Sun Zijun. Maybe there will be troubles for you in the next work."
"Hey, what can I say? It's also my job to cooperate with you. If you need help, just say it. After all..."
Turning his head to look at Bai Xiaolan and Liu Jingru, Boss Zhong said again: "After all, you are friends of Xiaolan and Reporter Liu. I am already very grateful to them for helping me promote my blueberry planting base."
"As long as you need help in the future, you can directly find me in Wangchao Town, Zhong Fakui, remember."
"Yeah." Gu Chen nodded silently.
He had heard from Bai Xiaolan before that Lao Zhong had a lot of connections in Wangchao Town.
If you want to inquire about things in Wangchao Town, you can definitely go to Lao Zhong.
But now it seems that not only is it right to find Lao Zhong, but it is more reliable to find him, Sun Zijun.
If it weren't for this little boy wearing the same headgear worn by the Wangxiangu criminal gang, it would be difficult for everyone to have a direction for investigation.
But now it seems that the hotel in Wangchao Town Tourist Reception Center seems to be the breakthrough point for everyone.
After bidding farewell to Lao Zhong, Gu Chen asked Bai Xiaolan and Liu Jingru to return to the event site for the time being.
Gu Chen brought Lu Weiwei, Police Officer Wang and Yuan Shasha to the Tourist Reception Center.
It has to be said that the tourist reception center in Wangchao Town is a hotel structure as a whole, with blue tiles and white walls on the outside, and green lawns around the hotel.
The whole appearance looks very refreshing and simple.
Walking into the tourist reception center, a middle-aged woman was sitting there eating melon seeds.
Seeing four men and women walking towards her, the middle-aged woman immediately put down the melon seeds in her hand, stood up quickly and said, "Do you want to open a room?"
Gu Chen didn't answer the conversation, just looked at the surrounding environment, and then took out the people's police card from his pocket to reveal his identity.
"Oh, so it's comrade policeman, do you need any help from comrade policeman?"
"How many people are living here?" Gu Chen asked.
"More than 20." The middle-aged woman said.
"Are these 20 people living here for a long time? Or are they living here for a short time?" Lu Weiwei also hurriedly asked.
The middle-aged woman hesitated for a moment, and then began to try to remember.
After a while, the woman replied: "Generally speaking, most of them are short-term. Some have just arrived, and some have stayed for a day or two."
"But in terms of staying longer, there are quite a few."
"Can you call me the information of these few people?" Gu Chen said.
"Uh, this..." The middle-aged woman hesitated for a moment, but seeing that Gu Chen and the others were police officers, she reluctantly agreed:
"Okay, let me check for you, wait a moment."
After the voice fell, the woman began to operate the front desk computer a little strangely.
It didn't take long for the passenger's check-in information to appear on the screen.
Gu Chen and the others simply bypassed the front desk and came behind the middle-aged woman.
"This, this, and this, these three people, all lived for about 10 days."
"Two of them are about to arrive at noon today, and they have no request to continue to open the room. It is estimated that they will leave at noon today."
"As for the other one, he opened the room for three days, and maybe he will leave in three days."
"Did they open the room for such a long time at one time? Or did they open it day after day?" Police Officer Wang also asked in a pinch.
The middle-aged woman thought about it for a few seconds, and quickly said: "Basically the first two, that is, the tenants who will leave at noon today, they are all staying for one day and one day, they seem to be blueberry merchants."
"Because today is the fourth Blueberry Picking Festival in Wangchao Town, maybe they want to leave after participating in the Blueberry Picking Festival?"
"These two people are together, and they have a standard room. I met them this morning and asked if they want to extend the room?"
"They told me they might leave by noon."
"Where are you going?" Gu Chen asked.
"It seems to be Pengcheng, right? They are all tenants from Guangdong Province, and they all speak Cantonese, and Mandarin is not standard."
Gu Chen saw that Yuan Shasha was holding a body camera, recording the conversation just now.
Immediately, he took out his mobile phone and took a picture of the identity information of several tenants on the computer screen, and then asked the middle-aged woman:
"Then what about the other person? This person has been paying the room fee until three days after he checked in, right?"
"Yes, he's very talkative, and he looks rich. He's from Hubei Province. As soon as he came here, he made an appointment for three days." The middle-aged woman said.
"Then what is he doing?" Gu Chen asked again.
"Uh, it seems that he is also in business, right? But I also asked him, but he just smiled and didn't answer. I can't ask more questions, but I feel that the business is okay."
"What about others? Are they still in the room?" Yuan Shasha asked.
The middle-aged woman shook her head: "I'm not sure, maybe it's there, maybe it's not."
"Do you have the room card? Take us up there to have a look." Lu Weiwei was already very excited when she heard this.
This person seems to be very suitable for the mysterious person in Famous Nest Town that He Xu and Zhang Fan mentioned.
This person came to Wangchao Town, it seems that he came to do business.
And opening a room for more than ten days at a time is definitely not that simple.
But now the situation is urgent, and everyone needs to make a surprise attack to see if they can gain anything.
So Lu Weiwei asked the woman at the front desk to take everyone to the customer's room.
The middle-aged woman had no choice but to take out the room card from the drawer, and then led everyone up to the second floor.
At the corner of a corridor on the second floor, the middle-aged woman pointed to the side and said, "208, he lives here, I don't know if he's here or not."
"Knock on the door." Officer Wang urged.
"Tuk-tuk-tuk!" The middle-aged woman didn't talk nonsense, and knocked on the door three times: "Excuse me, is anyone there?"
Seeing no one answered, the middle-aged woman politely knocked on the door three times again, but there was still no movement at the scene.
This convinced everyone that the tenant was not here.
"Open the door." Officer Wang said impatiently.
The middle-aged woman did not hesitate, and directly used the room card to swipe the door.
As a burst of music sounded, the lock suddenly "clicked" and bounced open.
Officer Wang was the first to open the door and go in, and came to the direction of the bedroom.
Gu Chen, Lu Weiwei and Yuan Shasha followed closely behind.
Police officer Wang opened the curtains, and the scene was suddenly bright.
Everyone saw a suitcase in the corner of the room, which didn't seem to be locked.
Lu Weiwei didn't care too much, opened the suitcase and checked the various items in the suitcase.
However, there seemed to be no other suspicious objects in the suitcase except clothes.
After that, everyone started to conduct a carpet-like investigation of the entire room.
After a quick search of about 5 minutes, no one found anything unusual.
"Strange, isn't it him?" Lu Weiwei crossed her arms, a little puzzled.
Gu Chen reminded, "Just call and ask him to come over by himself, and let's ask him in person what's going on?"
"It's fine." It felt like this was the only way to go at the moment, so Lu Weiwei looked at the middle-aged woman who was standing at the door and said, "Call him, please, and ask him to come here immediately."
"Okay." The middle-aged woman nodded silently, intending to turn around and leave.
"Why are you going?" Officer Wang called her to stop.
"Call...Call, I don't know what his phone number is?" the middle-aged woman said.
Gu Chen felt a little helpless, so he could only show the picture of the computer information form he had just taken in front of her and said, "The phone is here, call now."
"Okay, please wait a moment." The middle-aged woman took out her mobile phone, and began to call the tenant based on Gu Chen's picture reference.
However, the phone rang over and over again, but there was no response.
After the third call was naturally hung up, the middle-aged woman felt a little helpless, looked up at Gu Chen and said, "Comrade police, this is the third call, no one answered?"
"When did he go out?" Gu Chen looked up anxiously and asked her.
"I... I don't know either." The middle-aged woman smiled wryly, and quickly explained:
"I'm just a small front desk, and I also take care of some cleaning work here."
"Our tourist reception center in Wangchao Town, this hotel is not large, and there are not many tenants staying in it, so I don't often stay at the front desk."
"As for when these people come in and out of the hotel? I don't care, and I don't want to."
"Is there surveillance?" Yuan Shasha raised her head and asked her after walking back and forth twice, "Should we be able to find the surveillance in the hotel?"
"Uh, monitoring? There is." The middle-aged woman doesn't seem to be good at this, but at least there is monitoring.
So everyone closed the door and followed the middle-aged woman again to the front desk on the first floor.
Afterwards, the middle-aged woman began to operate the mouse unfamiliarly, calling up the monitoring screen of the day.
Seeing the clumsy movements of the middle-aged woman, Lu Weiwei obviously didn't understand these things.
But for Lu Weiwei, because she often goes to the hotel to check the room and retrieve the monitoring, she has some experience in how to operate the hotel's monitoring system.
So after taking the middle-aged woman's mouse, Lu Weiwei quickly checked the hotel entry and exit situation that morning.
Police officer Wang asked the middle-aged woman to stand aside and was responsible for identifying the tenants in the surveillance.
Just when Lu Weiwei operated the mouse and called up one of the monitoring sections, the middle-aged woman suddenly stopped: "Listen."
"Tick!" Lu Weiwei obeyed, clicked pause, and asked, "Did you find it?"
"It's him, it's him." The middle-aged woman pointed to the computer screen and confirmed:
"This person is the tenant of 208, and he is also the tenant who has stayed in our hotel for the longest time."
Lu Weiwei clicked the mouse to enlarge the screen.
Immediately, a rather awkward cheek appeared on the screen.
Without further ado, Lu Weiwei took out her phone and took a picture.
Gu Chen glanced at the monitoring time and said, "You left the hotel at 7:00 am? What is this guy doing out so early?"
"I don't know." The middle-aged woman shook her head, but suddenly remembered something? So he hastened to say:
"Oh, by the way, he seems to often go out early in the morning, and I have been on night shift a few times, sleeping here at the front desk of the hotel."
"A few times, I saw him go out early in the morning and not come back until night. He seemed quite mysterious."
"If this person returns to the hotel, remember to notify us as soon as possible." As soon as the voice fell, Police Officer Wang directly wrote down his phone number on a post-it note and marked it as "Wang".
In the end, he tore off the sticky note, handed it to the middle-aged woman and said, "If you find this person coming back, remember to call us as soon as possible."
"This is my phone number, and remember to ask him to stay in the hotel and stop wandering around, waiting for our investigation."
"Oh, I see." Seeing that the police were dealing with the case, the middle-aged woman readily agreed.
But my heart was terrified.
The main reason is to see these four policemen conducting various carpet-based investigations in the men's hotel, and feel that this tenant seems to have committed some serious crime.
But the middle-aged woman didn't dare to ask, feeling that if she asked, she was asking for trouble.
On the other side, just to be on the safe side, Gu Chen and the others did not give up, and continued to operate the surveillance screen to capture the situation of the other two tenants who checked out at noon today.
In the monitoring screen, both of them went out at 8:00 a.m. and have not returned yet.
Lu Weiwei asked the middle-aged woman: "These two Guangdong customers who have lived here for a long time, but will be checking out at noon today, call and ask them to come over."
"Okay." The middle-aged woman didn't pause. As soon as Lu Weiwei finished speaking, she picked up the landline at the front desk, and started calling according to the phone prompts recorded on the computer screen.
Unlike this tenant from Hubei Province, the tenant from Guangdong Province, after a few short "du" calls, someone answered the phone directly.
"Hi, hello, is this Mr. Gan? This is the Wangchao Town Hotel. Yes, where are you now? Can you come back quickly?"
Glancing at Gu Chen and the others beside her, the middle-aged woman hurriedly said, "A few policemen are looking for you, yes, right now, if you are still in Wangchao Town, come here quickly, okay? It's right here at the front desk. right."
After a brief pause for a few seconds, the middle-aged woman also nodded fiercely: "Okay, that's all right, come here quickly, we will wait for you here, um, okay."
After the words fell, the middle-aged woman felt relieved and said, "I can't get in touch with the tenant in Hubei province, but I have already helped you get in touch with the two customers in Guangdong province."
"They are currently at the site of the Blueberry Picking Festival in Wangchao Town, and they are rushing back now. Please sit here for a while, and I'll make you a cup of tea."
While speaking, the middle-aged woman began to guide Gu Chen and the others to rest on the sofa in the hall.
And I hurried to the water dispenser, made tea for everyone, and asked them to wait here for a while.
Not long after, when Gu Chen finished his cup of tea, two strong men with darker skin walked into the hall side by side.
When he caught sight of Gu Chen and the others on the sofa, one of them, a strong man wearing glasses, hurriedly asked the front desk: "Are they looking for us?"
"Yes." Seeing this, the middle-aged woman quickly stood up and introduced, "These are the policemen from the Criminal Investigation Team of Furong Branch of Jiangnan City. They are the ones looking for you."
"Okay." After being confirmed, the strong man wearing glasses also reminded the short-haired man next to him, and the two came to the sofa together.
At the same time, when Gu Chen and the others saw this, they also put their paper cups on the coffee table and stood up at the same time.
"Are you the tenants at point 204?" Gu Chen spoke first.
"That's right." The strong man wearing glasses looked Gu Chen up and down a few times before asking, "What do you want us for?"
"I want to know the purpose of the two of you coming here." Gu Chen said.
Seeing that the two were at a loss, Gu Chen hurriedly explained: "Please don't get me wrong, we are currently investigating a case involving some outsiders."
"I've checked your hotel records. You've all stayed here for 10 days. You're going to check out at noon today, right?"
"Yes." The short-cut man nodded fiercely, and also echoed:
"We are a channel e-commerce business. We came here to inspect blueberries and found that the blueberries here taste good and are of high quality, so we want to cooperate with local growers here to sell the blueberries here in Wangchao Town."
"Then why did you come here 10 days earlier and choose to leave today?" Lu Weiwei also expressed her doubts.
The man wearing glasses hurriedly replied: "Because the conditions for cooperation were not mature at that time, because 10 days later, that is, today, the 4th Blueberry Picking Festival of Wangchao Town will be held here."
"So, we want to see the effect here and see if it can help our channel e-commerce, so we are going to stay for half a day."
"Yes." Just as the man with glasses finished speaking, the man with a short cut quickly answered, "Your name is Gu Chen, right? Your performance at the poetry conference just now can be described as 'amazing'."
"From the very beginning, I have been watching the duel between you and the four great talents in Jiangnan City, until I saw you leave with victory."
"It can be said that this is the most wonderful anomalous poetry PK I have ever seen. It is simply amazing."
"Thank you." Faced with the flat-cut man's compliment, Gu Chen replied calmly, and then said:
"How can you prove that what you are saying now is true?"
"Uh!"
Also confused by Gu Chen's question, the two looked at each other, and then began to scratch the back of their heads.
The man with glasses thought for a while, then quickly took out a stack of crumpled documents from his backpack, handed them to Gu Chen and said:
"Officer Gu, this is the list of channels and contact information we purchase everywhere. You can take a look first to see if we are an e-commerce channel?"
After taking the document provided by the man with glasses, Gu Chen quickly started to read it.
However, when Gu Chen turned to the last page, he found that there were all kinds of handwritten remarks on these documents.
For example, for a fruit grower in a certain place, these two people will be on the outside of the list, specifically marking the various characteristics of this fruit grower.
For example, how is the fruit taste here better than other places? What are the characteristics?
Also, can the required goods be supplied in time, and the logistics and transportation are smooth? How long will it take?
All of these were written with a writing pen, densely handwritten and recorded on the periphery of the file form.
It's like a group of students analyzing texts.
Gu Chen closed the document and handed it to the man with glasses.
The man with glasses hurriedly asked, "Can you prove it now?"
"Yes." Seeing the solid evidence, Gu Chen did not make things difficult for the two of them.
However, will these two people take advantage of their identities as channel e-commerce? Engage in some shady dealings?
After all, these 10 days are not long or short for the two of them.
During these 10 days, the two can do many things.
Gu Chen has every reason to believe that they have enough time to engage in some illegal activities.
But for now, the evidence provided by the other party is sufficient, and Gu Chen has nothing to do with them for the time being.
So Gu Chen showed the surveillance footage of the man in Hubei province that was captured just now in front of the two of them and said, "This is the tenant of Room 208, do you know him?"
Upon hearing this, the two quickly bowed their bodies forward and began to observe carefully.
But after a while, neither of them came to a conclusion immediately, but reached a consensus in mutual eye contact.
The two looked at Gu Chen almost at the same time, then shook their heads in denial: "We don't know each other."
"You have lived in this hotel for so long, have you never met?" Lu Weiwei also expressed doubts about what the two said.
I feel that the small movements of the two looking at each other just now seem to be unable to escape my own eyes.
Lu Weiwei felt in her heart that there must be something tricky between these two.
The man with the glasses hesitated for a moment, then replied calmly: "Comrade policewoman, we did meet him near the hotel and passed him on occasion, but we didn't say hello and didn't know each other. That's it."
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"Don't move, raise your hands up." The little boy wearing a hood, holding a water gun, aimed at the old clock in a dignified manner.
Lao Zhong immediately grinned, and raised his hands high in cooperation.
However, even so, Lao Zhong couldn't avoid the result of being "shot", his chest was immediately squirted with a water gun by the little boy, and his shirt was soaked.
Old Zhong suddenly said in a bad mood: "Junjun, grandpa has already surrendered, how can you still shoot? This does not conform to the rules of the game."
"I don't care, I'm going to shoot." The little boy named Junjun, who cares about your rules and irregularities? Immediately, he frantically sips water on the old clock again.
"Little friend." Officer Wang grabbed the muzzle of the gun, immediately took off the little boy Junjun's hood, and asked him with a serious face, "Where did you get this hood?"
The little boy seemed to be taken aback by Police Officer Wang, and quickly ran behind Boss Zhong, lifted Boss Zhong's shirt, and stuck his head in.
Boss Zhong said "Aiyou" and quickly pulled the little boy out: "Junjun, what the hell are you doing?"
Junjun seemed a little afraid of Police Officer Wang, still holding Lao Zhong's thigh, sticking out half of his head, observing secretly.
"Is this your grandson?" Officer Wang asked while holding a hood.
"Yes, my grandson." Old Zhong said.
"Then what's going on with this headgear?" Officer Wang raised the headgear while speaking.
Old Zhong was taken aback, then smiled and said: "This? I don't know where he got this? It must have been picked up."
"Picked it up?" Lu Weiwei hurried to Officer Wang's side when she heard it, took the hood from Officer Wang's hand, and looked inside and out carefully.
After a while, Lu Weiwei whispered a little unsteadily: "It belongs to that group, and the style is basically the same."
"I know." Officer Wang also responded in a low voice.
Gu Chen and Yuan Shasha also came over, and they exchanged winks.
Lu Weiwei turned her head to come to Old Zhong, glanced at the little boy behind him, and said, "Junjun, don't be afraid, my sister has a question to ask you, is that okay?"
The little boy looked like he was three or four years old, and after thinking for a few seconds, he nodded silently, but didn't speak.
Lu Weiwei held the black hood in her hand and asked, "Is this yours?"
"Yeah." The little boy nodded childishly.
"Then where did you get this thing?" Lu Weiwei asked again.
The little boy replied, "I picked it up."
"Little friend, where did you pick this thing up? Can you show us?" Gu Chen also walked up to the little boy and knelt down to communicate with him.
The little boy was stunned, and couldn't help but look up at the old clock.
Lao Zhong was also a little puzzled, feeling that this group of people, why are they so interested in a black hood? Then he asked curiously, "What do you want this for?"
"Oh, that's right." Seeing this, Bai Xiaolan hurried over and explained, "Because Gu Chen and the others are policemen, they were investigating a case and arrested some people, so they wore this thing."
"So I saw you Sun Tzujun wearing this thing today, so I want to know more about it. Of course, don't get me wrong, they just want to confirm the source of this thing."
Bai Xiaolan was also earnest in all kinds of ways, and felt that Junjun's black hood really looked a little weird.
From the changes in the expressions of Gu Chen and the others just now, it is not difficult to see that they seem to be very important to Gu Chen and the others.
"Is that so?" After hearing Bai Xiaolan's statement, Lao Zhong was also quite puzzled, and said involuntarily:
"I really don't know about Junjun's headgear. Where did he get it?"
"Before, I thought it was the gang of speeders on motorcycles. Before they usually wear helmets, they would wear this black headgear made of card materials. I thought they lost it, and then it happened to be picked up by my army. arrive."
"For this reason, I was going to throw it away, but Junjun liked it very much, so I had no choice but to pick it up, wash it, and hand it to Junjun. Unexpectedly, he came here to play with a hood on today. "
"Is that so?" Hearing what Old Zhong said, Gu Chen glanced at Junjun behind him again, and asked him, "Junjun, is that so?"
"Yes." Junjun finally spoke, and he also voluntarily admitted.
"Then where did you meet? Can you take us there?" Gu Chen asked again.
"I just picked it up over there." Junjun hurriedly pointed out a location.
When everyone saw this, they all cast their gazes over.
Officer Wang hurriedly looked back at Old Zhong, and said, "Boss Zhong, do you think this is possible? Ask your family, Junjun, to take us there to have a look?"
"Of course." Although it felt a bit troublesome, Lao Zhong still took the initiative to agree because of face.
Afterwards, Lao Zhong brought Sun Tzu Junjun in front of him and reminded him, "Junjun, take these brothers and sisters to find the place where you picked up the black hood?"
"Okay." Junjun replied in a childish voice.
"Then let's go." Boss Zhong said.
Upon seeing this, Police Officer Wang also smiled embarrassedly and said, "How embarrassing, I will trouble you to take us there."
"Hey, where are you talking? I'm working with you. Besides, I'm fine now. My family lives in Wangchao Town. You can come to my house later."
"Then thank you very much, Boss Zhong." Liu Jingru also looked around, and hurriedly asked Boss Zhong, "Eh? Where's Teacher Wu?"
"Oh, Mr. Wu is still at the blueberry picking base, helping me make up the aerial photography. I'll ask him to come over later."
Several people chatted and laughed, and came to a complex of buildings in Wangchao Town.
At this moment, Boss Zhong pointed to a villa not far from the town and said, "That's my home, and you can go there by the path."
"My family Junjun, he picked it up near my house."
Hearing this, everyone suddenly became tense.
It seems that this mysterious person who is closely related to He Xu and Zhang Fan's criminal group is nearby.
Therefore, everyone is also more vigilant.
When he came to the door of Old Zhong's house, Boss Zhong said politely, "Come in and have a seat. My family members are probably still at the activity site in Wangchao Town."
"Boss Zhong's house is quite big." Liu Jingru looked around and said with a smile, "Living in this kind of place is really suitable for retirement."
"Isn't that right?" Boss Zhong said proudly when he heard Liu Jingru's remarks, "You didn't go to our old people's center in Wangchao Town. The construction there is better than here."
"Moreover, our Wangchao Town has a beautiful scenery. It is a natural tourist destination. Many tourists will come to us to live here for a long time in summer."
"That is to say, you usually accept foreign tourists to live here for a long time?" Gu Chen seemed to hear the problem from Lao Zhong's words.
In Gu Chen's previous impression, the mysterious person who was closely related to He Xu and Zhang Fan lived in Wangchao Town, and he was more like a local of Wangchao Town.
But now hearing what Lao Zhong said, Gu Chen felt that this mysterious person might not be a native of Wangchao Town, but just lived here for a long time.
Hearing what Gu Chen said, Lao Zhong also said truthfully: "That's right, there is a tourist reception center near our Wangchao Town, and there is a multifunctional hotel over there."
"There are almost all the supporting facilities inside. Usually, it mainly receives some foreign tourists, and also receives city inspection groups to come here for meetings and inspections."
"Anyway, the hotel in the reception center is very comfortable to live in, and the price is very affordable, so it often attracts foreign tourists to come here for vacation, especially in summer."
"Is the reception center far from here?" Gu Chen asked.
"It's not far, just go over to Boss Zhong's house, just go over there, go straight, see that flying red flag? It's there." After all, Liu Jingru came here, followed Wu Jun and Bai Xiaolan to drive around Wangchao Town casually. lock up.
Therefore, I am very familiar with some street layouts in Wangchao Town.
When Gu Chen asked, Liu Jingru was able to tell the direction very quickly.
When Old Zhong heard this, he smiled and said, "That's right, the place where the red flag is flying is the reception center of our Wangchao Town."
"Don't worry about that." Gu Chen knew the priority of the matter.
For now, the black hoods that everyone found from the little boy Junjun are indeed very similar to the hoods of the men in black that we met in Wangxian Valley that night.
Because everyone caught a fat old Chen among the group on Wangxian Valley Mountain. Judging from the style of the headgear seized from the fat old Chen, it was almost exactly the same as the one worn by the little boy.
That's why, when everyone saw the little boy wearing a black headgear playing with his grandfather, everyone could see the problem with the headgear at a glance, so they all raised their vigilance.
So Gu Chen said again: "Junjun, where exactly did you find the hood?"
"This way." Junjun is not afraid of Gu Chen and the others now, he immediately turned into a leader and led everyone to his backyard.
Not long after, Junjun pointed to a garbage recycling bin and said, "I picked it up here."
"What?"
"Trash dump?"
Seeing the direction Junjun was pointing at, everyone was stunned, feeling that this place seemed to be different from what everyone had imagined.
When Old Zhong heard this, he immediately looked at Junjun in disbelief, and asked, "Junjun, did you pick this thing up from the garbage dump?"
"En." The little boy Junjun nodded fiercely.
"But why didn't you say it earlier? You can't just pick up the things in this garbage dump, because there are bacteria."
"If I knew you picked it up from the garbage dump, I would definitely not have brought you home."
He was also very angry by his grandson, and Lao Zhong also looked helpless, feeling a little embarrassed.
Looking up at Gu Chen and the others, Old Zhong said again: "I'm sorry, comrade policeman, this Junjun of my family just said that he picked it up on the side of the road, and I didn't ask him where he picked it up. "
"If I knew it was in the garbage dump, I would never let him pick it up."
Speaking of this, Boss Zhong also said to himself: "Alas! This kid has been picking up things in the garbage dump since he was young, and he can't collect trash when he grows up."
Seeing the little boy Junjun, being blamed by his grandfather for not doing well, Lu Weiwei quickly squatted in front of Junjun, comforting the boy who wanted to cry:
"Junjun, it's okay, my sister asked you, did you really pick it up in this place? You didn't lie to my sister, did you?"
"No." Junjun replied in a childish voice.
"Then did you see who threw it here?" Lu Weiwei asked again.
Junjun nodded silently.
When Old Zhong saw it, his eyes lit up immediately, and he hurried up to his grandson, and asked scoldingly, "What? Did you see someone throw it here?"
"Yeah." The little boy Junjun replied in a childlike voice, "I saw him drop a bag of things here, and then I went over and saw this."
"I feel that this thing is very fun. Many bad guys on TV wear this thing, hold a gun, and then rush in all kinds of 'bang bang bang'."
In the end, the little boy Junjun did not forget to imitate the sound of shooting with his mouth.
Old Zhong was also speechless, and said: "Bad guy, these people on TV are all bad guys, how can you be a bad guy? If you want to be a good guy, you can't wear this thing, you know?"
He took two heavy breaths, and Lao Zhong was quite helpless, and said again: "Did you hear that?"
"Understood." The little boy Junjun seemed to feel the anger of his grandfather Zhong at this moment, and quickly became well-behaved in a second.
Gu Chen hurriedly asked: "Then you said just now, you saw the person throwing away the black hood, do you know who he is?"
"En." The little boy nodded silently, but after thinking about it, he quickly shook his head.
Lu Weiwei looked confused, and asked him curiously: "What does it mean to nod and shake your head? Do you know who that person is?"
"I……"
Just as the little boy Junjun wanted to speak, he subconsciously glanced at his grandfather Zhong, looked at everyone and shook his head and said, "I don't know him."
"Then can you describe the specific appearance of that person?" Liu Jingru said.
The little boy scratched the back of his head, then shook his head.
Liu Jingru was speechless: "Junjun, didn't you say it well just now? Didn't you say that you saw that person thrown in the trash, why did you suddenly say you didn't know?"
"I... I don't remember." The little boy Junjun seemed to have lost his memory for a short time.
This made the hope that everyone had just ignited instantly shattered.
Liu Jingru was speechless, she could only glance at Gu Chen and said, "Senior Gu Chen, this kid may have a bit of memory."
"It's okay." Regardless of these, Gu Chen squatted in front of Junjun again, and began to guide and said:
"Junjun, tell me, when did that man throw away the black hood?"
The little boy Junjun scratched the back of his head: "It seems to be night."
"Last night? Or the night before? Or which night?" Gu Chen asked again.
The little boy Junjun immediately glanced at his grandfather, like an old clock, and turned around and said, "The night before yesterday."
"Very good." Upon receiving the reply, Gu Chen touched Junjun's head and asked again: "The night before yesterday, what kind of clothes was that person wearing?"
"Hmm..." Junjun held back for a long time, then looked back at Grandpa Old Zhong again, pointed at his clothes and said, "Grandpa is like this."
Hearing his grandson's words, Lao Zhong frowned immediately, feeling like he was warning Junjun: "Junjun, have you seen it clearly? There are many people wearing clothes like Grandpa's, maybe you misread it."
"Boss Zhong." Seeing that Boss Zhong began to intervene in the conversation, Gu Chen hurriedly interrupted, "Please keep quiet, please?"
"Uh, this..." After thinking about it, his behavior was indeed inappropriate, so Lao Zhong also waved his hand: "Okay... okay, you guys continue."
"Junjun." Gu Chen turned Junjun around again, focused his eyes on himself, and then asked again: "That person is wearing the same clothes as your grandfather's, did you see clearly?"
"No." Junjun shook his head.
"Then how does he walk? Can you tell who it is from his walking habits?" Officer Wang asked him anxiously.
The little boy Junjun still shook his head: "I don't know."
"Hey boy." Officer Wang sighed, and said helplessly, "Then you know which direction he's going, right?"
"I know." Junjun nodded, and then quickly pointed to a path ahead.
And the end of this path is just in the direction of the hotel leading to the reception center of Wangchao Town.
"It really is there." Seeing that Junjun had already given the answer, Gu Chen hurriedly asked Junjun: "Junjun, if I show you the photo of that person, you can still recognize the person who threw away the black hood that night ?"
"Uh……"
Junjun seemed unsure, scratched the back of his head habitually, and then looked back at his grandfather, Old Zhong.
Old Zhong also said angrily: "Why do you always look at me? You always look at me as if that person is me?"
Lao Zhong was also told by Junjun's shirt of the same style just now, which made him quite embarrassed.
But Gu Chen hurriedly said comfortingly: "Boss Zhong, thank you very much for your cooperation, Sun Zijun. Maybe there will be troubles for you in the next work."
"Hey, what can I say? It's also my job to cooperate with you. If you need help, just say it. After all..."
Turning his head to look at Bai Xiaolan and Liu Jingru, Boss Zhong said again: "After all, you are friends of Xiaolan and Reporter Liu. I am already very grateful to them for helping me promote my blueberry planting base."
"As long as you need help in the future, you can directly find me in Wangchao Town, Zhong Fakui, remember."
"Yeah." Gu Chen nodded silently.
He had heard from Bai Xiaolan before that Lao Zhong had a lot of connections in Wangchao Town.
If you want to inquire about things in Wangchao Town, you can definitely go to Lao Zhong.
But now it seems that not only is it right to find Lao Zhong, but it is more reliable to find him, Sun Zijun.
If it weren't for this little boy wearing the same headgear worn by the Wangxiangu criminal gang, it would be difficult for everyone to have a direction for investigation.
But now it seems that the hotel in Wangchao Town Tourist Reception Center seems to be the breakthrough point for everyone.
After bidding farewell to Lao Zhong, Gu Chen asked Bai Xiaolan and Liu Jingru to return to the event site for the time being.
Gu Chen brought Lu Weiwei, Police Officer Wang and Yuan Shasha to the Tourist Reception Center.
It has to be said that the tourist reception center in Wangchao Town is a hotel structure as a whole, with blue tiles and white walls on the outside, and green lawns around the hotel.
The whole appearance looks very refreshing and simple.
Walking into the tourist reception center, a middle-aged woman was sitting there eating melon seeds.
Seeing four men and women walking towards her, the middle-aged woman immediately put down the melon seeds in her hand, stood up quickly and said, "Do you want to open a room?"
Gu Chen didn't answer the conversation, just looked at the surrounding environment, and then took out the people's police card from his pocket to reveal his identity.
"Oh, so it's comrade policeman, do you need any help from comrade policeman?"
"How many people are living here?" Gu Chen asked.
"More than 20." The middle-aged woman said.
"Are these 20 people living here for a long time? Or are they living here for a short time?" Lu Weiwei also hurriedly asked.
The middle-aged woman hesitated for a moment, and then began to try to remember.
After a while, the woman replied: "Generally speaking, most of them are short-term. Some have just arrived, and some have stayed for a day or two."
"But in terms of staying longer, there are quite a few."
"Can you call me the information of these few people?" Gu Chen said.
"Uh, this..." The middle-aged woman hesitated for a moment, but seeing that Gu Chen and the others were police officers, she reluctantly agreed:
"Okay, let me check for you, wait a moment."
After the voice fell, the woman began to operate the front desk computer a little strangely.
It didn't take long for the passenger's check-in information to appear on the screen.
Gu Chen and the others simply bypassed the front desk and came behind the middle-aged woman.
"This, this, and this, these three people, all lived for about 10 days."
"Two of them are about to arrive at noon today, and they have no request to continue to open the room. It is estimated that they will leave at noon today."
"As for the other one, he opened the room for three days, and maybe he will leave in three days."
"Did they open the room for such a long time at one time? Or did they open it day after day?" Police Officer Wang also asked in a pinch.
The middle-aged woman thought about it for a few seconds, and quickly said: "Basically the first two, that is, the tenants who will leave at noon today, they are all staying for one day and one day, they seem to be blueberry merchants."
"Because today is the fourth Blueberry Picking Festival in Wangchao Town, maybe they want to leave after participating in the Blueberry Picking Festival?"
"These two people are together, and they have a standard room. I met them this morning and asked if they want to extend the room?"
"They told me they might leave by noon."
"Where are you going?" Gu Chen asked.
"It seems to be Pengcheng, right? They are all tenants from Guangdong Province, and they all speak Cantonese, and Mandarin is not standard."
Gu Chen saw that Yuan Shasha was holding a body camera, recording the conversation just now.
Immediately, he took out his mobile phone and took a picture of the identity information of several tenants on the computer screen, and then asked the middle-aged woman:
"Then what about the other person? This person has been paying the room fee until three days after he checked in, right?"
"Yes, he's very talkative, and he looks rich. He's from Hubei Province. As soon as he came here, he made an appointment for three days." The middle-aged woman said.
"Then what is he doing?" Gu Chen asked again.
"Uh, it seems that he is also in business, right? But I also asked him, but he just smiled and didn't answer. I can't ask more questions, but I feel that the business is okay."
"What about others? Are they still in the room?" Yuan Shasha asked.
The middle-aged woman shook her head: "I'm not sure, maybe it's there, maybe it's not."
"Do you have the room card? Take us up there to have a look." Lu Weiwei was already very excited when she heard this.
This person seems to be very suitable for the mysterious person in Famous Nest Town that He Xu and Zhang Fan mentioned.
This person came to Wangchao Town, it seems that he came to do business.
And opening a room for more than ten days at a time is definitely not that simple.
But now the situation is urgent, and everyone needs to make a surprise attack to see if they can gain anything.
So Lu Weiwei asked the woman at the front desk to take everyone to the customer's room.
The middle-aged woman had no choice but to take out the room card from the drawer, and then led everyone up to the second floor.
At the corner of a corridor on the second floor, the middle-aged woman pointed to the side and said, "208, he lives here, I don't know if he's here or not."
"Knock on the door." Officer Wang urged.
"Tuk-tuk-tuk!" The middle-aged woman didn't talk nonsense, and knocked on the door three times: "Excuse me, is anyone there?"
Seeing no one answered, the middle-aged woman politely knocked on the door three times again, but there was still no movement at the scene.
This convinced everyone that the tenant was not here.
"Open the door." Officer Wang said impatiently.
The middle-aged woman did not hesitate, and directly used the room card to swipe the door.
As a burst of music sounded, the lock suddenly "clicked" and bounced open.
Officer Wang was the first to open the door and go in, and came to the direction of the bedroom.
Gu Chen, Lu Weiwei and Yuan Shasha followed closely behind.
Police officer Wang opened the curtains, and the scene was suddenly bright.
Everyone saw a suitcase in the corner of the room, which didn't seem to be locked.
Lu Weiwei didn't care too much, opened the suitcase and checked the various items in the suitcase.
However, there seemed to be no other suspicious objects in the suitcase except clothes.
After that, everyone started to conduct a carpet-like investigation of the entire room.
After a quick search of about 5 minutes, no one found anything unusual.
"Strange, isn't it him?" Lu Weiwei crossed her arms, a little puzzled.
Gu Chen reminded, "Just call and ask him to come over by himself, and let's ask him in person what's going on?"
"It's fine." It felt like this was the only way to go at the moment, so Lu Weiwei looked at the middle-aged woman who was standing at the door and said, "Call him, please, and ask him to come here immediately."
"Okay." The middle-aged woman nodded silently, intending to turn around and leave.
"Why are you going?" Officer Wang called her to stop.
"Call...Call, I don't know what his phone number is?" the middle-aged woman said.
Gu Chen felt a little helpless, so he could only show the picture of the computer information form he had just taken in front of her and said, "The phone is here, call now."
"Okay, please wait a moment." The middle-aged woman took out her mobile phone, and began to call the tenant based on Gu Chen's picture reference.
However, the phone rang over and over again, but there was no response.
After the third call was naturally hung up, the middle-aged woman felt a little helpless, looked up at Gu Chen and said, "Comrade police, this is the third call, no one answered?"
"When did he go out?" Gu Chen looked up anxiously and asked her.
"I... I don't know either." The middle-aged woman smiled wryly, and quickly explained:
"I'm just a small front desk, and I also take care of some cleaning work here."
"Our tourist reception center in Wangchao Town, this hotel is not large, and there are not many tenants staying in it, so I don't often stay at the front desk."
"As for when these people come in and out of the hotel? I don't care, and I don't want to."
"Is there surveillance?" Yuan Shasha raised her head and asked her after walking back and forth twice, "Should we be able to find the surveillance in the hotel?"
"Uh, monitoring? There is." The middle-aged woman doesn't seem to be good at this, but at least there is monitoring.
So everyone closed the door and followed the middle-aged woman again to the front desk on the first floor.
Afterwards, the middle-aged woman began to operate the mouse unfamiliarly, calling up the monitoring screen of the day.
Seeing the clumsy movements of the middle-aged woman, Lu Weiwei obviously didn't understand these things.
But for Lu Weiwei, because she often goes to the hotel to check the room and retrieve the monitoring, she has some experience in how to operate the hotel's monitoring system.
So after taking the middle-aged woman's mouse, Lu Weiwei quickly checked the hotel entry and exit situation that morning.
Police officer Wang asked the middle-aged woman to stand aside and was responsible for identifying the tenants in the surveillance.
Just when Lu Weiwei operated the mouse and called up one of the monitoring sections, the middle-aged woman suddenly stopped: "Listen."
"Tick!" Lu Weiwei obeyed, clicked pause, and asked, "Did you find it?"
"It's him, it's him." The middle-aged woman pointed to the computer screen and confirmed:
"This person is the tenant of 208, and he is also the tenant who has stayed in our hotel for the longest time."
Lu Weiwei clicked the mouse to enlarge the screen.
Immediately, a rather awkward cheek appeared on the screen.
Without further ado, Lu Weiwei took out her phone and took a picture.
Gu Chen glanced at the monitoring time and said, "You left the hotel at 7:00 am? What is this guy doing out so early?"
"I don't know." The middle-aged woman shook her head, but suddenly remembered something? So he hastened to say:
"Oh, by the way, he seems to often go out early in the morning, and I have been on night shift a few times, sleeping here at the front desk of the hotel."
"A few times, I saw him go out early in the morning and not come back until night. He seemed quite mysterious."
"If this person returns to the hotel, remember to notify us as soon as possible." As soon as the voice fell, Police Officer Wang directly wrote down his phone number on a post-it note and marked it as "Wang".
In the end, he tore off the sticky note, handed it to the middle-aged woman and said, "If you find this person coming back, remember to call us as soon as possible."
"This is my phone number, and remember to ask him to stay in the hotel and stop wandering around, waiting for our investigation."
"Oh, I see." Seeing that the police were dealing with the case, the middle-aged woman readily agreed.
But my heart was terrified.
The main reason is to see these four policemen conducting various carpet-based investigations in the men's hotel, and feel that this tenant seems to have committed some serious crime.
But the middle-aged woman didn't dare to ask, feeling that if she asked, she was asking for trouble.
On the other side, just to be on the safe side, Gu Chen and the others did not give up, and continued to operate the surveillance screen to capture the situation of the other two tenants who checked out at noon today.
In the monitoring screen, both of them went out at 8:00 a.m. and have not returned yet.
Lu Weiwei asked the middle-aged woman: "These two Guangdong customers who have lived here for a long time, but will be checking out at noon today, call and ask them to come over."
"Okay." The middle-aged woman didn't pause. As soon as Lu Weiwei finished speaking, she picked up the landline at the front desk, and started calling according to the phone prompts recorded on the computer screen.
Unlike this tenant from Hubei Province, the tenant from Guangdong Province, after a few short "du" calls, someone answered the phone directly.
"Hi, hello, is this Mr. Gan? This is the Wangchao Town Hotel. Yes, where are you now? Can you come back quickly?"
Glancing at Gu Chen and the others beside her, the middle-aged woman hurriedly said, "A few policemen are looking for you, yes, right now, if you are still in Wangchao Town, come here quickly, okay? It's right here at the front desk. right."
After a brief pause for a few seconds, the middle-aged woman also nodded fiercely: "Okay, that's all right, come here quickly, we will wait for you here, um, okay."
After the words fell, the middle-aged woman felt relieved and said, "I can't get in touch with the tenant in Hubei province, but I have already helped you get in touch with the two customers in Guangdong province."
"They are currently at the site of the Blueberry Picking Festival in Wangchao Town, and they are rushing back now. Please sit here for a while, and I'll make you a cup of tea."
While speaking, the middle-aged woman began to guide Gu Chen and the others to rest on the sofa in the hall.
And I hurried to the water dispenser, made tea for everyone, and asked them to wait here for a while.
Not long after, when Gu Chen finished his cup of tea, two strong men with darker skin walked into the hall side by side.
When he caught sight of Gu Chen and the others on the sofa, one of them, a strong man wearing glasses, hurriedly asked the front desk: "Are they looking for us?"
"Yes." Seeing this, the middle-aged woman quickly stood up and introduced, "These are the policemen from the Criminal Investigation Team of Furong Branch of Jiangnan City. They are the ones looking for you."
"Okay." After being confirmed, the strong man wearing glasses also reminded the short-haired man next to him, and the two came to the sofa together.
At the same time, when Gu Chen and the others saw this, they also put their paper cups on the coffee table and stood up at the same time.
"Are you the tenants at point 204?" Gu Chen spoke first.
"That's right." The strong man wearing glasses looked Gu Chen up and down a few times before asking, "What do you want us for?"
"I want to know the purpose of the two of you coming here." Gu Chen said.
Seeing that the two were at a loss, Gu Chen hurriedly explained: "Please don't get me wrong, we are currently investigating a case involving some outsiders."
"I've checked your hotel records. You've all stayed here for 10 days. You're going to check out at noon today, right?"
"Yes." The short-cut man nodded fiercely, and also echoed:
"We are a channel e-commerce business. We came here to inspect blueberries and found that the blueberries here taste good and are of high quality, so we want to cooperate with local growers here to sell the blueberries here in Wangchao Town."
"Then why did you come here 10 days earlier and choose to leave today?" Lu Weiwei also expressed her doubts.
The man wearing glasses hurriedly replied: "Because the conditions for cooperation were not mature at that time, because 10 days later, that is, today, the 4th Blueberry Picking Festival of Wangchao Town will be held here."
"So, we want to see the effect here and see if it can help our channel e-commerce, so we are going to stay for half a day."
"Yes." Just as the man with glasses finished speaking, the man with a short cut quickly answered, "Your name is Gu Chen, right? Your performance at the poetry conference just now can be described as 'amazing'."
"From the very beginning, I have been watching the duel between you and the four great talents in Jiangnan City, until I saw you leave with victory."
"It can be said that this is the most wonderful anomalous poetry PK I have ever seen. It is simply amazing."
"Thank you." Faced with the flat-cut man's compliment, Gu Chen replied calmly, and then said:
"How can you prove that what you are saying now is true?"
"Uh!"
Also confused by Gu Chen's question, the two looked at each other, and then began to scratch the back of their heads.
The man with glasses thought for a while, then quickly took out a stack of crumpled documents from his backpack, handed them to Gu Chen and said:
"Officer Gu, this is the list of channels and contact information we purchase everywhere. You can take a look first to see if we are an e-commerce channel?"
After taking the document provided by the man with glasses, Gu Chen quickly started to read it.
However, when Gu Chen turned to the last page, he found that there were all kinds of handwritten remarks on these documents.
For example, for a fruit grower in a certain place, these two people will be on the outside of the list, specifically marking the various characteristics of this fruit grower.
For example, how is the fruit taste here better than other places? What are the characteristics?
Also, can the required goods be supplied in time, and the logistics and transportation are smooth? How long will it take?
All of these were written with a writing pen, densely handwritten and recorded on the periphery of the file form.
It's like a group of students analyzing texts.
Gu Chen closed the document and handed it to the man with glasses.
The man with glasses hurriedly asked, "Can you prove it now?"
"Yes." Seeing the solid evidence, Gu Chen did not make things difficult for the two of them.
However, will these two people take advantage of their identities as channel e-commerce? Engage in some shady dealings?
After all, these 10 days are not long or short for the two of them.
During these 10 days, the two can do many things.
Gu Chen has every reason to believe that they have enough time to engage in some illegal activities.
But for now, the evidence provided by the other party is sufficient, and Gu Chen has nothing to do with them for the time being.
So Gu Chen showed the surveillance footage of the man in Hubei province that was captured just now in front of the two of them and said, "This is the tenant of Room 208, do you know him?"
Upon hearing this, the two quickly bowed their bodies forward and began to observe carefully.
But after a while, neither of them came to a conclusion immediately, but reached a consensus in mutual eye contact.
The two looked at Gu Chen almost at the same time, then shook their heads in denial: "We don't know each other."
"You have lived in this hotel for so long, have you never met?" Lu Weiwei also expressed doubts about what the two said.
I feel that the small movements of the two looking at each other just now seem to be unable to escape my own eyes.
Lu Weiwei felt in her heart that there must be something tricky between these two.
The man with the glasses hesitated for a moment, then replied calmly: "Comrade policewoman, we did meet him near the hotel and passed him on occasion, but we didn't say hello and didn't know each other. That's it."
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"Don't move, raise your hands up." The little boy wearing a hood, holding a water gun, aimed at the old clock in a dignified manner. Lao Zhong immediately grinned, and raised his hands high in cooperation. However, even so, Lao Zhong couldn't avoid the result of being "shot", his chest was immediately squirted with a water gun by the little boy, and his shirt was soaked. Old Zhong suddenly said in a bad mood: "Junjun, grandpa has already surrendered, how can you still shoot? This does not conform to the rules of the game." "I don't care, I'm going to shoot." The little boy named Junjun, who cares about your rules and irregularities? Immediately, he frantically sips water on the old clock again. "Little friend." Officer Wang grabbed the muzzle of the gun, immediately took off the little boy Junjun's hood, and asked him with a serious face, "Where did you get this hood?" The little boy seemed to be taken aback by Police Officer Wang, and quickly ran behind Boss Zhong, lifted Boss Zhong's shirt, and stuck his head in. Boss Zhong said "Aiyou" and quickly pulled the little boy out: "Junjun, what the hell are you doing?" Junjun seemed a little afraid of Police Officer Wang, still holding Lao Zhong's thigh, sticking out half of his head, observing secretly. "Is this your grandson?" Officer Wang asked while holding a hood. "Yes, my grandson." Old Zhong said. "Then what's going on with this headgear?" Officer Wang raised the headgear while speaking. Old Zhong was taken aback, then smiled and said: "This? I don't know where he got this? It must have been picked up." "Picked it up?" Lu Weiwei hurried to Officer Wang's side when she heard it, took the hood from Officer Wang's hand, and looked inside and out carefully. After a while, Lu Weiwei whispered a little unsteadily: "It belongs to that group, and the style is basically the same." "I know." Officer Wang also responded in a low voice. Gu Chen and Yuan Shasha also came over, and they exchanged winks. Lu Weiwei turned her head to come to Old Zhong, glanced at the little boy behind him, and said, "Junjun, don't be afraid, my sister has a question to ask you, is that okay?" The little boy looked like he was three or four years old, and after thinking for a few seconds, he nodded silently, but didn't speak. Lu Weiwei held the black hood in her hand and asked, "Is this yours?" "Yeah." The little boy nodded childishly. "Then where did you get this thing?" Lu Weiwei asked again. The little boy replied, "I picked it up." "Little friend, where did you pick this thing up? Can you show us?" Gu Chen also walked up to the little boy and knelt down to communicate with him. The little boy was stunned, and couldn't help but look up at the old clock. Lao Zhong was also a little puzzled, feeling that this group of people, why are they so interested in a black hood? Then he asked curiously, "What do you want this for?" "Oh, that's right." Seeing this, Bai Xiaolan hurried over and explained, "Because Gu Chen and the others are policemen, they were investigating a case and arrested some people, so they wore this thing." "So I saw you Sun Tzujun wearing this thing today, so I want to know more about it. Of course, don't get me wrong, they just want to confirm the source of this thing." Bai Xiaolan was also earnest in all kinds of ways, and felt that Junjun's black hood really looked a little weird. From the changes in the expressions of Gu Chen and the others just now, it is not difficult to see that they seem to be very important to Gu Chen and the others. "Is that so?" After hearing Bai Xiaolan's statement, Lao Zhong was also quite puzzled, and said involuntarily: "I really don't know about Junjun's headgear. Where did he get it?" "Before, I thought it was the gang of speeders on motorcycles. Before they usually wear helmets, they would wear this black headgear made of card materials. I thought they lost it, and then it happened to be picked up by my army. arrive." "For this reason, I was going to throw it away, but Junjun liked it very much, so I had no choice but to pick it up, wash it, and hand it to Junjun. Unexpectedly, he came here to play with a hood on today. " "Is that so?" Hearing what Old Zhong said, Gu Chen glanced at Junjun behind him again, and asked him, "Junjun, is that so?" "Yes." Junjun finally spoke, and he also voluntarily admitted. "Then where did you meet? Can you take us there?" Gu Chen asked again. "I just picked it up over there." Junjun hurriedly pointed out a location. When everyone saw this, they all cast their gazes over. Officer Wang hurriedly looked back at Old Zhong, and said, "Boss Zhong, do you think this is possible? Ask your family, Junjun, to take us there to have a look?" "Of course." Although it felt a bit troublesome, Lao Zhong still took the initiative to agree because of face. Afterwards, Lao Zhong brought Sun Tzu Junjun in front of him and reminded him, "Junjun, take these brothers and sisters to find the place where you picked up the black hood?" "Okay." Junjun replied in a childish voice. "Then let's go." Boss Zhong said. Upon seeing this, Police Officer Wang also smiled embarrassedly and said, "How embarrassing, I will trouble you to take us there." "Hey, where are you talking? I'm working with you. Besides, I'm fine now. My family lives in Wangchao Town. You can come to my house later." "Then thank you very much, Boss Zhong." Liu Jingru also looked around, and hurriedly asked Boss Zhong, "Eh? Where's Teacher Wu?" "Oh, Mr. Wu is still at the blueberry picking base, helping me make up the aerial photography. I'll ask him to come over later." Several people chatted and laughed, and came to a complex of buildings in Wangchao Town. At this moment, Boss Zhong pointed to a villa not far from the town and said, "That's my home, and you can go there by the path." "My family Junjun, he picked it up near my house." Hearing this, everyone suddenly became tense. It seems that this mysterious person who is closely related to He Xu and Zhang Fan's criminal group is nearby. Therefore, everyone is also more vigilant. When he came to the door of Old Zhong's house, Boss Zhong said politely, "Come in and have a seat. My family members are probably still at the activity site in Wangchao Town." "Boss Zhong's house is quite big." Liu Jingru looked around and said with a smile, "Living in this kind of place is really suitable for retirement." "Isn't that right?" Boss Zhong said proudly when he heard Liu Jingru's remarks, "You didn't go to our old people's center in Wangchao Town. The construction there is better than here." "Moreover, our Wangchao Town has a beautiful scenery. It is a natural tourist destination. Many tourists will come to us to live here for a long time in summer." "That is to say, you usually accept foreign tourists to live here for a long time?" Gu Chen seemed to hear the problem from Lao Zhong's words. In Gu Chen's previous impression, the mysterious person who was closely related to He Xu and Zhang Fan lived in Wangchao Town, and he was more like a local of Wangchao Town. But now hearing what Lao Zhong said, Gu Chen felt that this mysterious person might not be a native of Wangchao Town, but just lived here for a long time. Hearing what Gu Chen said, Lao Zhong also said truthfully: "That's right, there is a tourist reception center near our Wangchao Town, and there is a multifunctional hotel over there." "There are almost all the supporting facilities inside. Usually, it mainly receives some foreign tourists, and also receives city inspection groups to come here for meetings and inspections." "Anyway, the hotel in the reception center is very comfortable to live in, and the price is very affordable, so it often attracts foreign tourists to come here for vacation, especially in summer." "Is the reception center far from here?" Gu Chen asked. "It's not far, just go over to Boss Zhong's house, just go over there, go straight, see that flying red flag? It's there." After all, Liu Jingru came here, followed Wu Jun and Bai Xiaolan to drive around Wangchao Town casually. lock up. Therefore, I am very familiar with some street layouts in Wangchao Town. When Gu Chen asked, Liu Jingru was able to tell the direction very quickly. When Old Zhong heard this, he smiled and said, "That's right, the place where the red flag is flying is the reception center of our Wangchao Town." "Don't worry about that." Gu Chen knew the priority of the matter. For now, the black hoods that everyone found from the little boy Junjun are indeed very similar to the hoods of the men in black that we met in Wangxian Valley that night. Because everyone caught a fat old Chen among the group on Wangxian Valley Mountain. Judging from the style of the headgear seized from the fat old Chen, it was almost exactly the same as the one worn by the little boy. That's why, when everyone saw the little boy wearing a black headgear playing with his grandfather, everyone could see the problem with the headgear at a glance, so they all raised their vigilance. So Gu Chen said again: "Junjun, where exactly did you find the hood?" "This way." Junjun is not afraid of Gu Chen and the others now, he immediately turned into a leader and led everyone to his backyard. Not long after, Junjun pointed to a garbage recycling bin and said, "I picked it up here." "What?" "Trash dump?" Seeing the direction Junjun was pointing at, everyone was stunned, feeling that this place seemed to be different from what everyone had imagined. When Old Zhong heard this, he immediately looked at Junjun in disbelief, and asked, "Junjun, did you pick this thing up from the garbage dump?" "En." The little boy Junjun nodded fiercely. "But why didn't you say it earlier? You can't just pick up the things in this garbage dump, because there are bacteria." "If I knew you picked it up from the garbage dump, I would definitely not have brought you home." He was also very angry by his grandson, and Lao Zhong also looked helpless, feeling a little embarrassed. Looking up at Gu Chen and the others, Old Zhong said again: "I'm sorry, comrade policeman, this Junjun of my family just said that he picked it up on the side of the road, and I didn't ask him where he picked it up. " "If I knew it was in the garbage dump, I would never let him pick it up." Speaking of this, Boss Zhong also said to himself: "Alas! This kid has been picking up things in the garbage dump since he was young, and he can't collect trash when he grows up." Seeing the little boy Junjun, being blamed by his grandfather for not doing well, Lu Weiwei quickly squatted in front of Junjun, comforting the boy who wanted to cry: "Junjun, it's okay, my sister asked you, did you really pick it up in this place? You didn't lie to my sister, did you?" "No." Junjun replied in a childish voice. "Then did you see who threw it here?" Lu Weiwei asked again. Junjun nodded silently. When Old Zhong saw it, his eyes lit up immediately, and he hurried up to his grandson, and asked scoldingly, "What? Did you see someone throw it here?" "Yeah." The little boy Junjun replied in a childlike voice, "I saw him drop a bag of things here, and then I went over and saw this." "I feel that this thing is very fun. Many bad guys on TV wear this thing, hold a gun, and then rush in all kinds of 'bang bang bang'." In the end, the little boy Junjun did not forget to imitate the sound of shooting with his mouth. Old Zhong was also speechless, and said: "Bad guy, these people on TV are all bad guys, how can you be a bad guy? If you want to be a good guy, you can't wear this thing, you know?" He took two heavy breaths, and Lao Zhong was quite helpless, and said again: "Did you hear that?" "Understood." The little boy Junjun seemed to feel the anger of his grandfather Zhong at this moment, and quickly became well-behaved in a second. Gu Chen hurriedly asked: "Then you said just now, you saw the person throwing away the black hood, do you know who he is?" "En." The little boy nodded silently, but after thinking about it, he quickly shook his head. Lu Weiwei looked confused, and asked him curiously: "What does it mean to nod and shake your head? Do you know who that person is?" "I" Just as the little boy Junjun wanted to speak, he subconsciously glanced at his grandfather Zhong, looked at everyone and shook his head and said, "I don't know him." "Then can you describe the specific appearance of that person?" Liu Jingru said. The little boy scratched the back of his head, then shook his head. Liu Jingru was speechless: "Junjun, didn't you say it well just now? Didn't you say that you saw that person thrown in the trash, why did you suddenly say you didn't know?" "I... I don't remember." The little boy Junjun seemed to have lost his memory for a short time. This made the hope that everyone had just ignited instantly shattered. Liu Jingru was speechless, she could only glance at Gu Chen and said, "Senior Gu Chen, this kid may have a bit of memory." "It's okay." Regardless of these, Gu Chen squatted in front of Junjun again, and began to guide and said: "Junjun, tell me, when did that man throw away the black hood?" The little boy Junjun scratched the back of his head: "It seems to be night." "Last night? Or the night before? Or which night?" Gu Chen asked again. The little boy Junjun immediately glanced at his grandfather, like an old clock, and turned around and said, "The night before yesterday." "Very good." Upon receiving the reply, Gu Chen touched Junjun's head and asked again: "The night before yesterday, what kind of clothes was that person wearing?" "Hmm..." Junjun held back for a long time, then looked back at Grandpa Old Zhong again, pointed at his clothes and said, "Grandpa is like this." Hearing his grandson's words, Lao Zhong frowned immediately, feeling like he was warning Junjun: "Junjun, have you seen it clearly? There are many people wearing clothes like Grandpa's, maybe you misread it." "Boss Zhong." Seeing that Boss Zhong began to intervene in the conversation, Gu Chen hurriedly interrupted, "Please keep quiet, please?" "Uh, this..." After thinking about it, his behavior was indeed inappropriate, so Lao Zhong also waved his hand: "Okay... okay, you guys continue." "Junjun." Gu Chen turned Junjun around again, focused his eyes on himself, and then asked again: "That person is wearing the same clothes as your grandfather's, did you see clearly?" "No." Junjun shook his head. "Then how does he walk? Can you tell who it is from his walking habits?" Officer Wang asked him anxiously. The little boy Junjun still shook his head: "I don't know." "Hey boy." Officer Wang sighed, and said helplessly, "Then you know which direction he's going, right?" "I know." Junjun nodded, and then quickly pointed to a path ahead. And the end of this path is just in the direction of the hotel leading to the reception center of Wangchao Town. "It really is there." Seeing that Junjun had already given the answer, Gu Chen hurriedly asked Junjun: "Junjun, if I show you the photo of that person, you can still recognize the person who threw away the black hood that night ?" "Uh" Junjun seemed unsure, scratched the back of his head habitually, and then looked back at his grandfather, Old Zhong. Old Zhong also said angrily: "Why do you always look at me? You always look at me as if that person is me?" Lao Zhong was also told by Junjun's shirt of the same style just now, which made him quite embarrassed. But Gu Chen hurriedly said comfortingly: "Boss Zhong, thank you very much for your cooperation, Sun Zijun. Maybe there will be troubles for you in the next work." "Hey, what can I say? It's also my job to cooperate with you. If you need help, just say it. After all..." Turning his head to look at Bai Xiaolan and Liu Jingru, Boss Zhong said again: "After all, you are friends of Xiaolan and Reporter Liu. I am already very grateful to them for helping me promote my blueberry planting base." "As long as you need help in the future, you can directly find me in Wangchao Town, Zhong Fakui, remember." "Yeah." Gu Chen nodded silently. He had heard from Bai Xiaolan before that Lao Zhong had a lot of connections in Wangchao Town. If you want to inquire about things in Wangchao Town, you can definitely go to Lao Zhong. But now it seems that not only is it right to find Lao Zhong, but it is more reliable to find him, Sun Zijun. If it weren't for this little boy wearing the same headgear worn by the Wangxiangu criminal gang, it would be difficult for everyone to have a direction for investigation. But now it seems that the hotel in Wangchao Town Tourist Reception Center seems to be the breakthrough point for everyone. After bidding farewell to Lao Zhong, Gu Chen asked Bai Xiaolan and Liu Jingru to return to the event site for the time being. Gu Chen brought Lu Weiwei, Police Officer Wang and Yuan Shasha to the Tourist Reception Center. It has to be said that the tourist reception center in Wangchao Town is a hotel structure as a whole, with blue tiles and white walls on the outside, and green lawns around the hotel. The whole appearance looks very refreshing and simple. Walking into the tourist reception center, a middle-aged woman was sitting there eating melon seeds. Seeing four men and women walking towards her, the middle-aged woman immediately put down the melon seeds in her hand, stood up quickly and said, "Do you want to open a room?" Gu Chen didn't answer the conversation, just looked at the surrounding environment, and then took out the people's police card from his pocket to reveal his identity. "Oh, so it's comrade policeman, do you need any help from comrade policeman?" "How many people are living here?" Gu Chen asked. "More than 20." The middle-aged woman said. "Are these 20 people living here for a long time? Or are they living here for a short time?" Lu Weiwei also hurriedly asked. The middle-aged woman hesitated for a moment, and then began to try to remember. After a while, the woman replied: "Generally speaking, most of them are short-term. Some have just arrived, and some have stayed for a day or two." "But in terms of staying longer, there are quite a few." "Can you call me the information of these few people?" Gu Chen said. "Uh, this..." The middle-aged woman hesitated for a moment, but seeing that Gu Chen and the others were police officers, she reluctantly agreed: "Okay, let me check for you, wait a moment." After the voice fell, the woman began to operate the front desk computer a little strangely. It didn't take long for the passenger's check-in information to appear on the screen. Gu Chen and the others simply bypassed the front desk and came behind the middle-aged woman. "This, this, and this, these three people, all lived for about 10 days." "Two of them are about to arrive at noon today, and they have no request to continue to open the room. It is estimated that they will leave at noon today." "As for the other one, he opened the room for three days, and maybe he will leave in three days." "Did they open the room for such a long time at one time? Or did they open it day after day?" Police Officer Wang also asked in a pinch. The middle-aged woman thought about it for a few seconds, and quickly said: "Basically the first two, that is, the tenants who will leave at noon today, they are all staying for one day and one day, they seem to be blueberry merchants." "Because today is the fourth Blueberry Picking Festival in Wangchao Town, maybe they want to leave after participating in the Blueberry Picking Festival?" "These two people are together, and they have a standard room. I met them this morning and asked if they want to extend the room?" "They told me they might leave by noon." "Where are you going?" Gu Chen asked. "It seems to be Pengcheng, right? They are all tenants from Guangdong Province, and they all speak Cantonese, and Mandarin is not standard." Gu Chen saw that Yuan Shasha was holding a body camera, recording the conversation just now. Immediately, he took out his mobile phone and took a picture of the identity information of several tenants on the computer screen, and then asked the middle-aged woman: "Then what about the other person? This person has been paying the room fee until three days after he checked in, right?" "Yes, he's very talkative, and he looks rich. He's from Hubei Province. As soon as he came here, he made an appointment for three days." The middle-aged woman said. "Then what is he doing?" Gu Chen asked again. "Uh, it seems that he is also in business, right? But I also asked him, but he just smiled and didn't answer. I can't ask more questions, but I feel that the business is okay." "What about others? Are they still in the room?" Yuan Shasha asked. The middle-aged woman shook her head: "I'm not sure, maybe it's there, maybe it's not." "Do you have the room card? Take us up there to have a look." Lu Weiwei was already very excited when she heard this. This person seems to be very suitable for the mysterious person in Famous Nest Town that He Xu and Zhang Fan mentioned. This person came to Wangchao Town, it seems that he came to do business. And opening a room for more than ten days at a time is definitely not that simple. But now the situation is urgent, and everyone needs to make a surprise attack to see if they can gain anything. So Lu Weiwei asked the woman at the front desk to take everyone to the customer's room. The middle-aged woman had no choice but to take out the room card from the drawer, and then led everyone up to the second floor. At the corner of a corridor on the second floor, the middle-aged woman pointed to the side and said, "208, he lives here, I don't know if he's here or not." "Knock on the door." Officer Wang urged. "Tuk-tuk-tuk!" The middle-aged woman didn't talk nonsense, and knocked on the door three times: "Excuse me, is anyone there?" Seeing no one answered, the middle-aged woman politely knocked on the door three times again, but there was still no movement at the scene. This convinced everyone that the tenant was not here. "Open the door." Officer Wang said impatiently. The middle-aged woman did not hesitate, and directly used the room card to swipe the door. As a burst of music sounded, the lock suddenly "clicked" and bounced open. Officer Wang was the first to open the door and go in, and came to the direction of the bedroom. Gu Chen, Lu Weiwei and Yuan Shasha followed closely behind. Police officer Wang opened the curtains, and the scene was suddenly bright. Everyone saw a suitcase in the corner of the room, which didn't seem to be locked. Lu Weiwei didn't care too much, opened the suitcase and checked the various items in the suitcase. However, there seemed to be no other suspicious objects in the suitcase except clothes. After that, everyone started to conduct a carpet-like investigation of the entire room. After a quick search of about 5 minutes, no one found anything unusual. "Strange, isn't it him?" Lu Weiwei crossed her arms, a little puzzled. Gu Chen reminded, "Just call and ask him to come over by himself, and let's ask him in person what's going on?" "It's fine." It felt like this was the only way to go at the moment, so Lu Weiwei looked at the middle-aged woman who was standing at the door and said, "Call him, please, and ask him to come here immediately." "Okay." The middle-aged woman nodded silently, intending to turn around and leave. "Why are you going?" Officer Wang called her to stop. "Call...Call, I don't know what his phone number is?" the middle-aged woman said. Gu Chen felt a little helpless, so he could only show the picture of the computer information form he had just taken in front of her and said, "The phone is here, call now." "Okay, please wait a moment." The middle-aged woman took out her mobile phone, and began to call the tenant based on Gu Chen's picture reference. However, the phone rang over and over again, but there was no response. After the third call was naturally hung up, the middle-aged woman felt a little helpless, looked up at Gu Chen and said, "Comrade police, this is the third call, no one answered?" "When did he go out?" Gu Chen looked up anxiously and asked her. "I... I don't know either." The middle-aged woman smiled wryly, and quickly explained: "I'm just a small front desk, and I also take care of some cleaning work here." "Our tourist reception center in Wangchao Town, this hotel is not large, and there are not many tenants staying in it, so I don't often stay at the front desk." "As for when these people come in and out of the hotel? I don't care, and I don't want to." "Is there surveillance?" Yuan Shasha raised her head and asked her after walking back and forth twice, "Should we be able to find the surveillance in the hotel?" "Uh, monitoring? There is." The middle-aged woman doesn't seem to be good at this, but at least there is monitoring. So everyone closed the door and followed the middle-aged woman again to the front desk on the first floor. Afterwards, the middle-aged woman began to operate the mouse unfamiliarly, calling up the monitoring screen of the day. Seeing the clumsy movements of the middle-aged woman, Lu Weiwei obviously didn't understand these things. But for Lu Weiwei, because she often goes to the hotel to check the room and retrieve the monitoring, she has some experience in how to operate the hotel's monitoring system. So after taking the middle-aged woman's mouse, Lu Weiwei quickly checked the hotel entry and exit situation that morning. Police officer Wang asked the middle-aged woman to stand aside and was responsible for identifying the tenants in the surveillance. Just when Lu Weiwei operated the mouse and called up one of the monitoring sections, the middle-aged woman suddenly stopped: "Listen." "Tick!" Lu Weiwei obeyed, clicked pause, and asked, "Did you find it?" "It's him, it's him." The middle-aged woman pointed to the computer screen and confirmed: "This person is the tenant of 208, and he is also the tenant who has stayed in our hotel for the longest time." Lu Weiwei clicked the mouse to enlarge the screen. Immediately, a rather awkward cheek appeared on the screen. Without further ado, Lu Weiwei took out her phone and took a picture. Gu Chen glanced at the monitoring time and said, "You left the hotel at 7:00 am? What is this guy doing out so early?" "I don't know." The middle-aged woman shook her head, but suddenly remembered something? So he hastened to say: "Oh, by the way, he seems to often go out early in the morning, and I have been on night shift a few times, sleeping here at the front desk of the hotel." "A few times, I saw him go out early in the morning and not come back until night. He seemed quite mysterious." "If this person returns to the hotel, remember to notify us as soon as possible." As soon as the voice fell, Police Officer Wang directly wrote down his phone number on a post-it note and marked it as "Wang". In the end, he tore off the sticky note, handed it to the middle-aged woman and said, "If you find this person coming back, remember to call us as soon as possible." "This is my phone number, and remember to ask him to stay in the hotel and stop wandering around, waiting for our investigation." "Oh, I see." Seeing that the police were dealing with the case, the middle-aged woman readily agreed. But my heart was terrified. The main reason is to see these four policemen conducting various carpet-based investigations in the men's hotel, and feel that this tenant seems to have committed some serious crime. But the middle-aged woman didn't dare to ask, feeling that if she asked, she was asking for trouble. On the other side, just to be on the safe side, Gu Chen and the others did not give up, and continued to operate the surveillance screen to capture the situation of the other two tenants who checked out at noon today. In the monitoring screen, both of them went out at 8:00 a.m. and have not returned yet. Lu Weiwei asked the middle-aged woman: "These two Guangdong customers who have lived here for a long time, but will be checking out at noon today, call and ask them to come over." "Okay." The middle-aged woman didn't pause. As soon as Lu Weiwei finished speaking, she picked up the landline at the front desk, and started calling according to the phone prompts recorded on the computer screen. Unlike this tenant from Hubei Province, the tenant from Guangdong Province, after a few short "du" calls, someone answered the phone directly. "Hi, hello, is this Mr. Gan? This is the Wangchao Town Hotel. Yes, where are you now? Can you come back quickly?" Glancing at Gu Chen and the others beside her, the middle-aged woman hurriedly said, "A few policemen are looking for you, yes, right now, if you are still in Wangchao Town, come here quickly, okay? It's right here at the front desk. right." After a brief pause for a few seconds, the middle-aged woman also nodded fiercely: "Okay, that's all right, come here quickly, we will wait for you here, um, okay." After the words fell, the middle-aged woman felt relieved and said, "I can't get in touch with the tenant in Hubei province, but I have already helped you get in touch with the two customers in Guangdong province." "They are currently at the site of the Blueberry Picking Festival in Wangchao Town, and they are rushing back now. Please sit here for a while, and I'll make you a cup of tea." While speaking, the middle-aged woman began to guide Gu Chen and the others to rest on the sofa in the hall. And I hurried to the water dispenser, made tea for everyone, and asked them to wait here for a while. Not long after, when Gu Chen finished his cup of tea, two strong men with darker skin walked into the hall side by side. When he caught sight of Gu Chen and the others on the sofa, one of them, a strong man wearing glasses, hurriedly asked the front desk: "Are they looking for us?" "Yes." Seeing this, the middle-aged woman quickly stood up and introduced, "These are the policemen from the Criminal Investigation Team of Furong Branch of Jiangnan City. They are the ones looking for you." "Okay." After being confirmed, the strong man wearing glasses also reminded the short-haired man next to him, and the two came to the sofa together. At the same time, when Gu Chen and the others saw this, they also put their paper cups on the coffee table and stood up at the same time. "Are you the tenants at point 204?" Gu Chen spoke first. "That's right." The strong man wearing glasses looked Gu Chen up and down a few times before asking, "What do you want us for?" "I want to know the purpose of the two of you coming here." Gu Chen said. Seeing that the two were at a loss, Gu Chen hurriedly explained: "Please don't get me wrong, we are currently investigating a case involving some outsiders." "I've checked your hotel records. You've all stayed here for 10 days. You're going to check out at noon today, right?" "Yes." The short-cut man nodded fiercely, and also echoed: "We are a channel e-commerce business. We came here to inspect blueberries and found that the blueberries here taste good and are of high quality, so we want to cooperate with local growers here to sell the blueberries here in Wangchao Town." "Then why did you come here 10 days earlier and choose to leave today?" Lu Weiwei also expressed her doubts. The man wearing glasses hurriedly replied: "Because the conditions for cooperation were not mature at that time, because 10 days later, that is, today, the 4th Blueberry Picking Festival of Wangchao Town will be held here." "So, we want to see the effect here and see if it can help our channel e-commerce, so we are going to stay for half a day." "Yes." Just as the man with glasses finished speaking, the man with a short cut quickly answered, "Your name is Gu Chen, right? Your performance at the poetry conference just now can be described as 'amazing'." "From the very beginning, I have been watching the duel between you and the four great talents in Jiangnan City, until I saw you leave with victory." "It can be said that this is the most wonderful anomalous poetry PK I have ever seen. It is simply amazing." "Thank you." Faced with the flat-cut man's compliment, Gu Chen replied calmly, and then said: "How can you prove that what you are saying now is true?" "Uh!" Also confused by Gu Chen's question, the two looked at each other, and then began to scratch the back of their heads. The man with glasses thought for a while, then quickly took out a stack of crumpled documents from his backpack, handed them to Gu Chen and said: "Officer Gu, this is the list of channels and contact information we purchase everywhere. You can take a look first to see if we are an e-commerce channel?" After taking the document provided by the man with glasses, Gu Chen quickly started to read it. However, when Gu Chen turned to the last page, he found that there were all kinds of handwritten remarks on these documents. For example, for a fruit grower in a certain place, these two people will be on the outside of the list, specifically marking the various characteristics of this fruit grower. For example, how is the fruit taste here better than other places? What are the characteristics? Also, can the required goods be supplied in time, and the logistics and transportation are smooth? How long will it take? All of these were written with a writing pen, densely handwritten and recorded on the periphery of the file form. It's like a group of students analyzing texts. Gu Chen closed the document and handed it to the man with glasses. The man with glasses hurriedly asked, "Can you prove it now?" "Yes." Seeing the solid evidence, Gu Chen did not make things difficult for the two of them. However, will these two people take advantage of their identities as channel e-commerce? Engage in some shady dealings? After all, these 10 days are not long or short for the two of them. During these 10 days, the two can do many things. Gu Chen has every reason to believe that they have enough time to engage in some illegal activities. But for now, the evidence provided by the other party is sufficient, and Gu Chen has nothing to do with them for the time being. So Gu Chen showed the surveillance footage of the man in Hubei province that was captured just now in front of the two of them and said, "This is the tenant of Room 208, do you know him?" Upon hearing this, the two quickly bowed their bodies forward and began to observe carefully. But after a while, neither of them came to a conclusion immediately, but reached a consensus in mutual eye contact. The two looked at Gu Chen almost at the same time, then shook their heads in denial: "We don't know each other." "You have lived in this hotel for so long, have you never met?" Lu Weiwei also expressed doubts about what the two said. I feel that the small movements of the two looking at each other just now seem to be unable to escape my own eyes. Lu Weiwei felt in her heart that there must be something tricky between these two. The man with the glasses hesitated for a moment, then replied calmly: "Comrade policewoman, we did meet him near the hotel and passed him on occasion, but we didn't say hello and didn't know each other. That's it." ...
